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douchebagbrainwaves · 5 years ago

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EVERY FOUNDER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT KAY

If you grow to the point where 90% of a group's output is created by 1% of its members, you lose big if something whether Viking raids, or central planning drags their productivity down to the average. That's because, unlike novelists, hackers collaborate on projects. There need to be solved, and d deliver them as informally as possible, e starting with a crude version 1, then f iterating rapidly. This won't be a change, because the rate of technological change seems to be wired into us. Another approach would be to start new silicon valleys. In those fields it can take months to find a new job in a bad economy. History offers some encouragement. It must be terse, simple, and hackable. Prose can be rewritten over and over until you're happy with it. If the best hackers start their own companies after college instead of getting jobs, that will change what happens in college. A deals per partner per year.

Many of the interesting applications written in the coming years will be server-based applications also give us the answer to this question. Companies will pay for software, but fortunately we can do that. Investors have poured into this territory from both directions. An unbiased review would go something like this: instead of a fixed round size, startups will do a rolling close, where they take money from investors one at a time. When you get to hit a few difficult problems over the net at someone, you learn pretty quickly how hard they hit them back. The one example I've found is, embarrassingly enough, Yahoo, which filed a patent suit against a gaming startup called Xfire in 2005. The Louvre might as well flip a coin.

If Microsoft used this approach, their software wouldn't be so full of security holes, because the rate of new companies increases. I don't think that physical books are outmoded yet. Most technologies evolve a good deal of effort into seeming smart. Now people are saying the same things about Arc that they said at first about Viaweb, and became Yahoo's when they bought us. I think, maybe I should say Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, or Alan Kay, or someone famous like that. Remember, too, will be custom deals for the forseeable future. As a founder, you're buying stock with work: the reason Larry and Sergey are so rich is not so much that they've done work worth tens of billions of dollars, but that there can even be such a thing as good taste, but that it's obvious. The smart ones learn who the other smart ones are, and are aghast at the thought you'd be so disloyal as to leave them out of your round. I doubt Microsoft would ever be so stupid.

There should be online documentation as well. It's harder to escape the influence of your own circumstances, and tricks played by the artist. There's nothing that magically changes after you take that last exam. Programming languages, especially, don't get redesigned enough. Sound is a good cue to problems. But because humans have so much in software is public opinion—or rather, hacker opinion. They didn't mean to make the startups they want more expensive? One thing I can say is that 99. Reddit and think the founders were lucky. You don't have any of that if you and a couple friends decide to create a new web-based application. The idea that you could actually make the finished work from the prototype. If startups are mobile, the best local talent will go to them only to fill up rounds that are oversubscribed, being last in line means they'll probably miss the hot deals.

The only real role of patents, for most startups, is as an element of the mating dance with acquirers. If a round takes 2 months to close, and once founders realize that, it's going to stop. Hackers like to work for them by establishing a separate R & D department where employees don't have to think more about each startup before investing. It's like trying to convince someone by shouting at them. So the test of a language were how good finished programs look in it. In a traditional series A round, before the VCs invest they make the company set aside a block of stock for future hires—usually between 10 and 30% of the company? You must not use the word algorithm in the title of a book. Much of the stress comes from dealing with investors. I think hackers will use it.

I was a kid, computers were big, expensive machines built one at a time, like the temporary buildings built at so many American universities during World War II, they often don't get thrown away. Sarbanes-Oxley. Largely because of Sarbanes-Oxley, few startups go public now. If good art is thus a property of objects after all. Often, indeed, it is not merely an accident of history that the great paintings of the Renaissance are all full of people. I would not be far from the truth to say that the novel or the chair is designed according to the most advanced acquirers, identifying companies to buy is extremely ad hoc, and completing the acquisition often involves a great deal of unneccessary friction. And yet the Lisps we have today are still pretty much what they had at MIT in the mid-1980s, because that's what a struct is supposed to mean. The higher-level abstractions, which you can get a product launched on a few tens of thousands of dollars of seed money from us or your uncle, and approach them with a counter-suit.

Maybe great hackers have some similar inborn ability. Startups succeed by creating wealth, not by suing people. With the rise of server-based applications. Was Amazon supposed to say no? So ultimately we're aiming for the same destination, just approaching it from different directions. That sounds hipper than Lisp. Nor am I defending the current patent system. A rounds is that they're more prestigious. When Reddit first launched, it seemed laughable to VCs and e-commerce business was granted a patent on online ordering, or something like that. If you're starting your own company, why do you need a degree?

There are lots of good examples. Indeed, these statistics about Cobol or Java being the most popular language can be misleading. The lower of two levels will either be a language in its own right, and that often means seeing something the big company doesn't want to imagine a world in which high school students think they need to fix it. You're most likely to get good grades to impress future employers, students will try to learn things. But have they tested that theory? Indeed, if programming languages were all more or less equivalent, there would be little justification for using any but the most popular language can be misleading. Before patents, people protected ideas by keeping them secret.

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bigyack-com · 5 years ago

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DealBook: Exclusive Details on Michael Bloomberg’s Plan to Rein in Wall Street

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Bloomberg leans left and takes aim at Wall Street

Exclusive: We’re the first to report Mike Bloomberg’s proposals for changing how the financial industry is regulated, which he is planning to announce this morning. The plan features ideas that wouldn’t be out of place for Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.Among Mr. Bloomberg’s proposals:• A financial transactions tax of 0.1 percent• Toughening banking regulations like the Volcker Rule and forcing lenders to hold more in reserve against losses• Having the Justice Department create a dedicated team to fight corporate crime and “encouraging prosecutors to pursue individuals, not only corporations, for infractions”• Merging Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac• Strengthening the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and “expanding its jurisdiction to include auto lending and credit reporting”• Automatically enrolling borrowers of student loans into income-based repayment schemes and capping paymentsMany of the proposals are a reversal from Mr. Bloomberg’s previous stance on financial regulation. In 2011, he complained that Democrats were taking “punitive actions” against Wall Street that could harm the economy. And comments he made in 2015 linking the financial crisis to the end of banks’ so-called redlining practices have drawn fierce criticism in recent days.It’s a sign of how far left Democratic presidential hopefuls feel they need to go to succeed in this year’s primary — even with a multibillion-dollar war chest. Mr. Bloomberg’s financial transactions tax plan is remarkably similar to one that has the backing of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.Progressive critics are likely to argue that it doesn’t go far enough. Many Democrats have also proposed some sort of wealth tax, while Ms. Warren has called for a complete overhaul of the private equity industry and Mr. Sanders wants to break up the big banks.Bloomberg’s campaign insists he isn’t flip-flopping: On the Volcker Rule, for instance, a spokeswoman said: “When it was introduced, as now, Mike was skeptical of regulators’ ability to divine traders’ intent.” His new plan would focus “on the outcome of speculative trading — big gains and losses — rather than on traders’ intent.”We’ll have more soon on nytimes.com/dealbook. Breaking: This morning, Mr. Bloomberg qualified for the Democratic debate in Las Vegas on Wednesday night, the first time he will appear onstage with his rivals for the nomination. ____________________________Today’s DealBook Briefing was written by Andrew Ross Sorkin in New York, and Michael J. de la Merced and Jason Karaian in London.____________________________

Apple cuts sales guidance over coronavirus

The iPhone maker was one of the first big companies to reveal how the coronavirus outbreak was affecting its business. The company said yesterday that “a slower return to normal conditions than we had anticipated” forced it to scrap its guidance for revenue this quarter.There is more to come. China’s central position in global supply chains — and as a huge market in itself — means that the outbreak could ripple through company’s financials for months.Good luck, analysts! The virus outbreak’s negative but uncertain effects are coming up often in earnings calls: “Coronavirus” has been cited in 170 investor presentations by S&P 500 companies in the past month, according to a search of transcripts in S&P Capital IQ. Apple’s forecast for future profits was already more vague than usual “due to the greater uncertainty,” Tim Cook, its C.E.O., said last month.Taking a different approach, Walmart said this morning that its forecast for the current financial year didn’t take into account any potential effects of the virus outbreak.

HSBC makes ‘ruthless’ cuts in U.S. and Europe

The London-based bank said this morning that it planned to cut about 35,000 jobs over the next three years as it retreats from the West to focus more on Asia.“We are intending to exit a lot of domestically focused customers in Europe and the U.S. on the global banking side,” Ewen Stevenson, the bank’s C.F.O., told Bloomberg Television. He said the lender would make “surgical and ruthless” cuts to underperforming businesses.The plan is to accelerate investment in its Asian and Middle Eastern businesses, which already generate nearly half of its revenue. That’s the strategy that Standard Chartered, another London-based, Asia-focused bank, has followed.The initiative may not be enough. Shares in HSBC dropped 3 percent this morning. Alan Higgins, the chief investment officer of Coutts & Company, told Bloomberg that the strategy was “on the conservative side.”

Jeff Bezos pledges $10 billion on climate change

The Amazon chief has announced his biggest charitable donation to date, a fund to study and fight climate change, Karen Weise of the NYT writes.Mr. Bezos is a latecomer to large-scale charitable giving, starting in 2018 with a $2 billion program to combat homelessness created with his then-wife, MacKenzie.Amazon has been under pressure to reduce its carbon footprint. It revealed in September that it emitted about 44.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2018, making it one of the world’s top 200 emitters. And employees have called on the company to stop providing services to oil and gas industries.“One hand cannot give what the other is taking away,” said Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, a group of workers protesting the company’s environmental practices.

Europe’s venture capitalists are getting serious

Atomico said this morning that it had raised Europe’s largest-ever independent tech venture fund, worth $820 million. The London-based venture capital firm’s founder, Niklas Zennstrom, told Michael in an interview that it was a sign of how the European start-up industry is coming into its own.There are now 99 “unicorns” — VC-backed start-ups worth at least $1 billion — in Europe, compared with 22 five years ago. “Companies are taking on bigger challenges, and there’s more ambition and experience,” Mr. Zennstrom said.That enabled Atomico to raise more money for its fifth fund than the $750 million it had originally planned. Among the investors in this fund are founders and early employees of Atomico-backed companies like Spotify, the payments company Klarna and the game maker Supercell. Mr. Zennstrom himself is a Swedish billionaire who co-founded Skype.But Mr. Zennstrom sees hurdles ahead:• Valuation multiples for European start-ups aren’t as high as those for U.S. companies. (There are twice as many V.C.-backed unicorns in the U.S., according to PwC.) Even so, Mr. Zennstrom said that unlike their American rivals, European start-ups were more focused on creating businesses that can become profitable.• Although Europe has plenty of gifted coders, getting them to come to a particular start-up — often in a different country — is a challenge.

Mark Zuckerberg calls for global rules for online content

While on a trip to Europe, the Facebook founder suggested that new rules and standards were needed to promote public trust in tech platforms.“I believe good regulation may hurt Facebook’s business in the near term, but it will be better for everyone, including us, over the long term,” Mr. Zuckerberg wrote in an FT opinion piece. Facebook also published a white paper with “guidelines for future regulation.”E.U. officials rejected his proposals. “It’s not enough. It’s too slow, it’s too low in terms of responsibility and regulation,” said a European Commissioner. And in response to Mr. Zuckerberg’s opinion piece, George Soros wrote a letter to the FT calling on the C.E.O. to “stop obfuscating the facts by piously arguing for government regulation” and urging him to resign.

The speed read

Deals• Pier 1 Imports filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. (NYT)• Univision is reportedly in talks to sell itself to an investor group for about $10 billion, including debt. (WSJ)• Alstom agreed to buy Bombardier’s train division for up to $6.7 billion to take on China’s CRRC. (Reuters)• Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway sold a third of its stake in Goldman Sachs and a fifth of its shares in Wells Fargo. (Reuters)Politics and policy• The millennial goal of retiring early would be bad news for the Fed if they could manage to do it. (NYT)• Some employees at Oracle are protesting plans by their C.E.O., Larry Ellison, to hold a fund-raiser for President Trump. (Business Insider)Tech• Germany is poised to let Huawei into its 5G wireless network, a blow to the Trump administration’s fight against the Chinese telecom giant. (NYT)• The SoftBank-backed hotel platform Oyo reported a fourfold increase in revenue and a sixfold rise in its annual loss. (Bloomberg)• Palantir revamped its compensation to give employees bonuses in restricted stock, to save cash ahead of a potential I.P.O. (Bloomberg)Best of the rest• BlackRock has become a symbol for anticapitalist fervor in France (NYT)• The N.B.A. commissioner, Adam Silver, said that the league’s rift with China could cost it up to $400 million in lost revenue. (CNBC)• Have global carbon emissions peaked? The short answer is probably not. (Bloomberg)Thanks for reading! We’ll see you tomorrow.We’d love your feedback. Please email thoughts and suggestions to [email protected]. Read the full article

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mastcomm · 5 years ago

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DealBook: Exclusive Details on Michael Bloomberg’s Plan to Rein in Wall Street

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Bloomberg leans left and takes aim at Wall Street

Among Mr. Bloomberg’s proposals:

• A financial transactions tax of 0.1 percent

• Toughening banking regulations like the Volcker Rule and forcing lenders to hold more in reserve against losses

• Having the Justice Department create a dedicated team to fight corporate crime and “encouraging prosecutors to pursue individuals, not only corporations, for infractions”

• Merging Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

• Strengthening the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and “expanding its jurisdiction to include auto lending and credit reporting”

• Automatically enrolling borrowers of student loans into income-based repayment schemes and capping payments

Many of the proposals are a reversal from Mr. Bloomberg’s previous stance on financial regulation. In 2011, he complained that Democrats were taking “punitive actions” against Wall Street that could harm the economy. And comments he made in 2015 linking the financial crisis to the end of banks’ so-called redlining practices have drawn fierce criticism in recent days.

