What I read this week (week of 09/19)
What I read this week
Amazon's surprising low-key ads business and its core contributor
The story of the low-key leader Paul Kotas who is the man behind Amazon's $15 billion ad business – right after Google and Meta.
The typical growth flow is acquisition - activation - recurring, this article highlights some of the metrics used in these different stage.
What I missed about working at early days at Stripe
A unique stage of the one of the most valuable startups.
The wisdom list – Sam Bankman-fried
FTX’s CEO shares his thoughts on management, staying focused, keeping up with the competition, scaling himself, hiring mistakes, and building a generational business.
Tiny thoughts
Thinking in decades avoids a lot of bad behavior.
If you think about relationships lasting decades, you'll often handle the current moment differently. This works for co-workers, partners, suppliers, customers, friends, etc.
Think twice before you interrupt time.
What I watched this week
Global Instability and Software’s Opportunity Model
Palantir CEO Alex Karp speaks to one of their earliest investors, Stanley Druckenmiller, about the changing geopolitical and economic climate.
What I listened this week
Acquired show classic episode reply: Sequoia capital
A 2019 episode, which has two parts – telling the story of Sequoia Capital which is one of the most significant firms of the modern alternative assets: venture capital.
