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My New Thing: Jelly 21 May 2013 | 08:54 pm
I'm now Co-founder and CEO of Jelly Industries, Inc. A small startup based in San Francisco, California. We've not yet announced what our product will be but if you're interested in following along, f...
Behold, The Financial Superentity 2 Oct 2011 | 10:11 am
Economic literature often depicts markets as so dynamic that they are absent hot spots of control. Nevertheless, people have always suspected that a disproportionate amount of the world's economy is c...
The Power of Joining Forces 26 Sep 2011 | 04:52 pm
Scientists who specialize in abiogenesis study how life arises from inorganic matter. These folks who study the origin of life will tell you that the "building blocks of life" are amino acids. What's ...
Cultural Neuroscience and Startups 6 Sep 2011 | 10:34 am
Henry David Thoreau said, "As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To ma...
On Rats, Sleep, and Startups 15 Aug 2011 | 04:22 am
Art by Matty M. Cipov (purchased on Etsy) The archetypal startup mentality is working grueling hours deep into the night and through the weekend to achieve extraordinary goals. However, there is some...
Honeybees and Investors 14 Aug 2011 | 09:58 am
Between Jason Goldman's macroeconomic neuroses by day, and Livia's naturalist fascinations pervading our dinnertime conversation, my mind becomes jumbled with combinations. It's surprising how many si...
It's So Obvious 29 Jun 2011 | 06:43 am
Believe it or not, Jason is the smartest of the trio. My career in developing large scale systems that allow people to express themselves and communicate started in 1999 with Xanga. I left after a co...
The Trouble Bubble 15 Apr 2011 | 05:43 pm
We founded Twitter, Inc. in March of 2007 and while we have long said it's about the users, not the service, we have nevertheless enjoyed favorable media coverage. What took so long for somebody to wr...
BIZ AND AOL 15 Mar 2011 | 04:49 am
Startups are in a unique position to weave the idea of doing good into the very fabric of their culture. From the beginning days of Twitter, we aligned ourselves with giving back by associating with o...
There Is Compound Interest in Altruism 24 Sep 2010 | 01:45 pm
Startups have a unique opportunity to build the concept of "giving back" into the company culture from the very beginning. This is core to Twitter and other startups I'm involved with such as Trazzler...