We haven't had a major new technology company in more than 10 years. Silicon Valley is supposed to be a place where a couple of guys in a garage or a dorm room can start companies that change the world. It happened with Apple and Microsoft in the 1970s, AOL in the 1980s, Amazon, Yahoo, … Continue reading The end of the internet startup
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Crazy Work Hours and Lots of Cameras: Silicon Valley Goes to China
A group of Silicon Valley executives at the investment firm Sinovation Ventures in Beijing in August. It was part of a trip to China their companies organized to explore how the country has rapidly become a tech power to rival the United States. One Chinese technology executive said he worked 14 to 15 hours a … Continue reading Crazy Work Hours and Lots of Cameras: Silicon Valley Goes to China
The Bitcoin Oracle Who Exited Bitcoin
I have known Vinny Lingham for about 10 minutes when he tells me people want him dead. “I’ve had four death threats in my life,” he says. “And three of them have been in the last nine months.” It’s a few minutes past 7 a.m. on a recent weekday. We’re standing in the lobby of … Continue reading The Bitcoin Oracle Who Exited Bitcoin
This chart shows every major technological innovation in the last 150 years — and how they have changed the way we work
Former Apple chief executive Steve Jobs holds an original iPhone, one of the biggest technological breakthroughs of modern times. Since 1760, productivity has increased almost 30 fold. That is largely down to technological innovations like electricity, telephones, and the internet. Barclays chronicled the world's rising productivity in its latest Equity Gilt Study. LONDON — Humanity … Continue reading This chart shows every major technological innovation in the last 150 years — and how they have changed the way we work
We wanted flying cars instead we got 140 characters
Founders Fund, the VC firm whose highest-profile investment is Facebook, has published a manifesto of sorts, called "What Happened To The Future?" The content will be familiar to anyone who's been following Founders Fund co-founder Peter Thiel: it complains that the rate of technological innovation is slowing, and that we need more ambitious entrepreneurs solving … Continue reading We wanted flying cars instead we got 140 characters
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