A reminder for new readers. That Was The Week includes a collection of my selected readings on critical issues in tech, startups, and venture capital. I selected the articles because they are of interest to me. The selections often include things I entirely disagree with. But they express common opinions, or they provoke me to think. The articles are sometimes long snippets to convey why they are of interest. Click on the headline, contents link or the ‘More’ link at the bottom of each piece...

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Contents Editorial: When is a Bubble not a Bubble? Essays of the Week The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness? The Day the Music Lied Weapons of Mass Production China’s future economy This Message Will Self-Destruct in 33 Seconds 1 in 6 People Will Be Aged 65+ by 2050 Venture Investing This Week Global Venture Funding In Q1 2024 Shows Startup Investors Remain Cautious First Cut - State of Private Markets: Q4 2023 The Investments Where I’m Going...

Congratulations to this week’s creators: @aatilley, @kimmackrael, @gruber, @mgsiegler, @cookie, @AndrewYNg, @sequoia, @mikebutcher, @marketsentiment, @datadrivenvc, @AndreRetterath, @rzhou186, @blockchained000, @lauramandaro, @rideember, @psawers, @affinitybyserif, @canva Contents * Editorial:  * Essays of the Week * Apple Turns to Longtime Steve Jobs Disciple to Defend Its ‘Walled Garden’ * The EU’s Share of Apple’s Global Revenue * Apple EU Fine is Bonkers * Marissa Mayer’s startup just...

Lawmakers Ignoring The Law In her influential 2017 Yale Law Journal article, "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox," Lina Khan argues that the current antitrust framework, which primarily focuses on consumer welfare and price effects, fails to capture the full range of anticompetitive practices employed by digital platforms like Amazon. She suggests that the Sherman Act and other antitrust laws may need to be reinterpreted or updated to address these companies' specific challenges from an anti-trust...

Congratulations to this week’s selected creators: @mvpeers,@jgkelley, @CollingsPaige, @hbarra, @krishnanrohit, @geneteare, @chudson, @aliyalakhani, @jeffbeckervc, @nvidia, @LanceUlanoff, @JoannaStern, @RachelEnsignWSJ, @gvipers, @viaCristiano, @jacobbogage, @marianaa_alfaro, @stevesi, @mgseigler, @oliverbethell, @abbyohlheiser, @alex, @ChristineMHall, @Jessicalessin Contents * Editorial: Ban Foreigners Owning Key Assets? * Essays of the Week * Busting Myths on Foreign Media Ownership as...

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Hats Off To This Week’s Contributors: @RyanMorrisonJer, @geneteare, @mgsiegler, @spyglass_feed, @saulausterlitz, @ClareMalone, @benedictevans, @mikeloukides, @ErikNaso, @kateclarktweets, @finkd, @mattbirchler, @imillhiser, @jaygoldberg, @ron_miller, @btaylor, @sierraplatform, @eladgil Contents * Editorial:  * Essays of the Week * AI Leads New Unicorn Creation As Ranks Of $1B Startups Swells  * Behold: The Sports Streaming Bundle * 40 Years Ago, This Ad Changed the Super Bowl Forever * Is the...

The editorial discusses the significant shift in the media landscape, exemplified by Tucker Carlson's move to a digital platform, "X," to conduct a groundbreaking interview with Vladimir Putin. This event underscores the growing power of new, internet-based media platforms to deliver content directly to audiences, bypassing traditional media channels. The rapid adoption of "X" following the interview highlights the internet's capacity to host compelling, unconventional content. The editorial...

A reminder for new readers. That Was The Week collects the best writing on critical issues in tech, startups, and venture capital. I selected the articles because they are of interest. The selections often include things I entirely disagree with. But they express common opinions, or they provoke me to think. 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 Audio: Thanks To This...

A reminder for new readers. That Was The Week collects the best writing on critical issues in tech, startups, and venture capital. I selected the articles because they are of interest. The selections often include things I entirely disagree with. But they express common opinions, or they provoke me to think. 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. Thanks To This Week’s Contributors:...

