Feels like a perfect night to post Roelof Botha’s 2005 YouTube memo to the Sequoia Investment Committee, made public as part of the Viacom/YouTube lawsuit

One of the great pieces of business/investing writing and tech lore

shadesofgraylaw.com/wp-content/upl…

A fake business and perfect validation that we are right to kick their asses out

Jeff Bezos: I will use my wealth to support journalism. I will purchase the Washington Post

Jeff Lawson: Indeed. I also believe in supporting journalism

“Everybody wanna commoditize their complements…Everybody wanna build a platform…but nobody wanna ramp CapEx to the moon.

LIGHT WEIGHT BABAAAAY. $40B/yr. WOOOOOO. NOTHING BUT A PEANUT. LIGHT WEIGHT”

Public Tech Companies:
Layoffs. Zero-based budgeting. Austerity. Profitability.

Stripe:
Check out this hand-finished 6ft sculpture in Carrara marble

I am once again asking how many fast-casual, grain-based bowl lunch concepts the market can support

Biden's campaign team seeing him propose a 44.6% capital gains tax in an election year

This seems way too cheap. What's going on here?

Spotify is a great example of this in action

Parker Conrad hilariously describes Bill Gurley as 'sort of a constant, low-grade antagonist'

Absolutely adding that phrase to my repertoire