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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

This past year was also the year that startup boards also got more disciplined about containing burn rates and pushing for companies to be run more pragmatically. Perhaps this is why the Kuwait Investment Authority put $165 million into Jawbone and Saudi’s PIF put $3.5 billion into Uber. or Walmart buying Jet for $3 billion.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

This morning I’m going to talk about the Mobile App ecosystem and why it’s led so many startups astray. The fourth part is “ discover ” and this is the professional media part of Snapchat that you barely knew existed but your younger peers certainly know about. Better than FB, Twitter or any news site.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 10, 2016

What I didn't know at the time was how much the media reinforced that. Kicking Saddam's ass out of Kuwait made us feel good and patriotic. I was socialized to think of crime as the kind of thing where whites were the victim and people of color were the perpetrators. I didn't know either that most people get killed by their own race.

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