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One of the most valuable things I've learned from @DavidSacks is that you need to be as innovative in distribution as you are in product.
"America today has a growing advantage in...the three big C’s: code, crude and capital.” http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/opinion/thomas-friedman-a-pump-war.html …
Auto-pilot on cars happening much faster than I would have expected. http://recode.net/2014/10/10/my-night-with-elons-d-a-tell-all/ …
A thoughtful strategy takes seriously the question, "if this works, why can't others just copy it?" and answers it without indignation.
The pinnacle of business is to own a standard. And the market lets that happen so it can move on and solve new problems.
If you care about the future of #Android, consider reading this in-depth piece about @CyanogenInc https://www.theinformation.com/Cyanogen-Spurns-Google-Acquisition-Interest-Seeks-1-Billion-Valuation?token=2a459df5653e63fa6fc23a0c037a819a … $goog
Former Paypal COO @davidsacks on the spinoff & potentially becoming a $100b company http://bloom.bg/YIsQIw
Kudos to the eBay board and @Donahoe_John for deciding to split PayPal into an independent company. Very exciting and welcome news.
Zenefits exemplifies how a brilliant business model innovation can turbocharge adoption of product innovation. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/business/zenefits-leader-is-rattling-an-industry-so-why-is-he-stressed-out.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias:r,%7B%221%22:%22RI:11%22%7D&_r=2&referrer= …
How @DavidSacks wound up working @PayPal with @peterthiel -- from episode 5 of @TWistartups http://youtu.be/smuMNvnjb5s
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The most under-exploited play in SaaS is still to leverage consumer growth hacks to grow at faster-than-traditional-sales rates.
Good piece on how an ideal growth strategy combines an understanding of user psychology with analytics and testing. http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2014/09/features/growth-hacking …
Thiel's Irony: Each type pretends to be the other. No monopoly admits being a monopolist. Commodities never admit they've been commoditized.
Thiel's Law: companies are either monopolies or commodities. Commodities might make one a living; monopolies make one a fortune.
Terrific in-depth profile of my friend and hero Peter Thiel by @rparloff in Fortune: http://fortune.com/2014/09/04/peter-thiels-contrarian-strategy/ …
Entrepreneurs arbitrage the gap between what seems hard to believe now but will be obvious in the future.
One of my favorite movies when I was a kid, and now I understand why. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/07/19/201430727/what-actually-happens-at-the-end-of-trading-places …
Creating a company, like creating anything else, is an art form, and the people who do it are artists not just business people.
L.A. writer on commerce & culture, @BV columnist. New book is THE POWER OF GLAMOUR. Also wrote THE FUTURE AND ITS ENEMIES and THE SUBSTANCE OF STYLE.
In the immortal words of Bud Fox, life all comes down to a few important moments. Half the battle is just recognizing when these occur.
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