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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

Here he found out that every kid in Uruguay is given a free laptop by the government – (for me it’s a bit like western countries giving all kids a free public education some 200 years ago and that’s why they currently lead the developed world). The entire country of Uruguay is connected to the web.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

TCP and the other foundational technologies of the web had that same property, that there was something really computationally especially complicated about them, but it was their social value. And later when the web came out, there was HTML, which was a little more approachable, right? So we had all these kinds of situations like that.

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