That Was The Week is an editorialized and curated weekly look at developments in tech, startups, and venture investing with a video and podcast for paid subscribers. All free subscribers get a 6-month complementary paid subscription. This episode asks what 2024 has in store. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thatwastheweek.substack.com/subscribe

Keith Teare has decades of experience as an entrepreneur, with multiple success stories, starting in political activism, and then tech. He is the Founder of SignalRank which is a data-only company using AI to transform the venture game, and writes a weekly newsletter ‘That Was the Week’ which is also a show.There is no newsletter until January 19th so here is a New Year gift. Maria Matloub of ggutt interviewed me. I promised to help her distribute it. This is a public episode. If you’d...

For those interested, I have embedded an Excel file with a list of 2023 issues of That Was The Week, ordered by the largest number opened and read on Substack. Each issue is linked. The newsletter is also published on X, Facebook, Linkedin, and the Video on Youtube. The total Substack views in 2023 will be about 250,000, with 150,000 users. I have over 60,000 LinkedIn followers and contacts, 6500 on X, and 4800 Friends on Facebook, with a further 35,000 or so followers. These people all have...

Contents Editorial:  Essays of the Week The modern data stack was never big enough Revisiting The Death of a Venture Fund Calpers’ $4.5 Billion Venture Bet Global Venture Funding In November Slows At Early Stage The Fintech Sector Trotted The Most New Unicorns Onto Our Board In November From Unicorns to Zombies: Tech Start-Ups Run Out of Time and Money Video of the Week The Where, When, and How of AI AI of the Week Learn more about Gemini, our...

It’s Thanksgiving here in Palo Alto, and I should thank all the writers and producers whose work I read each week for the stimulation and provocation they provide. In case you do not all realize it, you are appreciated. I always try to call out the creators of the content I curate at the top of That Was The Week, and I will continue to do so. Many appear every week. Let us start with Brian Chesky, of AirBnB fame, this week. His X post is apt and to the point. I called this week’s...

It’s a day late for That Was The Week. In mitigation, what a day it was, with the firing of Sam Altman at OpenAI, and the demotion, then resignation of Greg Brockman, Jakub Pachocki, the company’s director of research; Aleksander Madry, head of a team evaluating potential risks from AI, and Szymon Sidor, a seven-year researcher at the startup. The dust is beginning to settle, and my best interpretation of the events comes from these x posts by Kara Swisher and Elad Gil, focused on effective...

It's Thursday evening, and I have had a busy day in a busy week, and I am not feeling the urge for grandiosity. But OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman did announce some world-changing technologies this week. The article by Ben Thompson from Stratechery below lists them. Still, a list does not do justice to how much thinking decision-making, and execution OpenAI has accomplished in a short period. The heart of the announcements is a newly scalable architecture that allows anybody to have their own...

Ethics matter. And using them in times of stress matters, too. SBF lost the plot in his defense this week, seeking to blame his lack of attention to detail and his colleagues for the failings at FTX and Alameida. There was a lack of ethics in his decisions and a further lack of ethics in his trial strategy. I have no idea how contrived the entire set of episodes was at FTX, but blaming colleagues seems both a low shot and a long shot simultaneously. It would have been better to tell the...

Charles Hudson and Manu Kumar are two of the best early-stage investors in the world. This week, they both penned meaningful essays declaring that the fundamentals of early-stage investing have changed, possibly permanently. Charles states: For the past 18 months, the Series A market has been very quiet. Outside of AI-related investments, it feels like deal volume is off 75%. The Series A investors I know don’t feel any pressure to make investments and don’t really seem that excited or...

Marc Andreessen, Sam Altman and Geoffrey Hinton To quote Oscar Wilde:A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias. Now, I have said that the community by means of organisation of machinery will supply the useful things, and that the beautiful things will be made...