The Power Law
by Sebastian Mallaby · first published 2022
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on “Ask HN: What books helped you in your entrepreneurship journey?” ↗…failed to find whales, and some outright sank or disappeared, but some came home full of whale oil. He found the parallels in the data striking. It is a great book and a good companion to Mallaby's Power Law. Fun fact: his source for whaling data was a book by Alexander Starbuck. 1. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/42449471
on “A Whale-Oiled Machine” ↗…the Traitorous Eight left Shockley to found Fairchild Semiconductor. This was essentially the origin story of Silicon Valley. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight https://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Law-Venture-Capital-Disruptio...
on “Ask HN: What are examples of companies dying due to many people quitting?” ↗This phrase comes to mind: "There's infinite demand when you sell dimes for nickels." IIRC, someone said it about Uber (maybe WeWork?) in Sebastian Mallaby's book The Power Law.
on “FTX closes in on a deal to buy embattled crypto lender BlockFi for $25M” ↗