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What sort of precedent would this set? If you ban sociopaths whose attributes (lack of empathy for one) are perfectly suited to oversee thousands of individual people, would it lead to banning, for example, a brilliant person with Aspergers from writing code because they can be a difficult on a team?

This article ought to be one sentence: change your name

I found these questions to be pretty interesting

https://medium.com/@therealpankaj/interview-questions-to-ask...

So many people and content sites put out menaingless predictions that there is no consequence of being wrong on. Unless the author has sufficient skin in the game, for example they take a short position on the S&P to back up the predicted drop we as readers should not put much credence in “prediction listicles.”

Up to this point, if you could amass any sort of audience, it was easier and more lucrative to monetize via ads than attempt user subscriptions/micro transactions.

I recall hearing that VCs would advise their consumer apps NOT to monetize at all so in acquisition talks they could position potential instead of actual amount / user.

Let’s assume that Mobile users (across the world) are open to making these micro-transactions (I think they likely are). These would qualify as in-app purchases. This makes Apple + Google the gatekeepers to this happening.

Compounded by the fact that almost their entire population lives of off generous government subsidies. Will be tough to instill an entrepreneurial spirit in the next generation.

Tackle the hardest problems and solve them.

or

Attach yourself to the areas that have the highest business impact and produce results...

Create a basic balance sheet spreadsheet for your self. In the rows, enumerate out the next 50 years In the columns put in your Income vs Expenses Factor in things like marriage, kids, buying home, college, reasonable investment returns.

Make the numbers work for the life you want. You don't need to be a billionaire to have a fulfilling life.

You ultimately default to action, not get stuck thinking about whether or not.

While each funding round typically results in the dilution of ownership percentages for existing investors, the need to sell a higher number of shares to meet financing requirements in a down round increases the dilutive effect. Due to the potential for drastically lower ownership percentages, raising capital in a down round is often a company’s last resort, but the new funding may represent the company’s only chance of staying in business.

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Acknowledged and true that there is always someone with a contrarian pessimistic view. Chamath seems bent on "burning it down" after his own firm went through what objectively looks like a meltdown.

Also true that later stage companies have working business models (though they are typically not profitable a tradeoff they willingly make for growth). See the comment above on plenty of funding post SoftBank round. I've also observed that their valuation forces founders to do subsequent down rounds.

The Ponzi scheme argument (not perfect) is the gains are all paper valuations that are based on growth continuing or more investment being piled in. Once that stops the whole thing crumbles. After Softbank with a $100B fund, where else does the funding come from? IPO?

It’s worth noting that the commercial real estate companies are exposed should WeWork falter.

https://www.cbinsights.com/research/wework-real-estate-earni...

It would seem that softbanks backing by the Saudi brutal regime should give Silicon Valley idealistic founders moment of pause before accepting their investment.

WeWork founders banned meat from their office meals can they really accept to be owned by this fund?

Once the SoftBank money stops flowing does the chamath described Ponzi scheme stop causing the whole thing Venture backed growth story to unravel?

https://www.businessinsider.com/softbank-talks-invest-15-bil...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RwRZtZQoLtQ