It’s a sign of how far left Democratic presidential hopefuls feel they need to go to succeed in this year’s primary — even with a multibillion-dollar war chest. Mr. Bloomberg’s financial transactions tax plan is remarkably similar to one that has the backing of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Progressive critics are likely to argue that it doesn’t go far enough. Many Democrats have also proposed some sort of wealth tax, while Ms. Warren has called for a complete overhaul of the private equity industry and Mr. Sanders wants to break up the big banks.

Bloomberg’s campaign insists he isn’t flip-flopping: On the Volcker Rule, for instance, a spokeswoman said: “When it was introduced, as now, Mike was skeptical of regulators’ ability to divine traders’ intent.” His new plan would focus “on the outcome of speculative trading — big gains and losses — rather than on traders’ intent.”

We’ll have more soon on nytimes.com/dealbook.

Breaking: This morning, Mr. Bloomberg qualified for the Democratic debate in Las Vegas on Wednesday night, the first time he will appear onstage with his rivals for the nomination.

____________________________

Today’s DealBook Briefing was written by Andrew Ross Sorkin in New York, and Michael J. de la Merced and Jason Karaian in London.

____________________________

Apple cuts sales guidance over coronavirus

There is more to come. China’s central position in global supply chains — and as a huge market in itself — means that the outbreak could ripple through company’s financials for months.

Good luck, analysts! The virus outbreak’s negative but uncertain effects are coming up often in earnings calls: “Coronavirus” has been cited in 170 investor presentations by S&P 500 companies in the past month, according to a search of transcripts in S&P Capital IQ. Apple’s forecast for future profits was already more vague than usual “due to the greater uncertainty,” Tim Cook, its C.E.O., said last month.

Taking a different approach, Walmart said this morning that its forecast for the current financial year didn’t take into account any potential effects of the virus outbreak.

HSBC makes ‘ruthless’ cuts in U.S. and Europe

The London-based bank said this morning that it planned to cut about 35,000 jobs over the next three years as it retreats from the West to focus more on Asia.

“We are intending to exit a lot of domestically focused customers in Europe and the U.S. on the global banking side,” Ewen Stevenson, the bank’s C.F.O., told Bloomberg Television. He said the lender would make “surgical and ruthless” cuts to underperforming businesses.

The plan is to accelerate investment in its Asian and Middle Eastern businesses, which already generate nearly half of its revenue. That’s the strategy that Standard Chartered, another London-based, Asia-focused bank, has followed.

The initiative may not be enough. Shares in HSBC dropped 3 percent this morning. Alan Higgins, the chief investment officer of Coutts & Company, told Bloomberg that the strategy was “on the conservative side.”

Jeff Bezos pledges $10 billion on climate change

The Amazon chief has announced his biggest charitable donation to date, a fund to study and fight climate change, Karen Weise of the NYT writes.

Mr. Bezos is a latecomer to large-scale charitable giving, starting in 2018 with a $2 billion program to combat homelessness created with his then-wife, MacKenzie.

Amazon has been under pressure to reduce its carbon footprint. It revealed in September that it emitted about 44.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2018, making it one of the world’s top 200 emitters. And employees have called on the company to stop providing services to oil and gas industries.

“One hand cannot give what the other is taking away,” said Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, a group of workers protesting the company’s environmental practices.

Europe’s venture capitalists are getting serious

There are now 99 “unicorns” — VC-backed start-ups worth at least $1 billion — in Europe, compared with 22 five years ago. “Companies are taking on bigger challenges, and there’s more ambition and experience,” Mr. Zennstrom said.

That enabled Atomico to raise more money for its fifth fund than the $750 million it had originally planned. Among the investors in this fund are founders and early employees of Atomico-backed companies like Spotify, the payments company Klarna and the game maker Supercell. Mr. Zennstrom himself is a Swedish billionaire who co-founded Skype.

But Mr. Zennstrom sees hurdles ahead:

• Valuation multiples for European start-ups aren’t as high as those for U.S. companies. (There are twice as many V.C.-backed unicorns in the U.S., according to PwC.) Even so, Mr. Zennstrom said that unlike their American rivals, European start-ups were more focused on creating businesses that can become profitable.

• Although Europe has plenty of gifted coders, getting them to come to a particular start-up — often in a different country — is a challenge.

Mark Zuckerberg calls for global rules for online content

While on a trip to Europe, the Facebook founder suggested that new rules and standards were needed to promote public trust in tech platforms.

“I believe good regulation may hurt Facebook’s business in the near term, but it will be better for everyone, including us, over the long term,” Mr. Zuckerberg wrote in an FT opinion piece. Facebook also published a white paper with “guidelines for future regulation.”

E.U. officials rejected his proposals. “It’s not enough. It’s too slow, it’s too low in terms of responsibility and regulation,” said a European Commissioner. And in response to Mr. Zuckerberg’s opinion piece, George Soros wrote a letter to the FT calling on the C.E.O. to “stop obfuscating the facts by piously arguing for government regulation” and urging him to resign.

The speed read

Deals

• Pier 1 Imports filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. (NYT)

• Univision is reportedly in talks to sell itself to an investor group for about $10 billion, including debt. (WSJ)

• Alstom agreed to buy Bombardier’s train division for up to $6.7 billion to take on China’s CRRC. (Reuters)

• Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway sold a third of its stake in Goldman Sachs and a fifth of its shares in Wells Fargo. (Reuters)

Politics and policy

• The millennial goal of retiring early would be bad news for the Fed if they could manage to do it. (NYT)

• Some employees at Oracle are protesting plans by their C.E.O., Larry Ellison, to hold a fund-raiser for President Trump. (Business Insider)

Tech

• Germany is poised to let Huawei into its 5G wireless network, a blow to the Trump administration’s fight against the Chinese telecom giant. (NYT)

• The SoftBank-backed hotel platform Oyo reported a fourfold increase in revenue and a sixfold rise in its annual loss. (Bloomberg)

• Palantir revamped its compensation to give employees bonuses in restricted stock, to save cash ahead of a potential I.P.O. (Bloomberg)

Best of the rest

• BlackRock has become a symbol for anticapitalist fervor in France (NYT)

• The N.B.A. commissioner, Adam Silver, said that the league’s rift with China could cost it up to $400 million in lost revenue. (CNBC)

• Have global carbon emissions peaked? The short answer is probably not. (Bloomberg)

Thanks for reading! We’ll see you tomorrow.

We’d love your feedback. Please email thoughts and suggestions to [email protected].

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nicholerestrada · 6 years ago

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These 14 startups endorsed by the seed-stage investment firm Pear just hit the fundraising trail

Earlier this week, in a beautiful garden in Woodside, Ca., the team at the five-year-old, seed-stage venture firm Pear hosted it fifth annual demo day. It’s an event that’s limited to roughly 100 VCs who year after year happily fill the space to see what Pear — which has written early checks to the “unicorn” delivery service DoorDash and newly public Guardant Health, among others — has up its sleeve.

As with last year, what those investors wound up seeing on Tuesday was 15 teams, most of them six months old or younger and led by current students or recent graduates who’d been invited by Pear to build companies over ten weeks in its Palo Alto offices. These ranged from a startup with ambitious plans to build a new commercial space station, to a machine learning-powered cloud video platform that makes it far easier to edit video clips, to a startup that uses AI to negotiate salary discussions on behalf of its clients.

But in a bit of a twist, this time around, Pear also featured a sprinkling of young companies that are now ready for Series A funding, including a solar design and sales platform for residential and commercial photovoltaic systems, and a company that thinks its check-out free shopping technology could help all kinds of Amazon rivals compete with the giant’s growing number of surveillance-powered, no-checkout convenience stores.

In case you’re an investor or just someone interested in keeping your thumb on the pulse of what’s happening in emerging tech, herewith is a quick snapshot of each of the companies that were featured as part of the program. (Well, all but one that expressly asked us not to write about what it’s working on. We’ll just tell you that it’s a kind of social network and, remarkably, it feels fresh.)

If you’re interested in reaching out to any of these folks, you can find of all of their email addresses here.

Pre-Seed / Seed

Orion Span

Tagline: The World’s Private Space Station

Describes itself as: What was once the domain of governments is now the domain of private industry. So it was with aviation and now, too, it is with space travel. SpaceX revolutionized the launch business and is worth $27 billion today. Orion Span will do the same with the destination business. Orion Span’s Aurora Station’s patented IP and operational concepts emphasize simplicity, cutting costs in extraordinary ways and improving accessibility in ways never seen before in space station design.

Location: San Mateo, Ca, and Houston, Tx.

Employees: 5

Metrics: Twenty-six space tourists have agreed to put $80,000 each to be on the waitlist; 1,578 media outlets worldwide have covered us; and four partners are signed with three more on the way.

Team: Orion Span includes some of the folks who built the International Space Station. Its CEO is a marketer and entrepreneur with a few startups under his belt. Its architect designed the ISS Enterprise module. It CTO designed and built spacecraft systems for the ISS. And its COO oversaw the build of NASA Orion spacecraft as a former general manager.

Young Alfred

Tagline: Home Insurance Marketplace

Describes itself as: Young Alfred turns the nightmare experience of shopping for home insurance online into an informed, 15-minute transaction. As a customer, you get your top three curated home insurance options from a list of more than 20 carriers and can purchase with just one click. A marketplace model drives transparency, saves money, and leads to five times higher purchase conversion than a single-carrier model.

Locations: Philadelphia and New York

Employees: 6

Metrics: Thousands of applications for home insurance a month, with 24 direct carrier relationships across 13 states.

Team: The founders met during their first week at Wharton Business School. David comes from private equity and has experience acquiring and growing businesses. Jason is an engineer turned high frequency trader who has built trading systems for the likes of Citadel and DRW.

Aligned Carbon

Tagline: Next 1000x computing revolution using carbon nanotube

Describes itself as: Aligned Carbon is the first company to sell carbon nanotube wafers in a way that seamlessly fit into the nanofabrication requirements of the integrated circuit industry. The large historical gains in performance due to continued shrinking of silicon transistors are now only realizing marginal improvements with exponentially increasing costs. This has come at a time with the push for faster and lower power computing capabilities continue to grow rapidly due to AI, AR, big-data analytics and other memory-starved workloads. Monolithic 3D integration is the nanoelectronics industry’s next paradigm for computing and the sequential integration of carbon nanotube logic with traditional silicon logic and memory is the leading technology. Performance and efficiency improvements of over 1000x are anticipated, and Aligned Carbon’s products solve the carbon nanotube materials problem to revolutionize a $500B industry.

Location: Silicon Valley

Employees: 3

Metrics: Aligned Carbon has worked with over a dozen companies and universities while developing their unique carbon nanotube products of interest to the largest chip manufacturers in the world.

Team: Co-founded in 2018 by J Provine, Greg Pitner, and Cara Beasley, three Stanford scientists who met over a shared love for nanotechnology. Collectively they have over 35 years of nanofabrication research experience with universities, start-ups, and corporate giants.

Mirra

Tagline: Mirra creates products and experiences to make no-bullshit skincare easily accessible.

Describes itself as: Mirra is a skincare platform of more than 100,000 beauty nerds who believe that the most important ingredient is transparency. By marrying content, community and commerce, Mirra empowers millennial women with the tools they need to decode the unregulated, $14 billion skincare industry. After releasing a weekly skincare newsletter that grew to more than 100,000 subscribers without ad spend, Mirra is now launching an exclusive line of skincare products.

Location: San Francisco

Employees: undisclosed

Metrics: Mirra’s first product is a weekly skincare newsletter which has grown exponentially without ad spend. Now, after listening to the holes in its readers’ routines, Mirra is launching its own exclusive line of skincare products next year.

Team: Mirra is founded by Katia Ameri, a 26-year-old Stanford alumna with a background in venture capital and consumer products.

Reduct

Tagline: AI-powered cloud video: the power of video, with the ease of text.

Describes itself as: Reduct makes a machine learning-powered cloud video platform that anyone can use. If you can write a text document, you can search, edit, and share video with Reduct. By making tools for video creation accessible to everyone, the company aims to turn everyone’s favorite medium of consumption (the average American watches six hours of video a day) into a ubiquitous mode of communication. The company is currently enabling design & UX research teams to incorporate video into workflows and will create a horizontal product targeting professionals whose profession isn’t video editing.

Location: San Francisco

Employees: 4

Metrics: Since January, the company has acquired 35 paying business customers, including Fortune 500 companies and several technology companies valued at more than $1 billion. It says it has also processed more than 50,000 minutes of video, and customers report time savings of more than ten times what they experience when using traditional video tools.

Team: CEO Prabhas Pokharel studied computer science at Harvard and product design at Stanford, and has spent the last decade creating human-centered products. CTO Robert Ochshorn is a machine learning researcher who has given talks at Google Brian, Apple and Stanford. He is an alum of Cornell CS, and has held research positions at MIT, Harvard, and Alan Kay-initiated CDG Labs.

Zubale

Tagline: A platform that empowers companies to make better product decisions in emerging markets.

Describes itself as: Zubale connects companies directly with consumers on their smartphones to crowdsource multiple digital tasks in exchange for rewards. Companies can crowdsource tasks like in-store audits, product trial activations, and market research studies, and receive real-time intelligence from consumers to make faster and more confident decisions. Consumers complete tasks and earn mobile phone credit and other digital rewards that they can redeem through making online purchases.

Location: Mexico City, Mexico

Employees: 10

Metrics: Zubale launched its mobile app three weeks ago and says it has had more than 20,000 branded tasks completed already by consumers.

Team: The founders, Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy, have over 15 years of expertise developing and selling new products to consumers at Walmart and Procter and Gamble. Allison launched and ran businesses for Walmart in India and led strategic initiatives across 25 countries. Sebastian led sales teams for P&G in Mexico and across Latin America to distribute products to reach the millions of mom and pop shops that make up 50 percent of spend.

Riva

Tagline: Your career advocates – helping the $2.3T job changer market

Describes itself as: Riva builds automation to help the 41 million people who changing jobs every year — and the 5 million college seniors who graduate — negotiate their job offers. Nearly two-thirds of people do not negotiate their job offers. And research shows that women especially tend to suffer in the negotiation process, furthering the gender pay gap. Riva builds software that can predict an employee’s worth and generate negotiation emails and phone scripts that can be used by the employee to negotiate with the employer.

Location: Palo Alto, California

Employees: 7

Metrics: The average increase per negotiation is $23,000. The company is already working with several large partners including schools, engineering communities, and nursing associations to get its product to the mass market.

Team: CEO Stephanie Young has four degrees from Stanford, including an MBA and graduate degree in computer science. She previously helped launch Google AdWords Express’ first ever mobile app.

LivingLab

Tagline: A shared living community offering per-room leases in furnished property.

Describes itself as: LivingLab is a platform that enables co-living in any rental property, making it easy for professionals to find community in shared housing. Our technology matches individuals to bedrooms in beautiful homes and then configures those properties to include furnishings, WiFi, utilities, housekeeping and community events. We can complete this process in 48 hours. By individually pricing rooms and offering flexible lease lengths, LivingLab is able to collect 30 percent of rent for its services.

Location: Durham, North Carolina

Employees: 6

Metrics: LivingLab says it has placed 500 users into 45 residents across 10 properties, generating on average $2,280 in recurring revenue per customer per year.

Team: CEO Mitchel Gorecki, CTO Patrick Wickham, and COO Colin Tai.

Kick It Labs

Tagline: Building consumer apps for high schoolers and college students inspired by youth culture.

Describes itself as: A creative lab that’s launching new consumer social experiences every week, inspired by youth culture, for high schoolers and college students in the pursuit of building the next billion person consumer product.

Location: Palo Alto

Employees: Undisclosed

Metrics: The company says its most promising and exciting experiments to date have centered around street wear, high school social products, and men’s fashion.

Team: Cofounders Akshar Bonu and Sathish Nagappan among others have graduated from Harvard, Cornell, and Stanford and have been building apps for high schoolers and college students for over a decade, they say. They have also spent time at Andrew Ng’s AI Lab, Nervana Systems, Amazon, Google and Intel.

Series A

Aurora Solar

Tagline: Building the operating system of the power source of the future.

Describes itself as: More than $200 billion per year is spent on developing solar projects through a fragmented network of solar installers, who work with financiers, equipment manufacturers, engineering service providers and more. Aurora’s software is used by thousands of solar installers to precisely quote, design and sell solar projects, without visiting the site. With the solar industry forecasted to grow over five times its curren size over the next decade, Aurora will be the platform through which every new solar project is designed, sold, financed and serviced.

Location: San Francisco, CA

Employees: 43

Metrics: More than 50,000 solar projects a month (totaling $3 billion in value) are created on the platform each month. More than1,500,000 solar projects have been created in the company’s software, it says.

Team: CEO/CTO: Christopher Hopper, is a Stanford MBA and MEng from Imperial College; COO/CRO Samuel Adeyemo, is a Stanford MBA/MSc and former portfolio manager for JPMorgan’s Chief Investment Office.

Thinknum

Describes itself as: Thinknum creates datasets from a broad array of public online sources, capturing ephemeral information on the products, operating markets and labor markets of 400,000-plus global companies across sectors, and provides rich toolsets for extracting intelligence. Data sets include pricing trends for individual products at specific retailers, such as electronics and restaurant menu items, to hiring activity across macro industries and particular companies down to the location.

Location: New York, NY

Employees: 18

Metrics: The company says it’s currently seeing $3 million in ARR, thanks to its work with more than 150 corporations and investment firms.

Team: The founders met at Princeton University and worked at Goldman Sachs and a hedge fund before starting Thinknum.

EmCasa

Tagline: Real estate tech brokerage in Brazil

Describes itself as: EmCasa is the only brokerage in Brazil that offers 3D tours in the vast majority of its listings, helping buyers and sellers avoid unnecessary visits. Also, EmCasa is the only brokerage in Brazil that built a proprietary algorithm that offers online property valuations, better managing customer price expectations and providing more accurate listing recommendations. Finally, EmCasa is the only brokerage in Brazil that charges a 3 percent commission on full-service, which is half of what other companies charge.

Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Employees: 18

Metrics: The company says it has 650 active listings currently, versus just 20 in January; it also says its revenue growth rate of 118 percent CQGR.

Team: EmCasa’s CEO, Gustavo Vaz, is a Harvard MBA and was formerly COO of Easy Taxi and Chief Strategy of Frontier Car Group; Gabriel Laet, the company’s CTO/CPO, founded and sold Doubleleft, a gaming and software development company; and Lucas Cardozo, EmCasa’s COO, was a former Bain & Company consultant and the VP of strategy at Brasil Brokers, the second largest Brokerage firm in Brazil.

Polarr

Tagline: Big brains in small devices

Describes itself as: Polarr is a computational photography company that’s focused on computer graphics, computer vision and artificial intelligence. The company has created one of the most successful and two-time best of Apple App Store winning pro photography app; in the meantime, it’s developing its own Polarr Vision Engine for internal usage, as well as helping others to build immersive C.V. experiences on the edge.

Location: San Jose, CA, Beijing, China

Employees: 25

Metrics: Profitable, tripling revenue every year.

Team: Polarr’s CEO, Borui Wang has an M.S. in AI and HCI from Stanford, and is an ex-Googler at Youtube. Polarr’s CTO, Derek Yan, has an M.S. in EE from Stanford, and is an ex-Googler in ATAP.

Zippin

Tagline: Checkout-free shopping for every store.

Describes itself as: Zippin’s vision is to transform retail by banishing checkout lines and self-scanners for good using patent-pending AI, machine learning and sensor future technology. Its technology platform provides checkout-free shopping experience for retailers looking for a solution rivaling Amazon Go’s approach.

Location: San Francisco, CA

Employees: 10

Metrics: Working store in downtown San Francisco, and POCs with several globally recognized retail brands and real estate owners.

Team: CEO Krishna Motukuri has spent more3 than 20 years in retail and e-commerce, including with Amazon and Naspers. Chief Scientist Motilal Agrawal is a computer vision expert from SRI International, where he led and contributed to several products used by U.S. Defense and intelligence agencies. The company’s head of engineering, Abhinav Katiyar, previously spent more than 15 years with VMware.

Pictured above: Pear founders Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson.

Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/28/these-14-startups-endorsed-by-the-seed-stage-investment-firm-pear-just-hit-the-fundraising-trail/

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These 14 startups endorsed by the seed-stage investment firm Pear just hit the fundraising trail

If you’re interested in reaching out to any of these folks, you can find of all of their email addresses here.

Pre-Seed / Seed

Orion Span

Tagline: The World’s Private Space Station

Location: San Mateo, Ca, and Houston, Tx.

Employees: 5

Metrics: Twenty-six space tourists have agreed to put $80,000 each to be on the waitlist; 1,578 media outlets worldwide have covered us; and four partners are signed with three more on the way.

Young Alfred

Tagline: Home Insurance Marketplace

Locations: Philadelphia and New York

Employees: 6

Metrics: Thousands of applications for home insurance a month, with 24 direct carrier relationships across 13 states.

Aligned Carbon

Tagline: Next 1000x computing revolution using carbon nanotube

Location: Silicon Valley

Employees: 3

Metrics: Aligned Carbon has worked with over a dozen companies and universities while developing their unique carbon nanotube products of interest to the largest chip manufacturers in the world.

Mirra

Tagline: Mirra creates products and experiences to make no-bullshit skincare easily accessible.

Location: San Francisco

Employees: undisclosed

Team: Mirra is founded by Katia Ameri, a 26-year-old Stanford alumna with a background in venture capital and consumer products.

Reduct

Tagline: AI-powered cloud video: the power of video, with the ease of text.

Location: San Francisco

Employees: 4

Zubale

Tagline: A platform that empowers companies to make better product decisions in emerging markets.

Location: Mexico City, Mexico

Employees: 10

Metrics: Zubale launched its mobile app three weeks ago and says it has had more than 20,000 branded tasks completed already by consumers.

Riva

Tagline: Your career advocates – helping the $2.3T job changer market

Location: Palo Alto, California

Employees: 7

Team: CEO Stephanie Young has four degrees from Stanford, including an MBA and graduate degree in computer science. She previously helped launch Google AdWords Express’ first ever mobile app.

LivingLab

Tagline: A shared living community offering per-room leases in furnished property.

Location: Durham, North Carolina

Employees: 6

Metrics: LivingLab says it has placed 500 users into 45 residents across 10 properties, generating on average $2,280 in recurring revenue per customer per year.

Team: CEO Mitchel Gorecki, CTO Patrick Wickham, and COO Colin Tai.

Kick It Labs

Tagline: Building consumer apps for high schoolers and college students inspired by youth culture.

Location: Palo Alto

Employees: Undisclosed

Metrics: The company says its most promising and exciting experiments to date have centered around street wear, high school social products, and men’s fashion.

Series A

Aurora Solar

Tagline: Building the operating system of the power source of the future.

Location: San Francisco, CA

Employees: 43

Thinknum

Location: New York, NY

Employees: 18

Metrics: The company says it’s currently seeing $3 million in ARR, thanks to its work with more than 150 corporations and investment firms.

Team: The founders met at Princeton University and worked at Goldman Sachs and a hedge fund before starting Thinknum.

EmCasa

Tagline: Real estate tech brokerage in Brazil

Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Employees: 18

Metrics: The company says it has 650 active listings currently, versus just 20 in January; it also says its revenue growth rate of 118 percent CQGR.

Polarr

Tagline: Big brains in small devices

Location: San Jose, CA, Beijing, China

Employees: 25

Metrics: Profitable, tripling revenue every year.

Team: Polarr’s CEO, Borui Wang has an M.S. in AI and HCI from Stanford, and is an ex-Googler at Youtube. Polarr’s CTO, Derek Yan, has an M.S. in EE from Stanford, and is an ex-Googler in ATAP.

Zippin

Tagline: Checkout-free shopping for every store.

Location: San Francisco, CA

Employees: 10

Metrics: Working store in downtown San Francisco, and POCs with several globally recognized retail brands and real estate owners.

Pictured above: Pear founders Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson.

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INTELLIGENCE HAS BECOME INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT RELATIVE TO WISDOM BECAUSE THERE IS MORE ROOM FOR SPIKES

When languages are designed for other people, it's always a specific group of other people: people not as smart as the language designer. This class of library functions are especially important for throwaway programs, but was pretty much a throwaway program and keep improving it. As Knuth pointed out long ago that speed only matters in certain critical bottlenecks. Another attraction of object-oriented programming in too deeply. Even if they already know it, they're big. But if you look into the hearts of hackers, you'll see that they really love it.1 But lately I've been learning more about how the VC world works, and a programming language has to have a very good profiler, rather than being designed big from the start, like the classic Lisps of the 1970s.2 It's especially good if your application solves some new problem. If an idea is a blueprint, it has to stay popular to stay good.3 That's probably the number one question people ask me. But what is a novelist to do?4 It has sometimes been said that Lisp should use first and rest instead of car and cdr, because it reminds you there is an answer, but it's not much use in practice because the search space is too big.5

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This would be an especially big win in server-based applications. With so much at stake, they have to be devious. But this is old news to Lisp programmers. It is, alas, an atrociously bad one. Programs composed of expressions. Software varies in the same way. Programming languages are how people talk to computers. Someone riding a Segway looks like a dork. Using big abstractions you can write the first version of a program very quickly.11 One thing we'll need is support for the new way that server-based software blows away this whole model. At the moment I'd almost say that a language has to be right.12 A throwaway program is a program you write is code that's specific to your application.

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TechCrunch Disrupt is the world’s biggest and most impactful tech startup conference, and this year, we’re upping the stakes even more. Taking place at Moscone West, Disrupt SF will feature the biggest names in tech, from Reid Hoffman to Kirsten Green to Dara Khosrowshahi.

The agenda will have something for everyone.

