Balaji S. Srinivasan
CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, Coin Center. I hear this Bitcoin thing might be kind of a big deal. Contact: earn.com/balajis
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Considering App vs. Website? It’s 2019: Build a Website.
When I was a Stanford undergraduate in 2012, everyone seemed to be building apps. The sexiest tech startups—Snap, Uber, Facebook—were…
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
This is a great article from earlier this year by @JuliaEnthoven making many similar points
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Seattle shows San Francisco and New York how to fix the housing crisis
If you build it, prices will moderate.
Meet Morgan Beller, the 26-year-old woman behind Facebook's plan to make its own currency
Facebook Vice President David Marcus is the face of the company's Libra digital currency, but the original driving force was a 26-year-old female engineer named Morgan Beller.
Zero Knowledge Proofs & Ethereum
Zero Knowledge Proofs & Ethereum Elena Nadolinski @leanthebean [email protected]
Currents Research on DigitalOcean
A quarterly report on developer trends in the cloud.
This deep neural network fights deepfakes: Artificial intelligence to accurately detect altered photos is getting smarter
Researchers have developed a deep neural network architecture that can identify manipulated images at the pixel level with high precision by studying the boundaries of objects in the image.
Measuring the perception of latency with a haptic glove
One of our research projects at Facebook Reality Labs is a haptic glove. Michael Abrash unveiled it with a brief video at Oculus Connect 5. In the early versions of this demo, there was a problem: lag. There was obvious lag on the audio and haptic...
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
@dakami Well, not always. Some genes are master regulators, others provide critical pieces of metabolism. A single gene can sometimes be a very big deal. One example
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Essential gene - Wikipedia
Balaji S. Srinivasan
In biology too, there are many genes of unknown function. If you start knocking them out systematically, you find that some of them were essential for life — even if no one yet knows what they do.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_knoc…
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Gene knockout - Wikipedia
Balaji S. Srinivasan
In biology too, there are many genes of unknown function. If you start knocking them out systematically, you find that some of them were essential for life — even if no one yet knows what they do.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_knoc…
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These 11 stunning luxury RVs are nicer than most full-sized homes
Take a look at some of the most expensive and luxurious RVs that are nicer than most full-sized homes.
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
Have been thinking about rebranding trailer parks as mobile-first living. New RVs are impressive and significantly cheaper than SF houses.
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The new boogeyman in Silicon Valley politics? The IPO.
A local measure in San Francisco is a case study for how the fabled IPO — like the tech industry it celebrates — has become the new piñata.
Billionaires Shouldn’t Live Forever
Evergarchs should grow old like the rest of us.
Sales Navigator - Wherever You Need It
LinkedIn Sales Navigator provides the necessary insights to target, understand, and engage buyers with personalized outreach
Balaji S. Srinivasan
@scottbelsky @eriktorenberg Interesting. Rapportive (now LinkedIn Sales Navigator) was arguably a v1 of this: business.linkedin.com/sales-solution…
@rahulvohra
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UI Design Resources, UI Kits, Wireframes, Icons and More
100% curated digital marketplace with a growing library of high quality UX/UI design resources and freebies for designers.
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
Discord Nitro Server Boosting is pretty interesting. You can’t just upgrade a server yourself. Your community must upgrade it for you. And you need enough unique fans to do that.
Counterintuitive! But seems like a new form of collective incentivization.
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Ev Williams’ Formula For Creating Billion-Dollar Companies
How do you make a massively successful Internet company? Remove a few steps, says the cofounder of Blogger, Twitter, and Medium.
Balaji S. Srinivasan
Evan Williams made a similar point several years ago.
fastcompany.com/3019327/ev-wil… pic.twitter.com/iSyCQv0AXN
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
I’m bullish mainly because of crypto.
Outside of that, we moved very quickly from banning straws & scooters to advocating the breakup or destruction* of the most valuable cos in the US.
These things are never surgical. Startups will also suffer.
* Eg
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