CEO of Y Combinator and co-founder of Initialized Capital. Co-founder of Posterous and Posthaven, and an early employee at Palantir Technologies.
Great thread on what’s happening in VC today 👇 Risk-on is right, as is finding the overlooked I think we are entering a new period of 3X to 5X growth in R&D and new technology innovation. I’m optimistic. Not all of it will work. But when it works it will be amazing.
Must read 👆 the kind of global macro analysis everyone should keep loaded in their brains In particular I am struck by how terrible and Bitcoin maximalist the last minute Warner amendment was. Near disaster. Crypto has its enemies in gov policy, and that’s why we must mobilize
2% of scientists admit to falsifying data and 14% report witnessing another scientist doing so Interestingly the movie Interstellar is a bit of a case study in this, eg Dr. Mann lying to save his own skin Experts are fallible. Great YouTube essay: