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Your real competitive edge isn’t how smart you are — it’s how quickly you can reinvent yourself when the rules change.
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Tech leaders may have backed Trump in 2024, but the majority of the community still leans left -- and has a big opportunity ahead.
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At the foundation of America’s progress movement are immigrants who still believe this country can build.
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Investment in quantum is growing. Anastasia Marchenkova wants to make sure funders still ask the tough questions.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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A conversation with the legendary VC on his latest book, his work at Techstars, and why “give first” is more than a motto — it’s a mindset.
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The cofounder and CEO of red-hot billing platform Metronome unpacks his leadership journey.
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OpenAI has become a household name in artificial intelligence — but back in 2018 things looked very rocky. Here’s what happened.
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From tulips to Bitcoin, bubbles have been given a bad rap as destroyers of dreams — but they’re essential for our brightest future. Here’s why.
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Startup success can often hinge on a key lesson derived from behavioral science ... and Jerry Seinfeld's "Night Guy vs. Morning Guy" routine.
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Semyon Dukach — founding partner of VC firm One Way Ventures — adds balance to the founder mode debate.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Big Think asks startup legend and VC heavyweight Ben Horowitz to reflect on his bestseller "The Hard Thing About Hard Things."
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The military is courting tech startups to help it win the AI arms race.
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To kickstart innovation follow the insider startup knowledge about charisma, “well-rounded square pegs,” and rock-solid teams.
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Former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman just invested $100 million into the company.
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You know ChatGPT, but how much do you know about the company that made it? Journalist Karen Hao joins us to talk OpenAI’s latest implosion.
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Aragon AI CEO Wesley Tian tells Big Think Business how he took his company from initial conception, through acceleration, to the scaling phase.
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A "stakehodler" has both a voice and a vote, an economic interest in how each network stewards important global resources.
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Whether you’re a leader looking to ramp up team output or just trying to improve your skill set, hard work alone is not enough.
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Crypto is a lot of things, but it isn’t a currency. "Shark Tank" investor Kevin O’Leary, a.k.a. “Mr. Wonderful,” breaks down what it would take to get there.
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Economist Tyler Cowen explains why intelligence is overrated. Here’s what to look for instead.
After mammoth investments and two decades of anti-aging research, what do immortality proponents have to show for it?
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Unlike the first Roaring Twenties, these won’t end with a Great Depression.
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Covid-19 drove his start-up through the trenches. Now Austen Allred is sharing his secret that lead his start-up out of a recession.
Why does Seattle continue to be a place that nurtures the development of breakthrough technologies but not Minneapolis, Memphis, or Minsk?
wires of war
In his new book, "The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power," Jacob Helberg outlines the brewing cyberwar between Western democracies and autocracies like China and Russia.
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Battery-powered urban aircraft are well within the bounds of technological reality.