In my experience the best founders develop a fighter mentality. Mark Zuckerberg was a fighter, and without that mentality Facebook would never have achieved its full potential. Here’s what I saw over 13 years working for Zuck:
Before a cyber breach happens, there is time to find and fix vulnerabilities. When the breach happens, hell breaks loose. The organization can still recover. It will just cost up to 1000x more. That's the price of inattention, procrastination or negligence, as the case may be.
Every company has reason to be, but I can’t help but feel that sometimes capital allocation is messed up:
- VCs are going mental on 10 min grocery delivery: $290m raised by 1 company today.
- Meanwhile, we announced $6m to give every cancer patient a fighting chance at survival.
Congratulations to those who bought Bitcoin early, pumped up the price, and who've been dumping into the hype. You succeeded in getting Wall Street to buy into the mania. When I first learned about #Bitcoin I didn't think smart investors would be dumb enough to buy. I was wrong.
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