It's good the timing with WC top of mind for casual fans, but didn't we just do this (different mechanics/stakeholders, same ethos) with the push for/against superleague??
The entire FIFA / World Cup investment situation happened because third party US based investors know nothing about football and its role in the world.
It’s a big faux pas.
The fact that they thought they might be able to get away with this or even considered this are in itself a testament to their ignorance and lack of ground awareness.
My views of the folks involved with this situation have completely shifted for the worse.
Never Compete. I was on with someone from our team at slow talking about competition recently… ‘how do you compete in venture capital’, etc… win deals. My honest philosophy?
I hate competition professionally (love it in sport, but not business)…. And I think competition is especially stupid in early stage venture capital, where you are competing over / crawling over each other for out of the money call options on things that almost certainly will not work.
Early stage VC competition on deals almost by definition leads to over-pricing / overpaying … and it also demonstrates a fundamental lack of creativity. Egotistically, if you want your money to matter / to make a difference, you want to be funding otherwise unfunded opportunities — where you see something others don’t… where money is most expensive, commands the highest return AND - to put a nice spin on it - where the money matters the most.
So if you find yourself in a competition over a seed deal, IMHO you are a bad capitalist / limiting your returns, an un-creative person / a mere ‘market participant’ (yuck), and also misusing the incredible mandate and license you have to find things and make them happen in the world.
You have to be careful about seeing mirages, because some things / most things are not funded because they are actually bad.. you can’t like things just because they are unliked… BUT your job is to have discipline in the wilderness / in the wander, and as the game evolves … both as a capitalist, and egotistically as someone who realizes how awful it is for your tombstone to say ‘market participant’
NCAA President Charlie Baker pushing college sports leaders and senators to coalesce around the Protect College Sports Act as SEC/B1G decide whether or not to drop their opposition to the bill:
All our videos are live demos EXCEPT for this one. This is an early video from when we were exploring the VOX concept and its use in on-the-go contexts.
What dedicated funds should exist?
- Biosecurity & pandemic preparedness
- AI safety education & advocacy
- AI security & treaty enforcement
- Concentration of power risks
- AI sentience & welfare
- AGI preparedness & economics
- Post-AGI civilization & flourishing futures
@natolambert I wonder if we'll see the opposite where American athletes strive to loosen labor agreements with owners as to increase salary cap (remove it??
👀) and agency. Guaranteed contracts complicate matters but that could become a concession from the PA. Far off for sure @JonesOnTheNBA
@Scobleizer@WillieNelson Robert which mode do you have it drive you in usually? I love the safety aspects of AVs but it irks me that there's an option for hurry mode, especially when it goes beyond speed limit