François Dorléans

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Credentials are signaling mechanisms that help people who can’t spot talent a priori

At best these create communities where there are lower transaction costs between members, which enables creation

So we can’t get rid of credentials. We need to find ones that are more fair.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

All the best investors I know are more like founders than investors: Fred Wilson, Mike Moritz, Pmarca, Ben Horowitz, Keith Rabois. What do I mean by like founders? Informal, pragmatic, genuinely interested in products and not just in money.

[François Dorléans @FDorleans]

Jeff Bezos & founding team, c. 1995:
- I am going to build the largest e-commerce / marketplace website and also a leading cloud storage provider eventually (cause we need to build the infra from the ground up)

Bad VC:
- Do you have technical abilities in « cloud » storage ?

[Rory Stirling @rorystirling]

Can evolutionary thinking be applied in business?

When something fails in business we conclude that it doesn’t work.

But this misses the circumstances in which it failed.

In contrast, evolution is blind to circumstance. It just keeps trying things until they stick.

[steve jang @stevejang]

A great succinct post by @fredwilson about what matters when investing in a startup: “a large market, a great product, and a talented founding team”. 👌🏽

And I’d suggest one more variable: the right timing.

https://t.co/u7BejiKK6R

[François Dorléans @FDorleans]

"Thinking about how to stay relevant as a fintech company, the only defensible, long-term strategy is driven by automation."
https://t.co/3mJqw7AnO4

[François Dorléans @FDorleans]

Blockchain : « En 2019, il y aura des morts, c'est une purge nécessaire » https://t.co/uqNYZLQflF

[François Dorléans @FDorleans]

Repérer et intégrer différents profils dans votre équipe, du "Pionnier" au "Gardien", chacun apporte sa force https://t.co/Rd1jvTlwVi

[Suhail @Suhail]

9/ When times are dire, the worst thing you can do during this moment is to be overly patient for numbers to rebound. Freak out, don’t zen it out: https://t.co/2roqqzsDjS

[François Dorléans @FDorleans]

Proud co-founder @OpiumPhilo 😎 https://t.co/l4QCXyFMlf

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Whole Book in PRogress
https://t.co/VwZ0sVRp9C

[François Dorléans @FDorleans]

The Web 3 Stack is coming https://t.co/Rlcrqo3RyT #blockchain

[François Dorléans @FDorleans]

To be added to the long list of authors in Philosophy of Technology, Stewart Butterfield : https://t.co/ADCeDWzFuM

[François Dorléans @FDorleans]

@StratumnHQ as part of #NasdaqVentures https://t.co/8tHvoKcIVf

[Nasdaq @Nasdaq]

Excited to welcome @StratumnHQ as part of #NasdaqVentures! #fintech #blockchain
https://t.co/FwPc2m12lr

[By.FW.MEDIA @frenchweb]

Stratumn : le Plug & Play de la #blockchain lève 7 millions d’euros #Tech https://t.co/FFZjoZFRsK

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

While Trump's"enemies take him literally not seriously & friends seriously not literally", the wise looks at his acts & acts only. No words.

[François Dorléans @FDorleans]

SETL : A City veteran thinks this technology could 'do for finance what containers did for shipping' https://t.co/39RqVNCLmy

[François Dorléans @FDorleans]

"You don’t have to be right that often, as long as you are right about something big." https://t.co/KcoFyl5t2R

[Richard Caetano @arsydotorg]

Proving the integrity of internal ops is complex but @StratumnHQ’s Proof of Process Tech is designed to help :

https://t.co/9puXquzGKi

[François Dorléans @FDorleans]

Financial services can adapt quickly - the Remaking of Wall Street, 1967 to 1971, following the paperwork crisis https://t.co/3TptqJhCn2