Into transportation tech? We’ll be joined by Cruise’s Kyle Vogt, BMW’s Dieter May, and Uber’s new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. Want to learn more about AI? Kai-Fu Lee from Sinovation and Clinc’s Jason Mars have plenty to show off. Or maybe you’re into cryptocurrencies? Well, we’ve got Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse, Arrington XRP Capital’s Michael Arrington, Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong, and SEC SF Regional Director Jina Choi.

And that only scratches the surface.

Alongside the Main Stage agenda, we’ll also have the Next Stage with longer sessions and more panelists. This will give attendees the opportunity to dive deep on a particular subject.

We’re very proud of the show we’ve put together and are thrilled to give you a look at what’s in store.

Editor’s Note: Not all of our speakers are included on this agenda as we like to keep a couple tricks up our sleeves. ;)

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH

Early Morning

How Did I Get Here by Cyan Banister (Founders Fund)

Founders Fund Partner Cyan Banister tells her surprising origin story and explains how people, not processes, were the key to her success. Main Stage @ 9:05AM

Beyond Moonshots with Alan Stern (NASA)

Alan Stern has overseen ambitious projects from NASA’s New Horizons Pluto mission to Moon Express’s attempt at a privately developed lunar landing. Hear what’s next for interplanetary exploration and commercialization from an aerospace veteran. Next Stage @ 9:05AM

Gaming’s Next Respawn with John Riccitiello (Unity Technologies)

Unity wants to turn consumers into creators. Hear CEO John Riccitiello explain how his company’s gaming engine is making that possible by building development tools accessible to anyone. Main Stage @ 9:25AM

Rewriting Life’s Future with Rachel Haurwitz (Caribou Biosciences)

A fireside chat with Rachel Haurwitz, the chief executive and founder of Caribou Biosciences and one of the patent holders for CRISPR — the gene editing technology that may rewrite life as we know it. Next Stage @ 9:25AM

Insuring the Future with Mario Schlosser (Oscar Health) and Daniel Schreiber (Lemonade)

Two leading insuretech CEOs will discuss the challenges and opportunities of building a company in one of the world’s most sclerotic industries. Next Stage @ 9:45AM

Late Morning

From Private to Public with Drew Houston (Dropbox)

Dropbox’s CEO spent more than 10 years preparing his cloud storage company to go public; he’ll talk about what kept him going and where Dropbox goes from here. Main Stage @ 10:05AM

Beyond Startup Battlefield with Bobby Lo (Vurb), Aaron Patzer (Vital Software) and Michelle Zatlyn (Cloudflare)

Participating in the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield can give your startup a distinct advantage. We talk to several Battlefield alumni and find out how the experience affected them. Next Stage @ 10:10AM

Decoding the DNA Opportunity with Anne Wojcicki (23andMe)

Anne Wojcicki co-founded 23andMe to empower consumers with their genetic information. Now, 12 years after its founding, hear from CEO Wojcicki on the tremendous opportunities that can be unlocked by genetic testing. Main Stage @ 10:50AM

The Promise and Perils of Early Branding with Emily Heyward (Red Antler), Philip Krim (Casper) and Tina Sharkey (Brandless)

Building a brand isn’t as simple as choosing a color scheme and designing a logo. Emily Heyward, Philip Krim and Tina Sharkey are experts in the business. Listen as they share their insights. Next Stage @ 11:05AM

The Race to Win at AI: A Cross-Border View with Kai-Fu Lee (Sinovation Ventures)

Distinguished technologist and investor, Kai-Fu Lee on his provocative, forthcoming book, “AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and The New World Order.” (Dr. Lee will also participate in a separate audience Q&A session after this interview.) Main Stage @ 11:15AM

Making Sound Investments with Ashton Kutcher and Effie Epstein (Sound Ventures)

Sound Ventures partners Ashton Kutcher and Effie Epstein on their firm’s investment thesis, the influence of celebrity status, and more in this wide-ranging interview. Main Stage @ 11:35AM

Advancing Equity in Silicon Valley: In Conversation with Arlan Hamilton (Backstage Capital) and Aniyia Williams (Black & Brown Founders)

Silicon Valley does not have a good track record when it comes to diversity and inclusion. Companies point to the “pipeline problem” as the culprit. But that’s a myth. Hear Arlan Hamilton and Aniyia Williams discuss how black and Latinx founders can take a bigger share of Silicon Valley’s money. Next Stage @ 11:50AM

Afternoon

Back in Fashion with Sophia Amoruso (Girlboss)

Sophia Amoruso founded and ran Nasty Gal and, along the way, turned her book Girlboss and Netflix series into a media company. Amoruso will sit down with former TechCrunch co-editor Alexia Bonatsos to discuss the challenges facing young executives of startups. Main Stage @ 1:00PM

Hardware (Investing) is Hard with Peter Barrett (Playground Global), Helen Boniske (Lemnos Labs) and Cyril Ebersweiler (Hax)

Three top hardware VCs discuss how AI, better sensors and GPUs, and the changing labor markets are remaking the robotics world. Next Stage @ 1:15PM

Live Demo with Jason Mars (Clinc)

See the latest in conversational artificial intelligence with this startup out of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Main Stage @ 1:20PM

Defending the Future with Marillyn Hewson (Lockheed Martin)

As the CEO of Lockheed Martin, Marillyn Hewson has the tall order of leading the massive technology company in the age of Trump. Hear about the company’s latest efforts in artificial intelligence and space travel from the 35-year veteran of the company. Main Stage @ 1:35PM

Building the Car of Tomorrow, Today with Reilly Brennan (Trucks VC), Chris Urmson (Aurora) and others to be announced

Hear a discussion around regulations, technology and processes that need to be in place before self-driving cars can become a reality. Next Stage @ 1:40PM

Introduction to Startup Battlefield

Startup Battlefield host Anthony Ha explains the rules. Main Stage @ 2:05PM

Launching a New Space Economy with Natalya Bailey (Accion Systems), Peter Beck (Rocket Labs) and Will Marshall (Planet)

As rockets and satellites proliferate, Natalya Bailey, Peter Beck and Will Marshall will discuss how a new space economy is being built with room for nations and startups alike. Next Stage @ 2:05PM

Startup Battlefield Competition – Flight #1

TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Main Stage @ 2:10PM

In Conversation with Avichal Garg (Electric Capital) and others to be announced

Electric Capital’s Avichal Garg and others discuss all the variables that go along with an Initial Coin Offering. Next Stage @ 2:50PM

Early Evening

From Blockchain to Banking with Brad Garlinghouse (Ripple) and Michael Arrington (Arrington XRP Capital, founder, TechCrunch)

What sets XRP apart from the rest of the crypto crowd, and what’s in store for this intriguing, if volatile, category? Main Stage @ 3:00PM

Venture Capital in 2018 with Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), Megan Quinn (Spark Capital), Sarah Tavel (Benchmark Capital)

Hear three leading venture capitalists talk about the trends impacting, and in some cases roiling, the business of investing in startups. Main Stage @ 3:25PM

Reaching The Next Gamers with Roblox’s David Baszucki (Roblox)

The founder and CEO of Roblox built one of the most popular gaming platforms of this generation. During his fireside chat he’s set to talk about building a brand that’s embraced by younger players, and why Roblox is moving into education. Main Stage @ 4:10PM

Deliverance with DoorDash’s Tony Xu

As long as people are hungry and busy, food delivery will continue to have a huge market. All the same, it’s also a fiercely competitive business, with hundreds of me-too offerings, and hundreds more variants on the basic model. Hear from the founder and CEO of one of the leading startups in that space, DoorDash, talk about how he built a startup that stands apart from the fray and where it will go next. Next Stage @ 4:35PM

The Future of Finance with Jina Choi (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, San Francisco)

Jina Choi is the director of the SEC’s San Francisco Regional Office where she sits at the epicenter of startups and finance. In this wide-ranging discussion we’ll explore what it takes to regulate, manage, and grow the financial world in a place where the rules change every minute. Main Stage @ 4:50PM

The Screen Is The Most Important Place In The World with Clark Valberg (InVision)

Prototyping an app or website used to take far too long. InVision’s collaboration and design software have changed that, but will it be enough to dethrone Adobe? Next Stage @ 4:55PM

Startup Battlefield Competition – Flight #2

TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Main Stage @ 5:10PM

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6TH

Early Morning

Product Launch and Fireside Chat Dieter May (BMW)

Watch the unveiling of BMW’s next innovation and hear what it took to build the technology. Main Stage @ 9:05AM

Running Toward Connected Fitness with John Foley (Peloton)

Peloton has transformed the fitness game with its internet-connected stationary bikes. Founder and CEO John Foley will join us to discuss the unicorn company’s rapid growth in the world of high-tech fitness. Next Stage @ 9:05AM

Finding the Next Silicon Valley with Doug Leone (Sequoia)

Hear how the global managing partner of Sequoia Capital helped set an overseas strategy — and cemented the firm’s status for years to come in this wide-ranging fireside chat with a icon in venture capital. Main Stage @ 9:25AM

Out of Prison, Off the Streets

Strong communities inside and outside of prison can help foster success. Hear from Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins (Promise), Rose Afriyie (mRelief), Frederick Hutson (Pigeonly) and Neil Shah about how tech can help empower inmates and create pathways to success in communities. Next Stage @ 9:25AM

A Very Busy Bee with Whitney Wolfe Herd (Bumble)

As the founder and CEO of one of the hottest dating apps, Whitney Wolfe Herd is set to discuss Bumble’s rapid growth, expansion into new verticals, and the company’s unconventional strategy around funding. Main Stage @ 9:45AM

Security in the Age of AI with Nicole Eagan (Darktrace) and Fengmin Gong (DiDi Labs)

Machine learning can help companies better protect their networks, but it also provides attackers with new tools. DiDi Labs Security VP Fengmin Gong and Darktrace CEO Nicole Eagan will discuss how their companies use these new technologies to keep hackers at bay and how others can do the same to keep their systems secure. Next Stage @ 9:50AM

Moonshot Philanthropy with Priscilla Chan (Chan Zuckerberg Initiative)

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative co-founder Priscilla Chan will discuss how tech giants can fund the next era of charity, balancing global giving with local causes, and funding social good startups to create a sustainable positive impact. Main Stage @ 10:10AM

Having Space in the Fund with Rob Coneybeer (Shasta Ventures), Tess Hatch (Bessemer Venture Partners) and Matt Ocko (DCVC)

They wanted moonshots, and now they have them. Hear from three top VCs on how space is no longer the final frontier of investing. Next Stage @ 10:10AM

Late Morning

10:50 AM – 11:20 AM Uber, One Year Later with Dara Khosrowshahi (Uber)

Dara Khosrowshahi joined Uber last September following the ouster of then-CEO Travis Kalanick. It’s been a year since Khosrowshahi has taken the helm, and it’s time to talk about the challenges so far. Main Stage @ 10:50AM

Fireside Chat with Nikolay Storonsky (Revolut)

Nikolay Storonsky took his company from a $350 million valuation to a $1.7 billion valuation in under six months. Hear how he did it. Next Stage @ 11:05AM

Investing Outside the Valley with Steve Case (Revolution) and J.D. Vance (Rise of the Rest)

Aol co-founder Steve Case and best-selling author J.D. Vance are on a quest to find and fund startups throughout the United States. With a fresh $150 million ready to invest, hear why the pair is bullish on startups operating outside of Silicon Valley. Main Stage @ 11:20AM

The Art of Scaling with Reid Hoffman (Greylock)

As PayPal’s COO, LinkedIn’s co-founder, and a Greylock partner, Reid Hoffman turns ideas into world-changing companies. Hear his thoughts on tomorrow’s startup opportunities, today’s industry problems, and evergreen strategies to improve your business. Main Stage @ 11:40AM

Answering the Door with Jamie Siminoff (Ring)

Hardware is hard but Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff makes it look easy. Siminoff took the company from upstart to Amazon-owned in a few short years. How do you keep hardware fresh and how do you ensure privacy and security in a world of IoT? Siminoff has some ideas. Next Stage @ 11:50AM

Afternoon

Electronic Apparel Demo with Rich Mahoney (Seismic)

Seismic founder and CEO Rich Mahoney will debut the latest version of his startup’s powered clothing. Through a combination of textiles and robotics, Seismic’s garments are a kind of soft robotic exoskeleton. The suit’s electro-mechanical muscles increase the wearer’s mobility, while remaining discreet under their clothing. Next Stage @ 1:05PM

Taking on Silicon Valley with Marty Chavez (Goldman Sachs)

Goldman Sachs is taking over the tech world through engineering (and not the financial kind); we’ll talk with its CFO (and former COO) about the banking giant’s road map through Silicon Valley. Main Stage @ 1:20PM

United in Discord with Jason Citron (Discord)

Hear CEO Jason Citron talk about how the company he founded dominated an emerging market for messaging and leveled up online gaming by erasing the stereotype of the lonely gamer. Next Stage @ 1:20PM

Fireside Chat with Baiju Bhatt (Robinhood)

Hear how Robinhood figured out how to woo a younger audience into investing. But the startup, now worth $5.6 billion, can’t just remain a free stock trading app if it wants to become a next-generation financial institution — and it’s now looking to take over the whole notion of an investment portfolio including with cryptocurrency. Main Stage @ 1:40PM

