Power to the Edges By editor on February 19, 2018 — 1 min read We took a step back and we said, “Where does the world need to be improved the most?” And we defined “improved” in the following way: How do you rip out power and give it to the people at the edges, and then how do you allow them to do whatever they want to do?... More
Rebuild By editor on February 19, 2018 — 1 min read The firm is basically with this premise: it’s about deconstructing these extremely calcified senses of power. Society as we define it right now is breaking at the seams. All of us live a life of just total frustration, and it’s because none of us trust the things that we were supposed to trust to help... More
Being First By editor on January 28, 2018 — 2 mins read We’re just very sensitive to not investing in the tail; we want to be first. The sign that you’re first is when you’re doing deals and you’re making investments in companies where there is virtually nobody else. My bellwether is I have a few mentors that I really look up to. If you spend any... More
Unchanged Industries By editor on January 28, 2018 — 2 mins read When I honed in on this thesis, what I said was, one level beneath it: If we want to disrupt the systems of society that are the most broken, and we want to empower the [highest] number of people, we want to build the next trillion dollar industries, where do those exist? You have to... More
The Trillion Dollar Problems By editor on January 28, 2018 — 1 min read Bill Gates has saved 7.5 million people’s lives. That’s incredible. I haven’t saved one life. Practically saying, “I gave someone a polio vaccine that allowed them to live.” I can’t say that, so I have no idea what that feels like. Even one life is amazing. Another person, Bill Clinton. One of my heroes. That... More
Systemic Inequity By editor on January 28, 2018 — 2 mins read When you see things like Arab Spring, the riots in Paris and London, you see hundreds of thousands of people in the streets in Moscow, you see people standing up against the FARC, you see people in Occupy Wall Street. You think to yourself: Well, these are just spots of dissent. It’s not. They’re all... More
