Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 10th/11th February 2024
The Network Effects Bible Updated 2024 by NFX
“The problem is assuming it’s the only, or even the best, form of learning. Or more dangerously: people who have only experienced active learning that isn’t right for their personality may become convinced that they hate learning, hate reading, hate being curious about the world … and then it spirals down from there ...”
Meet the Sequoia scouts currently looking to invest in European startups by Daphné Leprince-Ringuet
“The programme which has been running for over a decade in the US, is an individual investor network in which ‘scouts’ — mostly founders and executives at high-profile companies — are given capital by the VC to invest in early-stage companies. It has led Sequoia to some portfolio champions too; most notably, Stripe ...”
The Fidelity “dead accounts” study is fake, not wrong by Indy finance
“After months of crunching the data, the bean counters made a shocking discovery: there was one account type that consistently outperformed all the others. The accounts of dead people! It turned out that people who did no trading in their accounts whatsoever had higher long-term returns than any other strategy …”
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