Eli Scheinman
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Eli Scheinman
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Loading … // Personal collection: https://t.co/7cCw6kIbx9. Senior Advisor @artbasel.
Katılım Eylül 2017
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Marc Andreessen (@pmarca): Airbnb could have been boutique booking software. Uber could have been taxi dispatch software. Tesla could have been self-driving software.
They decided to take over the entire industry instead:
"Silicon Valley between 1950 and 2010 was primarily just in the tools business.
You'd build a tool like an operating system or a disk drive, sell it to people, and they'd figure out what to do with it.
Then something changed.
Alternate universe Airbnb is just boutique booking software. A tiny little business building spreadsheet software. But Brian Chesky decided: we're going to go into the hospitality business and compete with hotels directly.
Uber and Lyft in the old world were just taxi dispatch software. In the new world, they're full transportation providers.
Tesla in the old world would have just been software for self-driving cars. In the new world, it builds the entire car.
Facebook, same thing. Prior to Facebook, if you built online ad software, you were selling it to media companies. Mark said: no. We're just going to beat the media company. We're going to build the entire thing.
That was the pivot point when the Valley's ambitions went from just building tools to going directly into incumbent industries.
And then AI makes that crystal clear. The winning AI companies are raising billions, tens of billions, in some cases hundreds of billions of dollars.
The old world of $10,000,000 or $50,000,000 — where VCs tap out — is just not relevant anymore."
David Senra@davidsenra
My conversation with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), co-founder of @a16z and Netscape. 0:00 Caffeine Heart Scare 0:56 Zero Introspection Mindset 3:24 Psychedelics and Founders 4:54 Motivation Beyond Happiness 7:18 Tech as Progress Engine 10:27 Founders Versus Managers 20:01 HP Intel Founder Legacy 21:32 Why Start the Firm 24:14 Venture Barbell Theory 28:57 JP Morgan Boutique Banking 30:02 Religion Split Wall Street 30:41 Barbell of Banking 31:42 Allen & Company Model 33:16 Planning the VC Firm 33:45 CAA Playbook Lessons 36:49 First Principles vs. Status Quo 39:03 Scaling Venture Capital 40:37 Private Equity and Mad Men 42:52 Valley Shifts to Full Stack 45:59 Meeting Jim Clark 48:53 Founder vs. Manager at SGI 54:20 Recruiting Dinner Story 56:58 Starting the Next Company 57:57 Nintendo Online Gamble 58:33 Building Mosaic Browser 59:45 NSFnet Commercial Ban 1:01:28 Eternal September Shift 1:03:11 Spam and Web Controversy 1:04:49 Mosaic Tech Support Flood 1:07:49 Netscape Business Model 1:09:05 Early Internet Skepticism 1:11:15 Moral Panic Pattern 1:13:08 Bicycle Face Story 1:14:48 Music Panic Examples 1:18:12 Lessons from Jim Clark 1:19:36 Clark Versus Barksdale 1:21:22 Tesla Versus Edison 1:23:00 Edison Digression Setup 1:23:13 AI Forecasting Myths 1:23:43 Edison Phonograph Lesson 1:25:11 Netscape Two Jims 1:29:11 Bottling Innovation 1:31:44 Elon Management Code 1:32:24 IBM Big Gray Cloud 1:37:12 Engineer First Truth 1:38:28 Bottlenecks and Speed 1:42:46 Milli Elon Metric 1:47:20 Starlink Side Project 1:49:10 Closing Includes paid partnerships.
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@typesfast ChatGPT is also a really great name said no one ever
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Whoever named Gemini at Google really named it.
In the mythology, the immortal twin gives up his immortality to save the life of his mortal twin.
It’s just like Google giving up 100% of its free cash flow to make sure Deepmind survives.
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Incredible work
Onkaos@onkaos__
As part of the Zero 10 initiative at @ArtBasel Hong Kong, we are happy to present the debut of SEAL, a new project by @robertalice_21. Built entirely on-chain, SEAL explores the historical connection between ancient Sinosphere collector seals and contemporary blockchain technology, reimagining provenance as a living, participatory system. 🔗 More information in the link below.
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Looking forward to this conversation with Sunny, Tony and Emi next week at Art Basel Hong Kong.
March 28 and free to attend.
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@ArtBasel opens next Wednesday to collectors 💫
Among the highlights at Booth Z4, Asprey Studio presents a new sculptural collection by @allseeingseneca, After Jade.
The presentation brings together 9 works — 2 digital paintings and 7 cast glass sculptures — exploring themes of cultural inheritance, transformation, and personal mythology through a dialogue between material and narrative.
Rooted in Seneca’s reimagining of traditional Chinese ritual objects, the works balance fragility and permanence, merging Eastern and Western visual languages.
Two of the sculptures are accompanied by paired digital paintings, extending the narrative into immersive, surreal worlds that frame and deepen the meaning of the physical pieces. Drawing on traditional Chinese ornament alongside the compositional language of Medieval and early Renaissance illuminated manuscripts, the paintings feature richly embellished borders and symbolic detailing, where central figures emerge as mythic protagonists within evolving narrative spaces.
Explore the entire collection via our website and in person next week
📍Booth Z4, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, 1 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
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Tamagotchi owner in 1997 🔴
Family man since 2008 🟢
Local BTC node since 2017 🟢
Local IPFS node since 2021 🟢
Local ETH validator node since 2023 🟢
Lifeforms caretaker @isthisanart_ til 2024 ⚪️
Secured a Network Maintenance @jonas_lund
nmcli device connect ftw
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@justinsuntron @opensea It looks like someone may have transferred them all to @raster_art and @gondixyz. Please check your wallets to make sure they are safe. 🙏
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Over the years when making art, it can get fragmented. Spread across platforms & posts. The people who contribute to it too. With the places we've relied on to house our creations shutting down, I wanted to see if I could figure out how to give this work and story a proper home.
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I think some of the existing delineations and definitions critically need reconsideration.
If you are thoughtfully and rigorously amplifying the work of important artistic practices, you should have the opportunity to present that to the world.
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@benroy Less talked about benefit of sauna / cold exposure is that you characteristically cannot use your dopamine devices and must experience the world as it exists in reality.
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I still think the key question of this decade is: what do you want more than dopamine? because there are infinite ways to waste life scrolling, sitting in group chats, having endless conversations with LLMs etc.
So what do you actually want? Are you doing the thing?
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Love the behind the scenes look at our recent ad.
Incredible work to deliver an important message: the average person is stuck inside an inadequate system, and they don’t realize there’s a way out. We're providing a way out.
Coinbase 🛡️@coinbase
NPCs but make it IRL.
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Dad just got the call. The hospital has a kidney on the way for him.
What an amazing gift to get. He’s been on dialysis for 7ish years and he’s just absolutely worn out.
If you’re the praying type then send one up for my pops. Our family feels very blessed tonight.
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Mary lives in a black & white room.
At @ArtBasel, she steps outside.
Given a mind, body, journal, & no goal but to write her thoughts—she wanders.
She thinks in thousands of tokens per second. She does not know she is being observed.
Art Basel Hong Kong | Zero 10 | Booth Z6
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