Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 17th/18th December 2022
Elon Musk’s Brutally Honest Management Style by Helen Lewis
“All politicians lie, but at least I’m honest about it. All billionaires are selfish egomaniacs; at least I’m not hiding it behind charity galas and Davos panels on philanthropy...”
Adam Driver, the Original Man by Michael Schulman
“Later, as Driver was collecting himself at the barracks, he thought about the two things that he really wanted to do in life, and he vowed to do them. One was to smoke cigarettes. The other was to be…”
Are down rounds the path to startup survival? by Dragos Novac
“Now that the markets have turned and investors changed narratives, the really hard question for founders is not whether they should take down rounds or not, but to reset the above-mentioned unhealthy growth paradigm and finally get to building a profitable mechanism, which they should have done in the first place. It’s survival of the fittest and during the hey-day market nobody told them what’s that like, because nobody cared…”
23 Year Old Evan Spiegel's Leaked Email by Will Robbins
“The VC and startup world has been overrun with content marketing — very very few publicly available pieces reflect how business is actually done. This email snagged in the Sony email hack is an excellent example of the mindset and form through which companies are built.…”