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Going to try this out!

Screenshots are a chore and am relying on google docs instead.

Loving the company name too!

Great find!

Rarely get to see how others think on deals. Led me to try this out with my own substack.

I believe it varies across co's. Here's what I found for FB

"Netflix NFLX CEO Reed Hastings and Peter Thiel both collected $349,151 just for being on Facebook's board in 2017, mostly in the form of stock awards. The other three members of the board made comparable amounts last year." https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/all-fun-salary-info-uncovere...

Mike, thanks for the observation!

The chart is correct, but theoretically you could flip the axes and the shape of the chart would still be true.

Power Law Distributions in early stage investing a low frequency of high expected returns, and high frequency of low expected returns.

One that all have similar successes (e.g. all fail)

Odds are most early stage venture portfolios have a power law distribution, but of different magnitude.

Later stage you go, the more normal the distribution will look

PMF is when the startup has i) identified which users are desperate for the product, ii) made a product that customers can’t get enough of (demand feels exponential), and iii) found a business model that works

https://a16z.com/2017/02/18/12-things-about-product-market-f...

Check out Ketochow

Also likely drivers list they work at Uber

Exponent FM is great. Not by a founder, but about strategy in tech

Will this make them the go to firm for YC companies looking to raise?

Yahoo in talks to acquire Jawbone? Just joking (or am I)?

Great idea! I'm sure you will be subject to network effects. What about users without a facebook?

I think its more appropriate to say instead of "a doomed to fail and a successful" is "a doomed to fail and a less likely doomed to fail."

$2.7mm in damages over 6 malware infected parts. That escalated quickly.

Where do they get the rationale for the Mice and Keyboards?!

Hell yeah, I'm a lift user as well. Love it!

Not sure, but this looks like the first major global approach by an in-house tech VC fund - 5 accelerators around the globe.

They've been profitable since '05, which is great. With an IPO lurking they must have something else big in the pipeline - otherwise it's a Zynga 2.0.

What if he is not actually in Hong Kong? Just a ploy

Up 1.4% at the most, day close of up .23%, given tech stock, would prefer to say that it has little relation to tumblr acquisition today

Hackathons are a great for innovation. I hope to see more startups spin out of them though!