Mad or Bad?
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What Are They Thinking?
By Keith Teare • Issue #323
$350m for the man who lost most of $20 billion. The world has not gone mad. Read why Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) did it. Plus @ReidHoffman on AI, Josh Nicholson on Science and AI, @BrianSolis on Web3 marketing@Alexoppenheimer on valuing companies, and much more
Contents
Mad or Bad, What are they Thinking?
- A16z is betting big on Adam Neumann’s new real estate startup — Protocol @RyanDDeff
- The Rise of The Cash Man — @KWHarrison13
- Investing in Flow — @Pmarca
- The Revenue Multiple — @Alexoppenheimer
- When Low Valuations are Good — @Squire
- Why Web 3.0 will rewrite the concept of marketing — @Briansolis
- How to Build a GPT-3 for Science — Josh Nicholson
- Uniquity: DALL-E, NFTs, and the emergence of limited-edition abundance — @reidhoffman
- China’s Growing Trade Dominance in Latin America @visualcapitalist
- How I Built and Sold a Newsletter for 5 Figures — Jason Kelley
- Now piloting: Substack Threads — Substack
- Threads questions answered
- U.S. Streaming Tops Cable TV Viewing for First Time
- Apple tells staff to come into the office for at least three days a week — Variety
- Global private equity, venture capital deal value falls 63% in July
- Public Stock Held by Sequoia Capital, Andreessen and Bessemer Fell 44% in Second Quarter — The Information
- Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory made its millionth car
- Optic — NFT Validation
- Stride Ventures
- Ethereum (ENS) names
Editorial
There was much surprise this week when Marc Andreessen announced his firm’s $350m investment into Flow, Adam Neumann’s newest venture. The…