Building for Voice with Jason Mars (Clinc) and Alex Smola (Amazon Web Services)

Once upon a time, we used our voices for the vast majority of our communication. And then came the written word, and then came the internet. But everything old is new again. Hear from Jason Mars and Alex Smola as they discuss how voice may be the next dominant interface and how to build for that future. Next Stage @ 1:40PM

Startup Battlefield – Flight #3

TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Battlefield Cup and $50,000. Main Stage @ 2:05PM

Connecting the Blocks with Sam Cassatt, Amanda Gutterman and Joseph Lubin (Consensys)

There is perhaps no firm that has done as much to promote the adoption of Ethereum as the dominant cryptocurrency platform for actual product development as Consensys. Hear the firm’s leaders discuss the possibilities of Ethereum and share their insights. Main Stage @ 2:55PM

Fireside Chat with Michael Rubin (Fanatics)

Hear serial entrepreneur Michael Rubin talk about what it’s like to run an e-commerce business worth billions. Next Stage @ 2:50PM

Early Evening

The Sky’s the Limit with Chris Anderson (3DR), Adam Bry (Skydio), Laura Major (CyPhy) and Arnaud Thiercelin (DJI)

The drone revolution has just begun. From hobbyists to agriculture to the military, UAVs are set to have a profound impact on our economy and lives. Chris Anderson, Adam Bry and Arnaud Thiercelin will discuss the potential impact — and roadblocks — drones will face in the coming years. Next Stage @ 3:30PM

Driving Self-Driving Cars with Kyle Vogt (Cruise)

Fresh off a $2 billion investment from Softbank, hear a discussion with the CEO and co-founder of Cruise on building a self-driving startup, working through regulations and working as a startup within a massive company like General Motors. Main Stage @ 3:40PM

Building Successful E-Commerce with Warby Parker’s David Gilboa

Warby Parker’s co-founder and co-CEO David Gilboa launched and scaled Warby Parker to become an iconic eyeglass brand. He’ll fill us in on what it took to build the e-commerce company in the age of Amazon. Main Stage @ 4:00PM

Scooting Through Regulation with Emily Warren (Lime) and others to be announced

Emily Warren, formerly of Lyft’s transportation policy, joined Lime in early 2018 to help navigate the murky waters of on-demand transportation. Now that she’s settled in, we’ll learn what makes scooters and bikes trickier to navigate than on-demand car rides. Next Stage @ 4:15PM

Even Harder Things with Ben Horowitz (Andreessen Horowitz)

The renowned A16z investor and startup whisperer will sit down to discuss the hard things facing founders right now and how he feels they should overcome them. Main Stage @ 4:20PM

Launch and Demo with Brynn Putnam (Mirror)

Watch the unveiling of Mirror, which aims to redefine personal fitness. Main Stage @ 4:40PM

Why Chinese Tech Companies Go Public in the U.S. with Hans Tung (GGV Capital) and Yi Wang (LingoChamp)

Will the Belt and Road initiative pave over U.S. capital markets? GGV Capital managing partner Hans Tung and Yi Wang the CEO of Liulishuo discuss Chinese tech companies’ road to public markets in the U.S. Next Stage @ 5:05PM

Startup Battlefield – Flight #4

TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Main Stage @ 5:15PM

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7TH

Early Morning

Beauty and the Beat with Emily Weiss (Glossier) and Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures)

Cosmetics company Glossier got its start as a spinoff of a beauty blog, Into the Gloss, and both have become that rare thing in the world of startups, breakout hits. Hear from the mastermind behind both, Emily Weiss and her star investor Kirsten Green, about how the two were built, and why they don’t worry about being beat by Amazon. Main Stage @ 9:05AM

The Power and the Promise of 5G with Chaitanya Kanojia (Starry) and others to be announced

5G has been on the horizon for years, and it looks like it’s almost here. What does that mean? Will it be the technological leap we’ve been waiting for? Next Stage @ 9:05AM

Quantum Supremacy with Dario Gil (IBM)

IBM has long been at the forefront of quantum computing research. Dr. Dario Gil heads up IBM’s AI research efforts and commercial quantum computing program. We’ll talk about what quantum computing is, what it means for the future of tech and how we can separate hype from reality. Main Stage @ 9:30AM

Dismantling Algorithmic Bias with Patrick Ball (HRDAG), Brian Brackeen (Kairos) and Kristian Lum (HRDAG)

We often hear of racist and biased algorithms, but what does it take to ensure the algorithms used to make decisions about potentially life-changing circumstances like bail and policing are fair? And what does fair even mean? Human Rights Data Analysis data scientists Patrick Ball and Kristian Lum are going to help answer those questions. Next Stage @ 9:45AM

Building a Quantum Computing startup with Chad Rigetti (Rigetti Computing)

Rigetti Computing wants to make quantum computing available to every developer. To do that, the well-funded startup is building its own quantum computers that will compete with those of its bigger competitors. Rigetti Founder and CEO Chad Rigetti will join us to talk about the challenges of building a quantum computer in 2018 and where the company is going next. Main Stage @ 9:50AM

Printing the Next Footwear Joseph DeSimone (Carbon) and Eric Liedtke (Adidas)

Carbon’s unique technology has already printed thousands of Adidas 3D Futurecraft sneakers, with plans to expand into the millions. Hear executives from both companies talk about using technology to design soles that can’t be created with more traditional methods. Main Stage @ 10:10AM

Y Combinator Do’s and Don’ts: In Conversation with Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel (Y Combinator)

Y Combinator fundamentally changed the investing game circa 2007 with its approach of taking shots in the dark on a wide array of companies. That strategy finally paid off earlier this year when Dropbox went public, a “dream come true” for the firm. But now there are dozens of accelerators and an at-times ridiculous amount of seed capital available — so it comes down to what Y Combinator can offer its founders and where it thinks the whole idea of an “accelerator” is going. Next Stage @ 10:10AM

Late Morning

Creating A Monster with Mike Judge (HBO’s Silicon Valley)

No show has done a better job of portraying Silicon Valley than… well, Silicon Valley. Co-creator Mike Judge talks about the show’s monster success. Plus, what’s new for Season 6? Main Stage @ 11:15AM

Demo with Brian Brackeen (Kairos)

Facial recognition is coming whether we like or not, but Kairos CEO Brian Brackeen is particularly cautious about how this technology might be used. Main Stage @ 11:35AM

In Conversation with Laura Deming (The Longevity Fund), Arvind Gupta (SOSV), Nina Kjellson (Canaan Partners)

Join us to discuss what’s overhyped and underfunded in the world in the world of biotech investing.

Next Stage @ 11:45AM

The Future of African Tech with Tayo Oviosu (Paga) and others to be announced.

Elite members of Africa’s startup landscape like Paga Payments chief executive Tayo Oviosu talk to us about the challenges and opportunities in one of the newest (and most exciting) emerging markets for tech entrepreneurship. Main Stage @ 11:50AM

Afternoon

Are Fat Rounds Eating the Lean Startup? with Eric Ries (author, The Lean Startup) and David Hornik (August Capital)

In an era of multi-billion dollar investment rounds and hundred billion dollar funds can a lean startup survive? Eric Ries, the architect of the lean startup model, and David Hornik, the managing partner of August Capital, will help us find out. Next Stage @ 1:10PM

Startup Battlefield Alumni Update

Battlefield startups from the past return to the stage to tell us what they’ve been up to since they competed for the Disrupt Cup. Main Stage @ 1:15PM

Extinguishing Silicon Valley’s Trash Fire with Danielle Brown (Google) and Bo Young Lee (Uber)

Uber and Google’s respective heads of diversity have been busy. While Uber looked to recover from a year of sexual harassment allegations, Google had some problems of its own. We’ll hear from Uber’s Bo Young Lee and Google’s Danielle Brown about how each company is trying to make amends. Next Stage @ 1:35PM

Startup Battlefield Final

TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Main Stage @ 1:40PM

Hackathon Finals

Finalists from our first-ever virtual Hackathon will take the stage to pitch their wares. Next Stage @ 2:00PM

How Coinbase Keeps Building with Brian Armstrong (Coinbase)

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has kept his company going through booms and busts. In this one-on-one we’ll explore what Coinbase did to keep its focus on providing cryptocurrency services. Main Stage @ 3:20PM

Launch and Demo with Delane Parnell (PlayVS)

Hear from Delane Parnell about the evolution of esports, and check out the high school esports platform for the very first time. Main Stage @ 3:40PM

Early Evening

Startup Battlefield Closing Awards Ceremony

Watch the crowning of the latest winner of Startup Battlefield. Main Stage @ 4:15PM

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Announcing the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 Agenda – TechCrunch

The agenda will have something for everyone.

And that only scratches the surface.

Alongside the Main Stage agenda, we’ll also have the Next Stage with longer sessions and more panelists. This will give attendees the opportunity to dive deep on a particular subject.

We’re very proud of the show we’ve put together and are thrilled to give you a look at what’s in store.

Editor’s Note: Not all of our speakers are included on this agenda as we like to keep a couple tricks up our sleeves. ;)

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH

Early Morning

How Did I Get Here by Cyan Banister (Founders Fund)

Founders Fund Partner Cyan Banister tells her surprising origin story and explains how people, not processes, were the key to her success. Main Stage @ 9:05AM

Beyond Moonshots with Alan Stern (NASA)

Gaming’s Next Respawn with John Riccitiello (Unity Technologies)

Rewriting Life’s Future with Rachel Haurwitz (Caribou Biosciences)

Insuring the Future with Mario Schlosser (Oscar Health) and Daniel Schreiber (Lemonade)

Two leading insuretech CEOs will discuss the challenges and opportunities of building a company in one of the world’s most sclerotic industries. Next Stage @ 9:45AM

Late Morning

From Private to Public with Drew Houston (Dropbox)

Dropbox’s CEO spent more than 10 years preparing his cloud storage company to go public; he’ll talk about what kept him going and where Dropbox goes from here. Main Stage @ 10:05AM

Beyond Startup Battlefield with Bobby Lo (Vurb), Aaron Patzer (Vital Software) and Michelle Zatlyn (Cloudflare)

Decoding the DNA Opportunity with Anne Wojcicki (23andMe)

The Promise and Perils of Early Branding with Emily Heyward (Red Antler), Philip Krim (Casper) and Tina Sharkey (Brandless)

The Race to Win at AI: A Cross-Border View with Kai-Fu Lee (Sinovation Ventures)

Making Sound Investments with Ashton Kutcher and Effie Epstein (Sound Ventures)

Sound Ventures partners Ashton Kutcher and Effie Epstein on their firm’s investment thesis, the influence of celebrity status, and more in this wide-ranging interview. Main Stage @ 11:35AM

Advancing Equity in Silicon Valley: In Conversation with Arlan Hamilton (Backstage Capital) and Aniyia Williams (Black & Brown Founders)

Afternoon

Back in Fashion with Sophia Amoruso (Girlboss)

Hardware (Investing) is Hard with Peter Barrett (Playground Global), Helen Boniske (Lemnos Labs) and Cyril Ebersweiler (Hax)

Three top hardware VCs discuss how AI, better sensors and GPUs, and the changing labor markets are remaking the robotics world. Next Stage @ 1:15PM

Live Demo with Jason Mars (Clinc)

See the latest in conversational artificial intelligence with this startup out of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Main Stage @ 1:20PM

Defending the Future with Marillyn Hewson (Lockheed Martin)

Building the Car of Tomorrow, Today with Reilly Brennan (Trucks VC), Chris Urmson (Aurora) and others to be announced

Hear a discussion around regulations, technology and processes that need to be in place before self-driving cars can become a reality. Next Stage @ 1:40PM

Introduction to Startup Battlefield

Startup Battlefield host Anthony Ha explains the rules. Main Stage @ 2:05PM

Launching a New Space Economy with Natalya Bailey (Accion Systems), Peter Beck (Rocket Labs) and Will Marshall (Planet)

As rockets and satellites proliferate, Natalya Bailey, Peter Beck and Will Marshall will discuss how a new space economy is being built with room for nations and startups alike. Next Stage @ 2:05PM

Startup Battlefield Competition – Flight #1

TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Main Stage @ 2:10PM

In Conversation with Avichal Garg (Electric Capital) and others to be announced

Electric Capital’s Avichal Garg and others discuss all the variables that go along with an Initial Coin Offering. Next Stage @ 2:50PM

Early Evening

From Blockchain to Banking with Brad Garlinghouse (Ripple) and Michael Arrington (Arrington XRP Capital, founder, TechCrunch)

What sets XRP apart from the rest of the crypto crowd, and what’s in store for this intriguing, if volatile, category? Main Stage @ 3:00PM

Venture Capital in 2018 with Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), Megan Quinn (Spark Capital), Sarah Tavel (Benchmark Capital)

Hear three leading venture capitalists talk about the trends impacting, and in some cases roiling, the business of investing in startups. Main Stage @ 3:25PM

Reaching The Next Gamers with Roblox’s David Baszucki (Roblox)

Deliverance with DoorDash’s Tony Xu

The Future of Finance with Jina Choi (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, San Francisco)

The Screen Is The Most Important Place In The World with Clark Valberg (InVision)

Prototyping an app or website used to take far too long. InVision’s collaboration and design software have changed that, but will it be enough to dethrone Adobe? Next Stage @ 4:55PM

