VC Cafe

APRIL 22, 2024

Project ‘Sfera’ is a recent example from Russia. What makes something go viral on TikTok (like Bin Laden’s ‘letter to America’ did recently ), is still a black box. The US Airforce successfully conducted a Dogfight between an autonomously controlled fighter jet and a human pilot last year.

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Board Effect

APRIL 7, 2020

The general public is on a constant search for updated information on the issue and the internet is the first place they’re looking to find it. There are a good number of hackers lurking in cyberspace that have the backing of their governments —namely in China, North Korea, and Russia.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 14, 2013

How about a meteor falling in Russia ? See also Google Glass: What Do You Want To Know About Google’s Internet Eyewear.). Were you surprised that the Boston Marathon bombers were caught on video? You shouldn’t have been. Or a pizza delivery guy urinating on a customer’s door after receiving too small a tip?

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 26, 2023

We already have a fairly fractured internet and I don’t want to see it get worse—with each country’s citizens only seeing what their government wants them to see. Even if we’ve gotten a mixed bag of results in that regard, I don’t think isolationism is the right way to go for the future of technology.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Eric Ries : I had to do the math, and it's dangerous to do the math live, but I had to look up on Wikipedia the number of English-speaking internet users, which is about 1.1 Eric Ries : So if I'm getting it right, 60 million people is something like 5% of the possible audience of people who are on the internet and speak English.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

I began asking around who the smartest people in the online media industry were and two names came up again and again — Jonah Peretti (social & viral content) and Ze Frank (social video). I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru. He thinks the very nature of video is changing. Video is the new HTML.”

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