John Komkov

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John Komkov

@johnkomkov

Founder @ Fathom. Previously VC at @lightspeedvp and @AustinVentures, tech banking at @MorganStanley & economist at @WhiteHouse. Double-dip at @Stanford.

San Francisco, CA Katılım Ocak 2016

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John Komkov@johnkomkov·5 Eyl

@bgurley Algorithmically, the pro probably exploits "trappy minimax" more than standard minimax as the pro's perception of the skills gap widens. Would be interesting to know how the novice reacts though... Minimax -- palacios-huerta.com/docs/professio… Trappy Minimax -- athena.ecs.csus.edu/~gordonvs/pape…

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Bill Gurley@bgurley·5 Eyl

Question for the Twittersphere - has anyone seen any research on what happens when a player engages in a game/interaction with other players who have way more experience than the novice? Interested in social dynamics and results.

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John Komkov@johnkomkov·14 Ağu

Let us harmonize over avocado toast, minimalist furniture and reclaimed wood... theverge.com/2016/8/3/12325…

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John Komkov@johnkomkov·4 Ağu

5 out of the 5 largest US companies by market cap are now tech -- thereformedbroker.com/2016/08/02/a-g…

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John Komkov@johnkomkov·22 Tem

We're all just on the bad end of Roko's basilisk I guess ;-) twitter.com/abatalion/stat…

Aaron Batalion@abatalion

Everyone should google “simulation theory”. I’m slightly more convinced of it tonight, b/c this one is not going well. Glad there are more.

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John Komkov@johnkomkov·20 Tem

*Meanwhile in Seattle: Two-pizza team meeting in progress to spin up the reactionary BWaaS team* twitter.com/peterjhebert/s…

Peter Hebert@peterjhebert

@semil cmon, no brainer BWaaS would take off

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John Komkov@johnkomkov·20 Tem

Probably best to keep me left wing... I'm more one-footed than Arjen Robben. twitter.com/matt_slotnick/…

Matt Slotnick@matt_slotnick

@ataussig @lightspeedvp @wakohler @jvrionis @jmelul need to bring @johnkomkov along as a center back

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John Komkov@johnkomkov·18 Tem

The world of Nozickian experience machines... On the horizon and approaching quickly -- bfi.uchicago.edu/news/scholar-p…

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John Komkov@johnkomkov·18 Tem

Decomposing narrowing global term spreads...Falling LT rates overpowering rising ST rates -- econbrowser.com/archives/2016/…

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John Komkov@johnkomkov·18 Tem

Great point-in-time overview of serverless with a fair treatment of drawbacks yet to be solved (e.g. local state) -- martinfowler.com/articles/serve…

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John Komkov@johnkomkov·18 Tem

"Bot thots"... Interested to see how ads adapt to hugely reduced slotting inventory & black-box impact on search --oreilly.com/ideas/bot-thots

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John Komkov@johnkomkov·18 Tem

Quality of documentation... The hidden factor underlying much of the success (or failure) of any given OSS project. twitter.com/joemccann/stat…

◢@joemccann

The @kubernetesio docs are quite good and the tutorials are _actually_ useful. Nice work k8s team. kubernetes.io/docs/

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John Komkov@johnkomkov·14 Tem

96% of genome studies based on people of Euro descent (...Haplogroupthink) -- ted.com/talks/keolu_fo…

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John Komkov@johnkomkov·14 Tem

I'm always a fan of the understated "macaw on the shoulder"... Like a subtle epaulet that periodically chimes in... twitter.com/joemccann/stat…

◢@joemccann

24 minutes til @NodeSource Board meeting and I'm still deciding on which animal to wheel in.

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John Komkov@johnkomkov·12 Tem

When MMUs wore skirts and hose... twitter.com/JasonWardmc/st…

Jason ward@JasonWardmc

This is what a TB of storage looked like 70 years ago

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John Komkov@johnkomkov·12 Tem

Human vs. machine money, UBI and grappling with the ultimatum of unlimited human wants -- oreilly.com/ideas/machine-…

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John Komkov@johnkomkov·12 Tem

Reorienting from a world (and attending socioeconomic models) that until now have been defined by capital scarcity - avc.com/2016/07/zero-a…

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John Komkov@johnkomkov·12 Tem

Succession Planning: The Biggest Problem Facing VC ("Founders Capital" concept is an intriguing remedy...) -- bit.ly/29GuXWy

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Aaron Batalion@abatalion·12 Tem

I just published “A New High Bar for AR — The Post Pokemon GO Era” medium.com/p/a-new-high-b…

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John Komkov@johnkomkov·11 Tem

"“If you address a mkt that really wants your product you can screw up everything + still succeed." h/t @arachleff twitter.com/jvrionis/statu…

John Vrionis@jvrionis

I get amped when founders start distinguishing between those "cool I'm interested" prospects vs the "I'm dying over here" situations.

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John Komkov@johnkomkov·11 Tem

Time to diversify yo bonds twitter.com/katie_martin_f…

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