Startup Battlefield Competition – Flight #2

TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Main Stage @ 5:10PM

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6TH

Early Morning

Product Launch and Fireside Chat Dieter May (BMW)

Watch the unveiling of BMW’s next innovation and hear what it took to build the technology. Main Stage @ 9:05AM

Running Toward Connected Fitness with John Foley (Peloton)

Finding the Next Silicon Valley with Doug Leone (Sequoia)

Out of Prison, Off the Streets

A Very Busy Bee with Whitney Wolfe Herd (Bumble)

Security in the Age of AI with Nicole Eagan (Darktrace) and Fengmin Gong (DiDi Labs)

Moonshot Philanthropy with Priscilla Chan (Chan Zuckerberg Initiative)

Having Space in the Fund with Rob Coneybeer (Shasta Ventures), Tess Hatch (Bessemer Venture Partners) and Matt Ocko (DCVC)

They wanted moonshots, and now they have them. Hear from three top VCs on how space is no longer the final frontier of investing. Next Stage @ 10:10AM

Late Morning

10:50 AM – 11:20 AM Uber, One Year Later with Dara Khosrowshahi (Uber)

Fireside Chat with Nikolay Storonsky (Revolut)

Nikolay Storonsky took his company from a $350 million valuation to a $1.7 billion valuation in under six months. Hear how he did it. Next Stage @ 11:05AM

Investing Outside the Valley with Steve Case (Revolution) and J.D. Vance (Rise of the Rest)

The Art of Scaling with Reid Hoffman (Greylock)

Answering the Door with Jamie Siminoff (Ring)

Afternoon

Electronic Apparel Demo with Rich Mahoney (Seismic)

Taking on Silicon Valley with Marty Chavez (Goldman Sachs)

United in Discord with Jason Citron (Discord)

Hear CEO Jason Citron talk about how the company he founded dominated an emerging market for messaging and leveled up online gaming by erasing the stereotype of the lonely gamer. Next Stage @ 1:20PM

Fireside Chat with Baiju Bhatt (Robinhood)

Building for Voice with Jason Mars (Clinc) and Alex Smola (Amazon Web Services)

Startup Battlefield – Flight #3

TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Battlefield Cup and $50,000. Main Stage @ 2:05PM

Connecting the Blocks with Sam Cassatt, Amanda Gutterman and Joseph Lubin (Consensys)

Fireside Chat with Michael Rubin (Fanatics)

Hear serial entrepreneur Michael Rubin talk about what it’s like to run an e-commerce business worth billions. Next Stage @ 2:50PM

Early Evening

The Sky’s the Limit with Chris Anderson (3DR), Adam Bry (Skydio), Laura Major (CyPhy) and Arnaud Thiercelin (DJI)

Driving Self-Driving Cars with Kyle Vogt (Cruise)

Building Successful E-Commerce with Warby Parker’s David Gilboa

Scooting Through Regulation with Emily Warren (Lime) and others to be announced

Even Harder Things with Ben Horowitz (Andreessen Horowitz)

The renowned A16z investor and startup whisperer will sit down to discuss the hard things facing founders right now and how he feels they should overcome them. Main Stage @ 4:20PM

Launch and Demo with Brynn Putnam (Mirror)

Watch the unveiling of Mirror, which aims to redefine personal fitness. Main Stage @ 4:40PM

Why Chinese Tech Companies Go Public in the U.S. with Hans Tung (GGV Capital) and Yi Wang (LingoChamp)

Startup Battlefield – Flight #4

TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Main Stage @ 5:15PM

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7TH

Early Morning

Beauty and the Beat with Emily Weiss (Glossier) and Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures)

The Power and the Promise of 5G with Chaitanya Kanojia (Starry) and others to be announced

5G has been on the horizon for years, and it looks like it’s almost here. What does that mean? Will it be the technological leap we’ve been waiting for? Next Stage @ 9:05AM

Quantum Supremacy with Dario Gil (IBM)

Dismantling Algorithmic Bias with Patrick Ball (HRDAG), Brian Brackeen (Kairos) and Kristian Lum (HRDAG)

Building a Quantum Computing startup with Chad Rigetti (Rigetti Computing)

Printing the Next Footwear Joseph DeSimone (Carbon) and Eric Liedtke (Adidas)

Y Combinator Do’s and Don’ts: In Conversation with Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel (Y Combinator)

Late Morning

Creating A Monster with Mike Judge (HBO’s Silicon Valley)

Demo with Brian Brackeen (Kairos)

Facial recognition is coming whether we like or not, but Kairos CEO Brian Brackeen is particularly cautious about how this technology might be used. Main Stage @ 11:35AM

In Conversation with Laura Deming (The Longevity Fund), Arvind Gupta (SOSV), Nina Kjellson (Canaan Partners)

Join us to discuss what’s overhyped and underfunded in the world in the world of biotech investing.

Next Stage @ 11:45AM

The Future of African Tech with Tayo Oviosu (Paga) and others to be announced.

Afternoon

Are Fat Rounds Eating the Lean Startup? with Eric Ries (author, The Lean Startup) and David Hornik (August Capital)

Startup Battlefield Alumni Update

Battlefield startups from the past return to the stage to tell us what they’ve been up to since they competed for the Disrupt Cup. Main Stage @ 1:15PM

Extinguishing Silicon Valley’s Trash Fire with Danielle Brown (Google) and Bo Young Lee (Uber)

Startup Battlefield Final

TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Main Stage @ 1:40PM

Hackathon Finals

Finalists from our first-ever virtual Hackathon will take the stage to pitch their wares. Next Stage @ 2:00PM

How Coinbase Keeps Building with Brian Armstrong (Coinbase)

Launch and Demo with Delane Parnell (PlayVS)

Hear from Delane Parnell about the evolution of esports, and check out the high school esports platform for the very first time. Main Stage @ 3:40PM

Early Evening

Watch the crowning of the latest winner of Startup Battlefield. Main Stage @ 4:15PM

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Announcing the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 Agenda – TechCrunch

The agenda will have something for everyone.

And that only scratches the surface.

Alongside the Main Stage agenda, we’ll also have the Next Stage with longer sessions and more panelists. This will give attendees the opportunity to dive deep on a particular subject.

We’re very proud of the show we’ve put together and are thrilled to give you a look at what’s in store.

Editor’s Note: Not all of our speakers are included on this agenda as we like to keep a couple tricks up our sleeves. 😉

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH

Early Morning

How Did I Get Here by Cyan Banister (Founders Fund)

Founders Fund Partner Cyan Banister tells her surprising origin story and explains how people, not processes, were the key to her success. Main Stage @ 9:05AM

Beyond Moonshots with Alan Stern (NASA)

Gaming’s Next Respawn with John Riccitiello (Unity Technologies)

Rewriting Life’s Future with Rachel Haurwitz (Caribou Biosciences)

Insuring the Future with Mario Schlosser (Oscar Health) and Daniel Schreiber (Lemonade)

Two leading insuretech CEOs will discuss the challenges and opportunities of building a company in one of the world’s most sclerotic industries. Next Stage @ 9:45AM

Late Morning

From Private to Public with Drew Houston (Dropbox)

Dropbox’s CEO spent more than 10 years preparing his cloud storage company to go public; he’ll talk about what kept him going and where Dropbox goes from here. Main Stage @ 10:05AM

Beyond Startup Battlefield with Bobby Lo (Vurb), Aaron Patzer (Vital Software) and Michelle Zatlyn (Cloudflare)

Decoding the DNA Opportunity with Anne Wojcicki (23andMe)

The Promise and Perils of Early Branding with Emily Heyward (Red Antler), Philip Krim (Casper) and Tina Sharkey (Brandless)

The Race to Win at AI: A Cross-Border View with Kai-Fu Lee (Sinovation Ventures)

Making Sound Investments with Ashton Kutcher and Effie Epstein (Sound Ventures)

Sound Ventures partners Ashton Kutcher and Effie Epstein on their firm’s investment thesis, the influence of celebrity status, and more in this wide-ranging interview. Main Stage @ 11:35AM

Advancing Equity in Silicon Valley: In Conversation with Arlan Hamilton (Backstage Capital) and Aniyia Williams (Black & Brown Founders)

Afternoon

Back in Fashion with Sophia Amoruso (Girlboss)

Hardware (Investing) is Hard with Peter Barrett (Playground Global), Helen Boniske (Lemnos Labs) and Cyril Ebersweiler (Hax)

Three top hardware VCs discuss how AI, better sensors and GPUs, and the changing labor markets are remaking the robotics world. Next Stage @ 1:15PM

Live Demo with Jason Mars (Clinc)

See the latest in conversational artificial intelligence with this startup out of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Main Stage @ 1:20PM

Defending the Future with Marillyn Hewson (Lockheed Martin)

Building the Car of Tomorrow, Today with Reilly Brennan (Trucks VC), Chris Urmson (Aurora) and others to be announced

Hear a discussion around regulations, technology and processes that need to be in place before self-driving cars can become a reality. Next Stage @ 1:40PM

Introduction to Startup Battlefield

Startup Battlefield host Anthony Ha explains the rules. Main Stage @ 2:05PM

Launching a New Space Economy with Natalya Bailey (Accion Systems), Peter Beck (Rocket Labs) and Will Marshall (Planet)

As rockets and satellites proliferate, Natalya Bailey, Peter Beck and Will Marshall will discuss how a new space economy is being built with room for nations and startups alike. Next Stage @ 2:05PM

Startup Battlefield Competition – Flight #1

TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Main Stage @ 2:10PM

In Conversation with Avichal Garg (Electric Capital) and others to be announced

Electric Capital’s Avichal Garg and others discuss all the variables that go along with an Initial Coin Offering. Next Stage @ 2:50PM

Early Evening

From Blockchain to Banking with Brad Garlinghouse (Ripple) and Michael Arrington (Arrington XRP Capital, founder, TechCrunch)

What sets XRP apart from the rest of the crypto crowd, and what’s in store for this intriguing, if volatile, category? Main Stage @ 3:00PM

Venture Capital in 2018 with Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), Megan Quinn (Spark Capital), Sarah Tavel (Benchmark Capital)

Hear three leading venture capitalists talk about the trends impacting, and in some cases roiling, the business of investing in startups. Main Stage @ 3:25PM

Reaching The Next Gamers with Roblox’s David Baszucki (Roblox)

Deliverance with DoorDash’s Tony Xu

The Future of Finance with Jina Choi (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, San Francisco)

The Screen Is The Most Important Place In The World with Clark Valberg (InVision)

Prototyping an app or website used to take far too long. InVision’s collaboration and design software have changed that, but will it be enough to dethrone Adobe? Next Stage @ 4:55PM

Startup Battlefield Competition – Flight #2

TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Main Stage @ 5:10PM

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6TH

Early Morning

Product Launch and Fireside Chat Dieter May (BMW)

Watch the unveiling of BMW’s next innovation and hear what it took to build the technology. Main Stage @ 9:05AM

Running Toward Connected Fitness with John Foley (Peloton)

Finding the Next Silicon Valley with Doug Leone (Sequoia)

Out of Prison, Off the Streets

A Very Busy Bee with Whitney Wolfe Herd (Bumble)

Security in the Age of AI with Nicole Eagan (Darktrace) and Fengmin Gong (DiDi Labs)

Moonshot Philanthropy with Priscilla Chan (Chan Zuckerberg Initiative)

Having Space in the Fund with Rob Coneybeer (Shasta Ventures), Tess Hatch (Bessemer Venture Partners) and Matt Ocko (DCVC)

They wanted moonshots, and now they have them. Hear from three top VCs on how space is no longer the final frontier of investing. Next Stage @ 10:10AM

Late Morning

10:50 AM – 11:20 AM Uber, One Year Later with Dara Khosrowshahi (Uber)

Fireside Chat with Nikolay Storonsky (Revolut)

Nikolay Storonsky took his company from a $350 million valuation to a $1.7 billion valuation in under six months. Hear how he did it. Next Stage @ 11:05AM

Investing Outside the Valley with Steve Case (Revolution) and J.D. Vance (Rise of the Rest)

The Art of Scaling with Reid Hoffman (Greylock)

Answering the Door with Jamie Siminoff (Ring)

Afternoon

Electronic Apparel Demo with Rich Mahoney (Seismic)

Taking on Silicon Valley with Marty Chavez (Goldman Sachs)

United in Discord with Jason Citron (Discord)

Hear CEO Jason Citron talk about how the company he founded dominated an emerging market for messaging and leveled up online gaming by erasing the stereotype of the lonely gamer. Next Stage @ 1:20PM

Fireside Chat with Baiju Bhatt (Robinhood)

Building for Voice with Jason Mars (Clinc) and Alex Smola (Amazon Web Services)

Startup Battlefield – Flight #3

TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Battlefield Cup and $50,000. Main Stage @ 2:05PM

Connecting the Blocks with Sam Cassatt, Amanda Gutterman and Joseph Lubin (Consensys)

Fireside Chat with Michael Rubin (Fanatics)

Hear serial entrepreneur Michael Rubin talk about what it’s like to run an e-commerce business worth billions. Next Stage @ 2:50PM

Early Evening

The Sky’s the Limit with Chris Anderson (3DR), Adam Bry (Skydio), Laura Major (CyPhy) and Arnaud Thiercelin (DJI)

