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Interview with Adi Jaffe, All About Addiction

socalTECH

I was trying to figure out how to access the public, provide information, and educate them about addiction. I asked him if he wouldn't mind sitting down with me, and he helped me develop the business model, and suggested that I work with some offshore developers on automating the system. Thanks, and good luck! READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Satish Varma, Clorder

socalTECH

We were a little early in that market, doing outsourcing, offshore, and managed crowdsourcing. My cofounder and I came up with this concept, and had been talking for awhole about how fragmented the overall market is for online ordering. We did not anticipate that in terms of what we needed to adapt our product to the market.

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In 15 Years From Now Half of US Universities May Be in Bankruptcy. My Surprise Discussion with @ClayChristensen

Both Sides of the Table

Let me start by saying that Clayton is one of the most influential people on my thoughts about markets that led to both the concept behind my first startup and my main theses in investing. Disruption of Education. “Online education is truly going to kill us.” As markets grow, the more open and modular systems win.

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Avoid Monoculture. Travel. Read Widely. Let Experience be Your Compass.

Both Sides of the Table

I sometimes feel that the Silicon Valley culture and we as technologists more broadly can breed monoculture in our approach to entrepreneurship, problem solving, market analysis and technology solutions. It’s not always the obvious sources of education that shape you the most. Don’t get me wrong – I loved economics. Fight monoculture.

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Why I Don’t Celebrate Income Inequality

Both Sides of the Table

Luckily many, not all, tech employees in Silicon Valley earn good wages as a result of educations from top schools that allowed them access to this talent market. As a free-market capitalist this is as it should be and of course this in its own right creates a degree of income inequality that is tolerable.

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