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Building an Information Empire
Seeing the Water
Information is invisible
SV’s short attention span
SV’s short attention span
Information as Ideology
“Controlling the general population has always been a dominant concern of power and privilege, particularly since the first modern democratic revolution in seventeenth-century England.”
"This is the new model."
– Bradley Horowitz, VP of Product Management, Google
"Y Combinator is a big change from the way business is usually done in tech circles."
– USA Today
"We love YC!"
– Fred Wilson, Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures
"I love everything about Y Combinator. It captures the essence of Silicon Valley."
– Michael Arrington, Editor, TechCrunch
Uncomfortable Facts
Entrepreneurs are the New Labor
"This is the new model."
– Bradley Horowitz, VP of Product Management, Google
"Y Combinator is a big change from the way business is usually done in tech circles."
– USA Today
"We love YC!"
– Fred Wilson, Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures
"I love everything about Y Combinator. It captures the essence of Silicon Valley."
– Michael Arrington, Editor, TechCrunch
Two Optimistic Scenarios
Conclusions
What is Water?
Build Your Own Fishtank
The Down Town Project in Las Vegas
Build your own fish tank
Reading List
[Forbes] Entrepreneurs Are The New Labor
[Wired] One Startup’s Struggle to Survive the Silicon Valley Gold Rush -
[Formation 8] The Smart Enterprise Wave
[Book] The Master Switch
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