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Experimentation has always been a crucial part of startup growth strategy. You need to design a series of experiments, place small bets, and see what sticks. Then you cut the losing experiments and double down on the winning ones. AI now allows you to run more experiments faster than ever before.

The Experimentation Machine

Jeffrey Bussgang

When you combine the data with Reed’s advice, this is the takeaway: a leader who has demonstrated competence and is liked by her team will build trust and prompt risk-taking when she widely sunshines her own mistakes. Her company benefits. The one exception is for a leader considered unproven or untrusted. In these cases you’ll want to build trust in your competency before shouting your mistakes.

No Rules Rules

Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer

We are accustomed to thinking of the left as having an internationalist perspective. Liberals are the sort of people who worry about poverty in Africa or the education of girls in India. The irony today is that the real internationalists are no longer the bleeding-heart liberals; they are the cutthroat titans of capital.

Plutocrats

Chrystia Freeland

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