Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 9th/10th March 2024
Dara Khosrowshahi: the ‘adult in the room’ who steered Uber to profit by Camilla Hodgson
“Khosrowshahi grew up in a wealthy household in Iran before his family fled to France ahead of the country’s 1979 revolution and then moved to the US. After studying bioelectric engineering at Brown University in Rhode Island, he took a job as an analyst at Wall Street firm Allen & Company...”
Britain is an entrepreneurial nation by Derin Kocer
“There is room for progress. Young people rank access to funding as the top challenge to becoming an entrepreneur. Educational and cultural campaigns – like David Cameron’s StartUp Britain a decade ago – can help by emphasising the real costs of starting a business...”
AI’s $200B Question by David Cahn
“Before Nvidia’s announcement, consumer launches like ChatGPT, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion had raised AI into the public consciousness. With Nvidia’s results, founders and investors were delivered empirical evidence that AI can generate billions of dollars of net new revenue. This has shifted the category into its highest gear yet.…”
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