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Thompson’s argument in that post is that Silicon Valley *used to be* an iterated game among repeat players: Venture capitalists had long careers and made many investments and would benefit way more from building a good reputation and helping the overall startup ecosystem than they would by maximizing their winnings on any one deal. But, he argues, as startup exits and venture funds have gotten bigger, “success became less about a series of victories and more about going big or going home,” and that cooperative ethos has weakened.
Money Stuff: Big Banks Trust First Republic With Their Money
Matt Levine
It’s often useful to monitor timings for each of those, as the execution of the query is not always where problems will arise.
Production Ready GraphQL
Marc-Andre Giroux
In late nineteenth-century Boston, this public health argument— that their own families would be safer and healthier because fewer people around them would be sick-was what convinced the wealthier residents to use their taxes to pay for a municipal water system and, new for the time, a sewage system to take the polluted wastewater away.
How Infrastructure Works
Deb Chachra
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