Michael Moe

Investor + Entrepreneur, Founder @GSVTEAM, Author of Mission Corporations, The Global Silicon Valley Handbook and Finding the Next Starbucks

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Many people are saying.

[Michael Moe @michaelmoe]

You get better or you get worse…you don’t stay the same. AI resents the opportunity to radically change the game in how students learn. With a tireless tutor for all…teachers can become coaches and motivators to inspire students

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

AI doomerism exists, in part, because solutions to our most important problems still remain unsolved while examples of superficial process automation abound.

We’ve lost the script.

If AI wants to be celebrated, it should put solutions to some of society’s greatest problems at the front of the line.

Case in point…why hasn’t anyone focused on an AI for fixing the growing illiteracy of our children?

[Michael Moe @michaelmoe]

With one of the greatest business models of all time….ultra low prices creates massive float

[a16z @a16z]

Costco is the king of low prices

Charts of the Week: https://t.co/PGxjCSffOC

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

This is awesome. I’ve worked with Sue for more than a decade now. She started Brilliant - a learning site for advanced learning - which has now taken all of that decade-long training data and created a helper to make your kids smarter.

It doesn’t matter their level, this adapts to them and brings them along.

Please consider trying it.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Alexander Hamilton returns.

[Michael Moe @michaelmoe]

And the answer is? Texodus wasn’t a coincidence…..

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher asks how Mississippi is kicking California’s ass in education, and Texas is “blowing them away” in green energy for “way less money.”

“Did you know that a black fourth grader in Mississippi is two and a half times as likely to be proficient in math and reading as one in California? Mississippi is kicking our ass in education and for way less money. We’re 37th in fourth-grade reading, they’re ninth.”

“Texas is kicking our ass in green energy. The average time to get solar panels connected there is three to four months. About 1,000 days faster than it took me. Remember when I was trying to get my solar hooked up? It would have been quicker to build a windmill.”

“Texas has passed California in solar and blows away California when it comes to wind and energy storage. How does a state with no pro-climate policies produce better climate results than a state where here, even though we have so much better bumper stickers on our Priuses?”

“I’ll tell you why. Because you’re allowed to build there because every third person in Texas isn’t someone whose job it is to make sure nothing gets done.”

“Democrats, these are your issues: education, race, the environment.”

“And I say this with love: you’re losing to the Waffle House, car-on-the-lawn states.”

[Michael Moe @michaelmoe]

POW! The POwer of Women Sports!

[Michael Moe @michaelmoe]

Morning juice🧃

[Michael Moe @michaelmoe]

We all miss Coach Campbell…it’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years since we lost him.

[Big Brain Business @BigBrainBizness]

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt explains how a simple pen-and-paper habit on weekends helped him take charge of every week:

The habit came from his late coach, Bill Campbell, the legendary executive coach featured in the book Trillion Dollar Coach.

"He really saved me from you know utter destitution and helped me become a proper CEO," Schmidt explains.

The rule is deceptively simple:

Work as hard as you can during the week, then deliberately carve out quiet thinking time on the weekend.

Schmidt describes it like this:

"You work really hard during the week as hard as you can you know 12 hours 14 hour days whatever and on the weekends when you're at home or with your family or whatever carve out a few hours to think... and write down your assessment of what you did last week and then what you need to do next week to address the things you forgot to do last week."

The mechanism that makes it work is the writing itself.

Putting pen to paper turns passive reflection into an active audit of the week behind you and a deliberate plan for the week ahead.

@ericschmidt acknowledges how basic it sounds, but insists that's the point:

"I know that that sounds kind of obvious, but it's a good trick cuz it forces you to take charge of your next week."

He gives concrete examples of what surfaces during these sessions:

"Like, oh, I forgot that I have a sales problem over there, or I forgot I was supposed to call this person. Oh, I didn't have this proposal and I had this idea, but I didn't get to it."

Leadership isn't sustained by working harder inside the week. A few quiet hours and an honest review of what you missed are often what separates reactive operators from CEOs in command of their priorities.

[Michael Moe @michaelmoe]

This is a wow!

[Emotion & Music @Emotion78687]

That’s a fucking war🔥

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

This powerful 60-second video captures the true meaning of Memorial Day

CHILLS 🇺🇸

[Michael Moe @michaelmoe]

🙏🙏🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Michael Moe @michaelmoe]

@howertonjosh is bringing it…love his perspectives ❤️

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

When God wanted to make David a king, He didn't give him a crown, He gave him a Goliath.

A lot of times when you feel like God's "breaking" you, He's actually BUILDING you for a specific purpose.

I just know there is someone who desperately needs to hear this today.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Yes

[Michael Moe @michaelmoe]

From one of the best SV product guys ever….

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Jack Dorsey on Twitter’s biggest mistake in the early days

“One of the greatest lessons that I learned in starting and running Twitter — and starting and running Square — is how important it is to instrument all usage.”

Jack explains why product metrics are so important:

“For the first two years of Twitter’s life, we were flying blind. We had no idea what was going on with the network… with how people were using it. We were making guesses and basing everything on intuition, instead of having a good balance between intuition and data.”

Twitter’s product was also going down all the time because of it, commonly referred to as the “Fail Whale” incidents. The image, depicting a whale being lifted by birds, became a symbol of Twitter’s repeated service disruptions.

Jack didn’t make the same mistake twice when founding Square:

“The first thing I wrote for Square was an admin dashboard, and we have a very strong discipline within the company to log everything, measure everything, and test everything. We treat the dashboard, analytics, and data as a product — we call it the Inference Team. Their job is to instrument all usage and infer all action.”

Source: @Stanford (Jun 2011)

[Michael Moe @michaelmoe]

People who call the truth hate speech really just hate the truth….

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Jeff Bezos: "If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, packages would take 6 weeks to arrive, we would charge you a $100 delivery fee and when the package did finally arrive, it would have the wrong item in it."

[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

Young people under 35 with MBAs are facing the highest unemployment levels in nearly 20 years.

Now there’s a fire sale on MBAs.

A decade ago, only 32% of universities offered MBA scholarships.

Today? It’s 49%.

The market is dictating demand for MBA’s.

[Bill Gurley @bgurley]

Important watch. Thomas Kane at Harvard is doing amazing work collecting annual data that can help drive improvement in US K-12 education. Many problems. Some bright spots.

[Michael Moe @michaelmoe]

Morning juice🧃…7 WORST Limiting Beliefs That BLOCK YOUR SUCCESS https://t.co/x60chQMTFl via @YouTube

[Michael Moe @michaelmoe]

💯heart of a non profit…ambition of a for profit

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Jensen Huang: “Money is the only singular reason not to start a company“

“Money is the only singular reason not to start a company. Because starting a company has a very low probability of success. And so if that is your reason for doing it, you will likely regret the experience… You should build a company because you believe in your idea, you’re passionate about it, and you want to build something great… You have to have a perspective that’s unique and that you feel really strongly about, so you’re willing to persevere almost any challenge to make it happen.”

Source: @Stanford Jun (2011)