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1/ I’m thrilled to announce that I’m joining @a16z as a partner to help find and support building the next generation of great consumer companies. Let me talk a little about why.
Josh Elman
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Josh Elman
@joshelman
I have been very lucky to work on or invest in many products I use every day including this one when it had a different name.
- Heard a crazy story about someone secretly working two jobs full time remotely and no one has noticed for 5 months.
- I wonder if Pixar is working on Office Story about how sad all of the office equipment (monitors, keyboards, copiers, desks, chairs) are right now waiting and hoping for workers to come back
- 1/ Some personal news…
- Replying to @joshelman
- Founders of Airbnb and Box from January. They said it well.Damn this site is good.
- This evening I was again reminded how many startups have tried to solve the problem “what is going on in my area this weekend that might enjoy?” and… how unsolved that problem still is.
- Imagine designing something that won’t launch for 7 years, will take almost 7 months to get to its destination, and then has to work on the first try no second chances or bug fixes. Think you’d get it right on one shot? Congrats Team NASA and Team Perseverance!
- We keep comparing “media networks” (Tiktok, Youtube, Twitter) and “social media networks” (Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat) as if they are similar. Both can be user generated content. At their core, they are more different than alike. Even if the social networks include some media
- OH: Remote work is great for getting work done. Remote work is much worse for figuring out the work to get done.
- “It’s not you, it’s the stage of the company.” I have had this same conversation recently with a number of friends who joined a startup very early, did amazing work, saw huge scale of the company, and were now feeling stuck, unwanted, some even pushed out by a new manager
- I wrote down some advice I often give people when evaluating startup offers and thought I would offer it here.
- Massive blockbuster public offerings are the flagstones of an era. 1986 - Microsoft - software 1995 - Netscape - internet access 2004 - Google - internet services 2012 - Facebook - social 2014 - Alibaba - Chinese internet 2019 - Uber - mobile on demand 2021 - Coinbase - crypto
- People often say the most important attribute of a startup is speed. But I think speed is overrated. The most important attribute is purpose.