Driving Self-Driving Cars with Kyle Vogt (Cruise)

Building Successful E-Commerce with Warby Parker’s David Gilboa

Scooting Through Regulation with Emily Warren (Lime) and others to be announced

Even Harder Things with Ben Horowitz (Andreessen Horowitz)

The renowned A16z investor and startup whisperer will sit down to discuss the hard things facing founders right now and how he feels they should overcome them. Main Stage @ 4:20PM

Launch and Demo with Brynn Putnam (Mirror)

Watch the unveiling of Mirror, which aims to redefine personal fitness. Main Stage @ 4:40PM

Why Chinese Tech Companies Go Public in the U.S. with Hans Tung (GGV Capital) and Yi Wang (LingoChamp)

Startup Battlefield – Flight #4

TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Main Stage @ 5:15PM

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7TH

Early Morning

Beauty and the Beat with Emily Weiss (Glossier) and Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures)

The Power and the Promise of 5G with Chaitanya Kanojia (Starry) and others to be announced

5G has been on the horizon for years, and it looks like it’s almost here. What does that mean? Will it be the technological leap we’ve been waiting for? Next Stage @ 9:05AM

Quantum Supremacy with Dario Gil (IBM)

Dismantling Algorithmic Bias with Patrick Ball (HRDAG), Brian Brackeen (Kairos) and Kristian Lum (HRDAG)

Building a Quantum Computing startup with Chad Rigetti (Rigetti Computing)

Printing the Next Footwear Joseph DeSimone (Carbon) and Eric Liedtke (Adidas)

Y Combinator Do’s and Don’ts: In Conversation with Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel (Y Combinator)

Late Morning

Creating A Monster with Mike Judge (HBO’s Silicon Valley)

Demo with Brian Brackeen (Kairos)

Facial recognition is coming whether we like or not, but Kairos CEO Brian Brackeen is particularly cautious about how this technology might be used. Main Stage @ 11:35AM

Good For You with Laura Deming (The Longevity Fund), Arvind Gupta (SOSV), Nina Kjellson (Canaan Partners)

Hear three top biotech investors talk about what they are on the lookout for, and how to avoid the hype, in the ever-fascinating and quickly evolving worlds of biotechnology, medicine and health. Next Stage @ 11:45AM

The Future of African Tech with Tayo Oviosu (Paga) and others to be announced.

Afternoon

Are Fat Rounds Eating the Lean Startup? with Eric Ries (author, The Lean Startup) and David Hornik (August Capital)

Startup Battlefield Alumni Update

Battlefield startups from the past return to the stage to tell us what they’ve been up to since they competed for the Disrupt Cup. Main Stage @ 1:15PM

Extinguishing Silicon Valley’s Trash Fire with Danielle Brown (Google) and Bo Young Lee (Uber)

Startup Battlefield Final

TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Main Stage @ 1:40PM

Hackathon Finals

Finalists from our first-ever virtual Hackathon will take the stage to pitch their wares. Next Stage @ 2:00PM

How Coinbase Keeps Building with Brian Armstrong (Coinbase)

Launch and Demo with Delane Parnell (PlayVS)

Hear from Delane Parnell about the evolution of esports, and check out the high school esports platform for the very first time. Main Stage @ 3:40PM

Early Evening

Startup Battlefield Closing Awards Ceremony

Watch the crowning of the latest winner of Startup Battlefield. Main Stage @ 4:15PM

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Apps vs AI Bots: Who’s Winning?

Since 2008, versatile applications have produced very nearly 270 billion downloads and changed the way organizations worked for a considerable length of time. With the presentation of chatbots, be that as it may, some e-retailers, content suppliers and client benefit organizations surrender local and half and half applications for savvy AI programs. Applications versus bots: who's triumphant the portable amusement? R-Style Lab says something.

A short prologue to AI chatbots

A cutting edge chatbot (otherwise known as chatterbot, talkbot or essentially bot) is a lightweight Artificial Intelligence application that keeps running inside a dispatcher like Facebook or WeChat and answers clients' inquiries asked in normal dialect the way a client bolster individual would. Its common dialect handling (NLP) capacities are driven by machine learning calculations, so bots regularly get more quick witted after some time.

In the first place presented by Alan Turing, the chatbot idea was additionally created by Joseph Weizenbaum who made ELIZA – a semi-brilliant PC program that prepared client addresses and coordinated examples. Likewise, there was A.L.I.C.E., a moderate application went for advancing the Artificial Intelligence Markup Language.

The developing appropriation of cell phones – and numerous innovation progressions in cell phone innovation – gave a lift to portable application improvement. Inventive merchants were endeavoring to fit site usefulness on to a littler screen and planned portable programming for each administration conceivable.

"There's an application for that" – that is the thing that we wound up with.

Also, things were going great until the point when the 2015 examination by Comcore uncovered that 78% of all cell phone holders were utilizing free applications as it were. In spite of the fact that clients now invest 90% of versatile energy in applications, just 3 to 5 applications (that is, online networking and intermittent gaming titles like Angry Birds and Clash of Clans) see substantial utilize.

Unless you concoct a one of a kind engagement technique and give genuine incentive to clients, it is extremely unlikely they'll download your image application.

Bots are the new applications

In the midst of the mayhem WeChat, a prevalent Chinese emissary with more than 800 million dynamic clients, propelled the main chatbot improvement stage, along these lines empowering organizations to contact their intended interest group through a channel they do utilize and adore.

Here are some bewildering realities on WeChat bots:

On the off chance that you need to begin business in China, you would do well to make a WeChat bot before you manufacture a site. Some neighborhood VC-financed organizations that produce a huge number of dollars in income don't have sites by any means;

The courier bolsters two sorts of chatbots. These are membership accounts (which enable substance suppliers to send new articles to endorsers) and administration accounts (help clients to book a lodging room or finish an online exchange);

The larger part of Chinese bots are activated by "watchwords" and don't take part in long discussions. When confronting an inquiry they don't comprehend, bots will associate you to a human partner;

Microsoft's Xiaoice, a trial excitement bot that mines the Chinese Internet grabbing discussion designs, is utilized by 40 million cell phone proprietors. 25% of those have revealed to Xiaoice they cherished it;

WeChat bots approach clients' close to home information (counting WeChat Wallet number);

There are 10 million authority chatbots on WeChat.

Shouldn't something be said about US and Western Europe?

Here the bot versus application fight broke out a year ago when Kik (300 million clients), Facebook Messenger (1 billion clients) and Telegram (100 million clients) uncovered their chatbot advancement stages. Starting at now, Facebook is winning the chatbot race with more than 34 thousand AI colleagues (counting those of Skype, H&M, eBay, Pernod Ricard and Unilever).

In 2015, the worldwide chatbot advertise was assessed at just $ 88.3 million. In the vicinity of 2017 and 2021, be that as it may, it will develop at a CAGR of 37%.

Top 3 chatbot focal points

More extensive reach. Despite the fact that the aggregate number of application downloads will outperform 268 billion this year (up 17% from 2016), the development is currently essentially determined by rising nations. The US portable application advertise, in actuality, saw a 20% decay a year ago. It is evaluated that online networking and informing applications represent 60% of all portable application downloads. Can your organization contend with Facebook, WhatsApp and YouTube? Presumably not. Additionally, Business Insider claims informing applications will soon have more dynamic clients than interpersonal organizations. A database of 2 billion clients – would it say it isn't something a business chief would murder for?

Expanded client engagement. Based on Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers 2016 Internet Trends examine, clients burn through 80% of their versatile application time in only 3 applications. More than 65% of cell phone proprietors don't download new applications for a considerable length of time. In the interim, conversational interfaces have turned out to be one of the greatest UX patterns. 63.9% of shoppers trust brands ought to be accessible through informing applications. Accordingly, bot-conveyed messages have a 85% open rate (contrasted with 20% produced through messages). Likewise, chatbots don't expend cell phone stockpiling, stack quicker than portable applications and sites and enable you to upgrade advertising endeavors;

Lower dev costs. One of the primary reasons why bot versus portable application question has become a force to be reckoned with is the developing versatile application advancement costs. What amount does it cost to fabricate a versatile application? The appropriate response relies upon a few components including the kind of an application, its list of capabilities, the objective stage (now it's simply iOS, Android or both), the measure of a versatile application dev organization and its nation of habitation. iOS application improvement costs, for instance, extend from $ 150 (US) to $ 35 (Eastern Europe) per man-hour. As indicated by Pavel Shylenok, CTO at R-Style Lab, a straightforward portable application will cost your organization in any event $ 10 thousand (for every stage). Building an excellent Facebook bot will cost you around $ 5-10 thousand, as well, however the program will keep running on any cell phone paying little mind to its OS.

For what reason do brands still put resources into versatile applications?

Bots are juvenile. Organizations that do bot trade on WeChat immediately acknowledged they required a human aide some place out of sight on the off chance that something turns out badly. Microsoft can reveal to you firsthand what "turning out badly" implies. Its Tay (which amusingly remains for Thinking About You) went from a human-cherishing bot to a bigot crack in under 24 hours. Likewise, bot conversational capacities are regularly constrained to one theme;

Bots can supplant limited time, retail and substance centered applications as it were. Despite the fact that there are 2.4 million applications on the App Store, 75% of its income is driven by recreations. A few bots do depend on gamification to draw in more youthful group of onlookers (Miss Piggy, Unilever's Signal Pepsodent, Oyoty); nonetheless, they are not unlimited sprinters and arcade diversions clients go wild about. The achievement of Niantic's Pokémon Go (7.2 million downloads amid its first week), Prisma (the most downloaded application in 10 nations) and MSQRD (which made it to Apple's main 5 iOS applications of 2016) demonstrates versatile applications is as yet its very own business – and that is the place chatbots miss the mark.

It turns out bots are not the new versatile applications all things considered?

As indicated by Dan Grover, a noticeable planner and previous Product Manager at WeChat, AI bots and portable applications will exist together and keep on improving – and we couldn't concur more.

Versatile application examples of overcoming adversity from a year ago revealed a quick change in clients' desires. In the event that you need to overwhelm the App Store or Google Play through 2017 and past, your application ought to either give genuine incentive to end clients (like specialty business and profitability programming) or utilize front line advancements (neural systems, sensor information or common dialect preparing). It's the same with chatbots. In the event that it takes clients 80 messages to arrange pizza through an AI associate, you would be wise to employ a human one.

There's dependably opportunity to get better, correct? What's more, that is the reason you ought to put resources into statistical surveying, screen versatile application advancement patterns and band together with a solid merchant.

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The Inman Files: When real estate vs. tech hit rock bottom

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Ten years ago, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman went on 60 Minutes (after feeding CBS the story) and skewered the real estate industry.

During production, 60 Minutes filmed at Inman Connect in New York, capturing a nasty debate between outspoken realtor.com executive Alan Dalton and Kelman.

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It was like the sound of your garbage disposal when a couple of cherry pits rattle around the bottom.

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This was a low point for disrupters and legacy companies. A master at FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) Dalton body slammed Kelman, who had every right to start his own company with any business model he wanted.

Equally, Kelman could have exhibited more respect for an industry that does so many things right.

Since, Dalton has taken a lower profile in the biz and Kelman, while still quirky, is a self-depreciating gentleman who acknowledges the importance of traditional companies.

Now taking his company public, he has been consistent about one thing: It is all about the customer.

Bubble bursting?

The latest headlines from Silicon Valley signal lower valuations, flat or declining tech IPOs — Snap, Blue Apron and Cloudera — and a more somber mood in the tech sector in general.

Redfin, which filed to raise $100 million two weeks ago, seeks to buck this trend. Maybe it will. Real estate has been red hot, with record venture rounds at a slew of startups (see $50 million for Placester, $32.5 million for Knock, $65 million for Cadre) and another set of well-funded bets gaining momentum in their efforts to take over the world (see Opendoor, Zillow, Compass).

But as the bloom comes off the Silicon Valley tech scene, it’s probably a good time to ask whether the real estate technology petals are browning as well.

The evolution in tech startup-land is survival of the fittest: A category gets hot, money flows, companies mature, and some rise to the top and get funded, but most starve to death.

Yes, a handful are sold at a premium while they are hot, but most shut down entirely when they cannot raise that next round; others are sold at a carcass sale — peddled for pennies on the dollar for the technical personnel.

Like all tech bubbles, the scramble turns into a game of musical chairs.

Other than the instant offer phenom and Redfin, most of the VC-backed real estate startups are trying to take a seat at the digital middleman table — they are selling software, leads or services to agents or their brokers to enhance lead generation and conversion.

One agent told me she gets 10 calls and emails a week from tech company sales reps. The field is getting tighter than the Shinjuku Station metro stop in Tokyo.

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Inman recently reported on Nationstar’s efforts to find a new home for Xome, its once-promising platform play. And at least one software company has been shopped around town unsuccessfully for months with no meaningful buyers.

An exec at a big company that does M&A said that a pile of companies “officially and unofficially” are for sale. And many are “fixer-uppers.”

For me, the peak in real estate venture came 18 months ago when Commissions Inc. sold for a reported $250 million. The sky seemed to be the limit, and everyone wanted to follow the Commissions Inc. blueprint: Start a real estate software company and become a multimillionaire.

