Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading 30th/31st Aug 2025
Moore's Law for Everything by Sam Altman
“AI will lower the cost of goods and services, because labor is the driving cost at many levels of the supply chain. If robots can build a house on land, you already own from natural resources mined and refined onsite, using solar power, the cost of building that house is close to the cost to rent the robots. And if those robots are made by other robots, the cost to rent them will be much less than it was when humans made them ...”
How Klarna’s boardroom spat exposed a schism at Sequoia Capital by George Hammond & Ivan Levingston
“The continued presence of the old leadership [on start-up boards] communicates to the outside world that they are not confident in the new leadership,” said a Sequoia “limited partner”, a term for one of the financial institutions that has invested in its venture funds. “The magnitude of the egos in the VC world indicate that might be the case here ...”
Hindenburg Research shorts Jack Dorsey’s payments group Block by Joshua Franklin, Ortenca Aliaj & Oliver Ralph
“New York-based Hindenburg first came to prominence in 2020 when it claimed truck start-up Nikola’s business was a fraud. Earlier this year, it accused Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, at the time the third-richest person in the world, of “pulling the largest con in corporate history”. The report helped wipe about $100bn off his empire’s market value. Adani has denied the allegations …”
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