Weekly Recap, January 31st-February 6th 2022

Evening cool kids! Get into any trouble this week? I present for your enjoyment the fifth issue of my LinkedIn newsletter. You know the drill: it's all my LinkedIn posts for the week (plus a few extras for the fun of it).

Here ya go!

60 years ago, for the price of two jet airliners (the Comet was the world's first) you could get a computer capable of doing six whole things at once. ??

Everyone knows that a really complicated technology in an emerging field full of profound unknowns is clearly no match for a VC who's read some Wikipedia entries on the topic and did okayish in business school. ??

“ARIA will empower scientists to pursue high risk, high reward research to create the industries of tomorrow.” ??

"I think this is a microcosm of how bad the incentives are in crypto - VCs and private investors that used to have to wait ten years for liquidity can now get it within one. The last time that happened was 1999, and we know how that ended." ??

"Bro, if I had Sequoia on my cap table do you really think I would be taking your call?" ??

“In the way they are currently used, shared e- scooters and e- bikes do the climate more harm than good”. ?? ??

"Many corporate venture capitalists (CVCs) believe executives at their parent companies do not understand the norms of the venture space." ????

You never want to see one of your stocks get Wile E. Coyote'd. ?? Meep, meep Meta.

Based on reactions to this article, the FT landed a direct blow in trolling European VCs. Hit ‘em right in the inferiority complex. ??

"'To The Moon'?is not fundamental analysis. It is an inducement. It is an encouragement of belief. And the only thing that is fueling that rocket ship?'To The Moon'?is the credulity of others. These are all pressure tactics weaponized to induce people to be greater fools." ?? ??

Europeans complaining about there being no mention of Europe in a book about VC seems like a frog puffing itself up to match the ox. ?? ??

BusinessWeek cover story 26 years ago today. Apple fell at the time, but damn it did one a hell of a job getting back up. ?? ??

“From Series C onward in 2021, the typical European startup raised more, both in terms of average and median round size, than its U.S. counterparts.” ??

Of the top 10 performing PE firms, 6 are tech focused, and 8 are US based. ??

Now some more things to make you go hmmm...

Here's a Kamasi Washington performance from this week. It's pretty lit. Covid taking away much of the live music scene has been one of the most difficult parts of the pandemic for me. I'll be including more music in the extras from now on:

Richard Pryor singing Bessie Smiths' 'Nobody Loves You When You're Down And Out':

What’s the most New York thing that’s ever happened to you? Amazing thread. I ?? NY

The new Ben & Jerry's flavor needs work ??:

Closing Diablo Canyon is just dumb:

The rise and fall of the US newspaper jobs:

The brilliant Claude Shannon riding a penny-farthing (because why not?):

The world does bad things to Italian food and Italians know it:

One Tata Steel plant in the Netherlands pollutes the entire country (and neighbouring countries) with high levels of NO2:

In a magic square each row, column, and diagonal add up to the same number. This is the only 3x3 normal magic square (excluding rotations and reflections):

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Have an amazing week!

MJ.