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Mar 10, 2021

Crypto Mining might just save our planet…

Let me explain. The world operates on incentives. Specifically financial incentives. And currently, sadly, scarily, there are no real direct financial incentives for people to contribute to climate change. It’s a tragedy of the commons. While no one can deny our energy crisis, the only solution is motivated teams who…

Cryptocurrency

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Crypto Mining might just save our planet…
Crypto Mining might just save our planet…
Cryptocurrency

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Jun 26, 2019

The Sovereign Protocol War — Part 2

Observations on Libra I’ve yet to hear much about In March 2018, before Facebook formally started the Libra project, I wrote that global digital currency is inevitable, the actual war to be won is China vs the rest of the world, and that Facebook was best positioned to defend the…

Bitcoin

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The Sovereign Protocol War — Part 2
The Sovereign Protocol War — Part 2
Bitcoin

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Jun 19, 2018

Time to Dive Down the Rabbit Hole

Why I’ve decided to start another company. — I’m sincerely grateful to have joined Lightspeed in 2015 and after leading many investments, most still unannounced, it’s time for me to listen to that voice in my head which thinks about building products every day. That is why I’ve personally decided to transition into a Venture Partner role at…

Startup

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Time to Dive Down the Rabbit Hole
Time to Dive Down the Rabbit Hole
Startup

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Mar 6, 2018

The Sovereign Protocol War

How Facebook, Telegram and startups… may defend us and support the open web instead Blockchain technology will change many aspects of our world for the better. But so far, we’re living in a bikeshedding software utopia, with mostly investor speculation and folks circumventing national currency controls. If a tokenized tree…

Bitcoin

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The Sovereign Protocol War
The Sovereign Protocol War
Bitcoin

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

·Oct 10, 2017

Knowns vs Unknowns — Are you building a successful company or just typing?

In a prior life as a CTO, when you asked one of the best engineers on my team if he could build something, his typical answer was “it’s just typing.” He knew what to do; it just took time. But is that what he should be doing? Now as a…

Startup

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Knowns vs Unknowns — Are you building a successful company or just typing?
Knowns vs Unknowns — Are you building a successful company or just typing?
Startup

4 min read


May 9, 2017

Amazon’s Echo Show & why we may soon see hardware network effects at scale

Last October, I wrote a post about hardware network effects. In it, I outlined an example of a fictitious home security camera that became more valuable as everyone in my neighborhood purchased one. …

Amazon Echo

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Amazon’s Echo Show & why we may soon see hardware network effects at scale
Amazon’s Echo Show & why we may soon see hardware network effects at scale
Amazon Echo

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

·Feb 14, 2017

Skate to where the voice is going…

When I was a kid, my computer had a SoundBlaster card. If you were a geek like me, you remember editing your autoexec.bat file to include: @echo off SET SOUND=C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\CTSND SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6 What you might not remember is it came with “Dr Sbaitso”, a…

Amazon Echo

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Skate to where the voice is going…
Skate to where the voice is going…
Amazon Echo

4 min read


Nov 1, 2016

Halloween is a reminder that photo sharing apps are still broken

We got together with friends and trick-or-treated around the neighborhood last night. This morning I awoke to see awesome photos of our two boys… via SMS, Messenger, WhatsApp, Facebook posts, and email. My wife got a different set of photos from last night as well. That feels totally broken. I…

Facebook

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Halloween is a reminder that photo sharing apps are still broken
Halloween is a reminder that photo sharing apps are still broken
Facebook

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Oct 26, 2016

Thoughts on LivingSocial — From a Guy Who Was There Day 0

What I learned is that your job as a founder isn’t to build a product. It’s to build an amazing group of people and a culture which empowers everyone to build products that millions of people love. We should be proud of doing just that. It started in 2007 as…

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Thoughts on LivingSocial — From a Guy Who Was There Day 0
Thoughts on LivingSocial — From a Guy Who Was There Day 0

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

·Oct 25, 2016

Facebook launches Ambient TV Experience

One of the challenges with live streaming content to date has been the waiting room phenomena. A publisher like LifeHacker, or Cheddar*, starts a live stream… and then puts up a countdown timer to wait for people to join the stream. This is a solution to solve their problem as…

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Facebook launches Ambient TV Experience
Facebook launches Ambient TV Experience

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Aaron Batalion

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NewCo. Past: Partner, @LightspeedVP. Founder/CTO, LivingSocial. Tweeting at @abatalion

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