A reminder for new readers. That Was The Week collects the best writing on critical issues in tech, startups, and venture capital. I select the articles because they are of interest. The selections often include things I disagree with. The articles are only snippets. Click on the headline to go to the original. I express my point of view in the editorial and the weekly video below.
This Week’s Video and Podcast:
Content this week from : @paulg, @ergestx , @hhhypergrowth, @micsolana, @morgan_sung, @adhutchinson, @alishmalik1, @benedictevans, @netgarden, @kyle_l_wiggers, @tim, @carta, @kateparknews,
Contents
How to Do Great Work Paul Graham
How Analytics Wins – Ergest Xheblati
The Modern Data Stack – Muji
Twitter’s Final Boss: Zuckerberg Wages War
You can’t post ass, Threads is doomed
Meta’s New Threads App Reaches 30 Million Users in Less Than a Day
Twitter threatens to sue Meta over its new Threads app
Vinod Khosla – The Trillion $ AI Opportunity
AI and the automation of work – Benedict Evans
Why Generative AI is such a “Nuclear” Force
OpenAI makes GPT-4 generally available
Artificial Intelligence firms flock to SF, “AI capital of the world”
Nutrition, sleep and mental health advice offered to tech founders at risk of burnout
First Cut — State of Private Markets: Q2 2023
VC Exit Value Sags to Lowest Level Since the GFC
US venture capital spending drops sharply in 2Q
Unicorns face mass extinction as funding plummets
Khan Rewrites the Merger Rulebook
SoftBank backs Japanese robotics startup Telexistence in $170M funding round
Bluesky, Twitter, Threads and Mastadon as clothing styles
Editorial
Mark Zuckerberg has the demeanor of a naughty schoolboy. He brazenly misbehaves and yet somehow insists he is playing fair.
Threads, let’s be honest, is a very poor Twitter clone. It looks a bit like Twitter, smells like Twitter, and even feels a bit like Twitter. And that is intended. It’s a minimum viable Twitter or an MVT.
Mark is a copycat and a fibber