BREAKING: People in their 20's with no kids say that working from home is the future
Ben Casnocha
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Ben Casnocha
@bencasnocha
Entrepreneur, Investor @VillageGlobal, Co-Author of The Startup of You and The Alliance. villageglobal.com
- A friend who works at Google said he wanted to raise a topic at the next team all-hands. His manager took him aside and said they don't use the phrase "all-hands meeting" on his teams at Google because it's insensitive language. Because not everyone has hands.
- Losing friends to parenthood is a profound part of the experience of being in your 30’s.
- All of the giant companies today at one point were mere startups hustling for press.A story about Google from 1998:
00:00 - There's a VC in Silicon Valley with a decent following and I have a strong suspicion this person works for a foreign intelligence service. Their life history doesn't check out. Source of funds sketchy. Being an "investor" is an easy cover story to cultivate human assets in S.V.
- Marc Andreessen on entrepreneurial judgment: "...the ability to tell the difference between a situation that’s not working but persistence and iteration will ultimately prove it out, vs a situation that’s not working and radical change is necessary."
- RIP Tony Hsieh of Zappos. For those of us who published business books in the 2010-2013 time period, the success of Tony's book "Delivering Happiness" was the case study in how to build a movement around a book.
- "If you aren’t genuinely pained by the risk involved in your strategic choices, it's not much of a strategy." -- Reed Hastings, CEO, Netflix
- Flight attendant: "We have a medical situation with a passenger. If anyone on this flight has valium or other anti-anxiety medication on board, please ring your call button." Half the passengers stand up and start pulling out pills.
- When the other elephants come over to celebrate ❤️Elephant gives birth in the Masai Mara reserve in Kenya
00:00 - I know more about VC Twitter than probably any one person in the US
- Shopify raised $250k on $2.8M pre, in its seed round, according to Crunchbase Current valuation: Over $100 billion Seed investing FTW
- 📣 I’m thrilled to announce our new $250M fund - Village Global III - dedicated to backing the world’s most tenacious founders at Day 0. Equally exciting is that @reidhoffman has taken an expanded role of Chairman.
