Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 07th/08th September 2024
Y Combinator’s Gen Z founders are coming back and learning to love San Francisco by Priya Anand
“Chowdhury’s experience mirrors a growing belief among a new breed of Gen Z founders that San Francisco is waging a comeback after three years of being vilified. In the tech industry, at least, much of the credit for the renaissance can be given to those who never left; chief among them, Garry Tan and Y Combinator ...”
What Will Happen In 2023 by Fred Wilson
“Startups are going to have a tough year in 2023. While many have gotten their burn rates way down, most startups still are losing money and will eventually need to raise capital in 2023. Because most startups avoided raising in 2022, there will be a glut of startup companies in the market for capital this year and while there is plenty of venture capital sitting on the sidelines waiting to be deployed, VCs will be much more selective, instead of funding everything that moves as we’ve done over the last few years …”
A bonfire of the decencies’: Peter Hennessy on Boris Johnson’s government by Henry Mance
“But Boris Johnson doesn’t accept the limits. He has overridden the advice of his ethics adviser and the House of Lords appointments commission; he has refused to resign despite allegations of misleading parliament. “If the prime minister is the number one wrong ’un, you’re in deep, deep trouble. It’s shown us the fragility of our constitution,” says Hennessy, whose former students include Simon Case, now head of the civil service ...”