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Experience
Andy Weissman – Aug 13, 2014
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung - Paul Westerberg I was in a board meeting the other day at a company we have been investors in [...] Read more
Figure 1
Andy Weissman – Aug 6, 2014
Social applications leverage the network structure of the Internet to connect people, places, and media. Over the last decade, we’ve seen the origination and maturation of these services, from Facebook to Twitter to Reddit to Tumblr to many more. At [...] Read more
Sometimes wrong
Andy Weissman – Jul 15, 2014
"I ain't often right, but I've never been wrong" About seven years ago I came across an online music service that, instead of charging fixed fees for the digital files (there was no streaming back then), instead used a formula [...] Read more
Amino
Andy Weissman – Jul 8, 2014
Communities have long been an integral part of the Internet, online places where people can connect and share their passions and interests. And communities can have great network dynamics, where they increase in value as participants join and share more. [...] Read more
Ego
Andy Weissman – Mar 28, 2014
Ain't lost yet, so I gotta be a winner - Paul Westerberg A number of years ago we were fundraising for betaworks. I can't remember if this was the first or second financing, 2007 or 2008, but we'd been out [...] Read more
Amazon Web Services as Metaphor
Andy Weissman – Feb 10, 2014
Amazon Web Services are defined as "a set of services that together form a reliable, scalable, and inexpensive computing platform in the cloud.” This definition belies just how profound those sets of services actually are. I remember back in 2008 [...] Read more
“Who are you? Where are you? How are you?”
Andy Weissman – Jan 27, 2014
Over the holiday, I was visiting my mother on the upper east side of Manhattan. To get to her place from the subway I needed to cross 86th Street at 3rd Avenue. I've been crossing that street since I was [...] Read more
Ain’t Done
Andy Weissman – Jan 8, 2014
My house ain't done, but it's alright, floors ain't level, but I ain't some suburbanite. Who cares about bathroom tiles, straight lines and building codes and Chinese wind chimes. My house ain't done, but it's fine, come out here from [...] Read more
Small Pieces, Khan, Quizlet
Andy Weissman – Nov 19, 2013
One way to build something big is to build something big. Like a pyramid. Or a multifaceted bank. Or a university. Another way is to build something that is architected to be full of small pieces, small things, small units. Khan Academy is one [...] Read more