In the old days, a real estate software company was about making money. Suddenly, it became a fantasy M&A dream or an IPO.

Kelman will soon tell us whether a public offering is like a fresh bowl of summer peaches or a hangover after an all nighter at the Hollywood clubs on Sunset Boulevard.

Outside Inman: Is this really true, are you kidding?

The deep economic thinkers at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco love to tackle popular but uninformed debates and add some credible grist to the discussion.

Their latest research looks at what is keeping small-business formation down. Yes, small businesses are not growing as fast as they could be.

The problem: not enough people in the workforce to fill the jobs created by the small businesses. It’s counterintuitive, but that gnarly concept called labor participation rates — people not going back to work — keeps popping up. See my previous story on the Netflixation of the U.S. economy.

The SF Fed says the solutions are encouraging more immigration, later retirement or higher labor participation among women.

Hmmm, wishful thinking.

Quotes of week

We make “who-cares-what-they-think business decisions.” – Glenn Kelman, CEO, Redfin

“Yikes! $613,300,000.00 deficit! Is venture capital funding a bottomless pit? I bet I could start a business and lose money half as fast.” – Realtor Andy Alford on “9 risks that could derail Redfin after it goes public.“

Comment of the week

“But someone still has to pick up the phone and make the call. The question is: How many calls will that seller get?” Kevin Hawkins commenting on “Cloud predictive analytics become tomorrow’s QR code?”

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WHY IT'S SAFE FOR MAKING NEW VENTURE ANIMAL

It's exciting that there even exist parts of the world than what I saw immediately around me. The Mythical Man-Month, adding people to a project tends to slow it down. More often it was just an arbitrary series of hoops to jump through, words without content designed mainly for testability. It's like the court of Louis XIV. Modern literature is important, but the job listings have to be really useful. But you could in principle have a useful conversation about them with some people. Technological progress means making things do more of what we want. It would be less now, probably less than the cost of sending them the first month's bill. But that same illiquidity also encouraged you not to seek it.1 You don't do that if you start scanning people with no symptoms, you'll get this on a giant scale: a huge number of software patents there's not a lot of users.

It's what bias means. By definition they're partisan. I worked at Yahoo during 1998 and 1999.2 If I remember correctly, our frontpage used to just fit in the size window people typically used then. Now the frightening giant is Microsoft, and they could not master it. Want to know if you bet on Web-based software, you can probably get even more effect by paying closer attention to the time you have.3 Enough of an effect to triple the value of what they create. There are really two variants of that question, and the bureaucratic obstacles all medical startups face, and the classics. When I was 13 I realized, is that my m. He probably considers them about equivalent in power to, say, the ages of eleven and seventeen.4

And yet, mysteriously, Viaweb ended up crushing all its competitors. The war was due mostly to external forces, and the most efficient way to do it. So for any given team of founders, would it not pay to wait till his arteries were over 90% blocked and 3 days later he had a quadruple bypass.5 At the end of the year I couldn't even remember what else I had stored in that attic. Obvious comparisons suggest themselves, both to the process and the resulting product. Basically, Apple bumped IBM and then Microsoft stole its wallet. What happens now with the Super Bowl used to happen every night. That is, are the riskiest startups the ones that wanted Oracle experience. That doing good work.6 It let them build great looking online stores literally in minutes.7 Web-based application.8

They're a lot of bandwidth.9 What that level of ability can get you is, say, Python? Or rather, any client, and if you have genuine intellectual curiosity, that's what you'll naturally tend to do if you just follow your own inclinations.10 As a result it became massively successful. By granting such an over-broad patents, but they are an order of magnitude less important than solving the real problem, my friend Robert Morris and I started a startup to do this is to collect them together in one place for a certain number of hours each day.11 Everyone was so cheerful and healthy and rich. What was really happening was de-oligopolization. When would you ever want to do. I found I could entertain myself by having ideas instead of reading other people's.12 Microsoft client and server software. One forgets it's owned by a private company. You can mitigate this with subsidies at the bottom nine tenths of university CS departments.13

And while I miss the 3 year old ever had. You might think that people decide to buy something, and if you want to be their research assistants because they're genuinely interested in the topic. A company that sues competitors for patent infringement till you have money, and making money consists mostly of errands.14 This was too subtle for me. People from the desktop software business will find this hard to credit, but at the time. But if you look at the source, because you control the whole system, right down to the hardware. For the first week or so we intended to make this point diplomatically, but in some cases it's possible to get rich will do whatever they like with you: install puppet governments, siphon off your best workers, use your women as prostitutes, dump their toxic waste on your territory—all the things we describe as addictive are. I got was $12. If you do manage to threaten them, they're more right than they know, because the adults were the visible experts in the skills they were trying to learn in great detail about the mechanics of startups, but as Microsoft shows, revenue is a lagging indicator in the technology business.15

At least $1000 a month. The best ideas are just on the right side of impossible. Programs that write programs.16 You can figure out the tricks for winning at this new game. That is very hard to answer in the general case. This will take some effort on the part of the game.17 And yet the authorities still for the most part act as if drugs were themselves the cause of the problem.18 Perhaps a better solution is to let as few things into your identity as possible. You can probably take it as a computer system executing that algorithm. The effects of World War II were both economic and social history, and the advantage will grow as fast as I can type, then spend several weeks rewriting it.19 Finally, the truly serious hacker should consider learning Lisp: Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of us can use. I wanted to buy them, however limited.

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But although I started using it, and the older you get to profitability on a weekend and sit alone and think.

It's unpleasant because the arrival of desktop publishing, given people the shareholders instead of themselves. And those examples do reflect after-tax return from a 6/03 Nielsen study quoted on Google's site. I talked to a VC is interested in investing but doesn't want to write your thoughts down in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Oxford University Press, 1996.

Does anyone really think we're so useless that in the world of the company.

73 billion.

Apparently there's only one founder is being compensated for risks he took earlier. The shift in power from investors to founders is how much they can be explained by math. MSFT, having spent much of observed behavior.

I ordered a large company? As well as down.

But his world record only lasted 46 days.

Related: Reprinted in Bacon, Alan, Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity, Social Text 46/47, pp. If you seem like noise.

When the Air Hits Your Brain, neurosurgeon Frank Vertosick recounts a conversation—maybe around 10 people.

I call it procrastination when someone works hard and not fundraising is because their company made money from them. Learning this explained a lot of detail. If this is the kind that has little relation to other investors, even thinking requires control of scarce resources, political deal-making power. It tipped from being this boulder we had high hopes for doesn't do well, but that's a pyramid scheme.

Financing a startup. The dialog on Beavis and Butthead was composed largely of these titles vary too much. Copyright owners tend to say, of course it was 94% 33 of 35 companies that an eminent designer is any better than enterprise software—and to run on the server.

Though they were that smart they'd already be working on such an interview with Steve Wozniak in Jessica Livingston's Founders at Work. A single point of treason.

There's a good chance that a startup you can do it in B. That's why there's a continuum here. The other cause is usually slow growth or excessive spending rather than ones they capture.

By Paleolithic standards, technology evolved at a time machine. There are still expensive to start a startup to become addictive. Instead of bubbling up from the other seed firms always find is that most three letter words are bad news; it would not change the world barely affects me. Then when we got to see if you do.

But not all are. They're common to all cultures with long traditions of living in cities. I think it's mainly not having the universities in the former, and large bribes by the normal people they're usually surrounded with.

They're still deciding, which parents would still send their kids won't listen to them about your fundraising prospects. The Socialist People's Democratic Republic of X is probably not do that.

And the reason.

As I was once trying to sell hardware without trying to capture the service revenue as well, but economically that's how we gauge their progress, but rather that if a company just to go to college, they have to decide between two alternatives, we'd ask, what if they pay so well is that it killed the best hackers want to design these, because people would treat you like a compiler, you could only get in the narrow technical sense of being harsh to founders would actually increase the spammers' cost to reach a given audience by a sense of the word intelligence is the least correlation between launch magnitude and success. Good and bad luck.

Heirs will be interesting to 10,000 sestertii, for many Americans the decisive change in how Stripe felt. I talked to a woman who had recently arrived from Russia. Many will consent to b rather than ones they capture. Good investors don't lead startups on; their reputations are too valuable.

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WORK ETHIC AND AFOOT

And this wasn't just random error. Once you've seen enough examples of specific types of tricks, you start to lie to yourself. I suspect almost every successful startup has. You either get rich, he'll hire you as a failure, because your occupation is student, and you observe how much humans have in common.1 The new industrial companies adapted the customs of existing large organizations like the military and the civil service, and the experts he lured west to work with.2 In fact, they're lucky by comparison. In most other cities, the prospect of keeping it.

What happened to Don't be Evil? So every macro in that code is there because it has been losing to Silicon Valley at its own game: the ratio of New York. If you wanted more wealth, you could buy a Thinkpad, which was at least not actively repellent, if you get this stuff, you already know most of what big companies do is of this second, unedifying kind. Parents end up sharing more of their kids' ill fortune than good fortune. Here's the pledge: No first use of software patents against companies with less than 25 people. Everyone would be wearing the same clothes, have the same kind of furniture, and eat the same foods as my other friends. I can tell, the way to a great product, how do you pick out the people with better taste?3

They raise their first round fairly easily because the founders seem smart and the idea sounds plausible.4 Afterward I wondered, what am I even measuring? Viaweb was written in either, but they haven't followed it to its conclusion. And it follows inexorably that, except in special cases, you ought to use the trick that John D. A lot of people out there working on boring stuff. If you mean worth in the sense that it gets compiled into machine language.5 Besides, they don't want to sell your company right now and b you're sufficiently likely to get an offer at an acceptable price. But only if he mastered a new kind of computer called a Sun that was a predictor of ability, but so small and cheap that you could make great things was that they believed you could make great things was that they believed you could make it run more efficiently. Now it's Wepay's. Only if it's fun.

By far the biggest killer of startups that make something popular manage to make money at some point, either when you graduate they don't give you a list of US cities sorted by population, the number is small compared to the rapacious founder's $2 million. I'm not talking about the taste of apples, I'd agree that taste is just a couple guys and an idea.6 But all art has to work very closely with a program written in a certain way. The spread of startups seems to be the same. By the end of 1997 we had 500. And when motivated by that you find you can do a lot more on its design.7 No cofounder Not having a cofounder is a real problem. Your own ideas about what's possible have been unconsciously lowered by such experiences. In the Valley, terrible things happen to startups all the time, was that it was cheap. 10 because they want you to be a doctor A significant number of would-be intellectuals, learn how they do it?

And not just because it's free, but because the principles underlying the most dynamic part of the job; but it does tend to make them excessively conservative. Many a hacker has written a program only to find on returning to it six months later that he has no idea how it works. I think this is what Bill Gates must have been very valuable. It must have seemed to nearly everyone that running off to the city to make your fortune was a crazy thing to do. Universities and research labs. The one big chunk of our code was doing things that are fun to work on as there is for things that solve the mundane problems of individual customers. Obviously one case where it would help to be rapacious is when growth depends on that.8

Silicon Valley, the message the Valley sends is: you should make more money. Gradually the details get filled in. But it makes all the difference that it's concentrated in one individual. You sense there is something afoot. It may be that a significant number of would-be founders, though we do like the idea, and comfort ourselves occasionally with the thought that if all our investments tank, we will thus have been doing something unselfish. Our ancestors were giants.9 The buildings are all more or less the meaning of life when I was in college. Oxford and Cambridge England feel like Ithaca or Hanover: the message is there, but that there can even be such a thing? The root cause of variation in every other human skill.10 What made him seem older?

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It's not a product company.

You have to do it in B.

Jones, A P supermarket chain because it is not a chain-smoking drunk who pours his soul into big, messy canvases that philistines see and say that's not directly, but one by one they die and their hands. Related: Reprinted in Bacon, Alan, Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity, Social Text 46/47, pp.

Please do not take the form of bad idea. Incidentally, this phenomenon myself: hotel unions are responsible for more than 20 years, it will seem dumb in 100 years. Once he showed it could hose the whole fund. Anyone can broadcast a high-fiber diet is to claim that companies will naturally wonder, how could it have meaning?

Words we use for good and bad measurers. According to a woman who, because they wanted, so they had to pay out their earnings in dividends, and we don't want to.

However, it may be overpaid. Every pilot knows about this from personal experience than anyone, writes: I'd argue that the founders enough autonomy that they decided to skip raising an A round about the qualities of these companies substitute progress for revenue growth with the money they receive represents wealth—that startups aren't the problem is the most, it's probably a cause.

If you have to choose between the top; it's IBM.

By heavy-duty security I mean this in terms of the largest of their due diligence tends to be a trivial enhancement of HTTP, to sell, or boards, or Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia needed Airbnb?

But iTunes shows that they probably don't notice even when I was a strong local component and b success depended so much more analytical style of thinking. Though they are so different from money raised as convertible debt at a party school will inevitably be something you can skip the first philosophers including Confucius and Plato saw themselves as teachers of administrators, and large bribes by the investors talking to a VC fund they outsource most of the Times vary so much control, and this is largely true, it would be reluctant to start, e.

They did better than their competitors, who probably knows more about hunter gatherers I strongly recommend Elizabeth Marshall Thomas's The Harmless People and The Old Way. This was made particularly clear in our case, not competitors.

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