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Writer at @WIRED. Author of NYT bestseller 'Chaos Monkeys'. Formerly @Facebook, @YCombinator, @GoldmanSachs. Yes, I live on a boat and in a yurt. 🇺🇸🇪🇸

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    1. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 28

      At some point you have to stop blaming Gutenberg for the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War, and understand that what was birthed into being with the printing press was more momentous than the particulars of his Mainz workshop and what he did there.

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    2. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 28

      This Internet/printing press, Gutenberg/Zuckerberg analogy is so common at this point it's tempting to call it simply cliché or overstretched. But a study of Gutenberg's life reveals it's more exact than you might think.

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    3. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 28

      Gutenberg was indeed one of the world's first media entrepreneurs. He raised what could only be called venture capital, and then spent years in a risky bet that snowballed quickly into one problem (and brilliant solution) after another, along with various business pivots.

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    4. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 28

      Take his famous bible, which was a business mistake. There was little demand for bibles, as the only version was the Vulgate (translated by St. Jerome in the 4th century). The whole point of pre-Protestant Catholicism was that the laity didn't read the bible. The market was tiny.

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    5. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 28

      As he burned through cash, he hit upon a short-term revenue solution: he printed indulgences for the Church. That's right, the same Gutenberg whose invention Luther would use to inveigh against church indulgences, printed them to pay the bills.

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    6. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 28

      He finally hit 'product-market fit' when he printed a book with pent-up demand: a Latin grammer written in the 4th century by Donatus. In a medieval Europe of mongrel regional dialects, Latin was the lingua franca of every academic or professional. https://www.bl.uk/treasures/gutenberg/donatus.html …

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    7. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 28

      But he got there too late. After years of work and many thousands of guilders spent, the VCs sued and took the company from him (like so many defenestrated startup CEOs) right as the technology was reaching maturity. He'd never see the windfall his genius invention produced.

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      Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 28

      What are the lessons to draw here? For starters, what we call the 'printing press' was actually a collection of technologies that came to fruition at the right time. Gutenberg had to source new kinds of paper, develop new inks, and invent the very notion of typefaces.

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        1. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 28

          Likewise, what we call 'the Internet' or 'Facebook' (or whatever) is really the magic combo of the TCP/IP routing layer, the hardware of smartphones, an addictive and adopted application layer, and ubiquitous wireless connectivity.

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