- Interesting food for thought: legendary investor Fred Wilson (Twitter, Etsy, Kickstarter, Coinbase) describes a new business model for Web 3 and perhaps AI applications: minting. At its core: shared ownership with users.
- Sam Altman, the founder and CEO of OpenAI, is seeking billions to build a network of chip factories. The goal is clear: become less dependent on NVIDIA. Remarkable that the man manages to raise billions as a side hustle.
- Altman, by the way, was a guest of Bill Gates in a podcast, unfortunately recorded before the OpenAI king drama. Watching Bill Gates, surely a great, great friend of Altman's, is never a treat and listening doesn't prove much more entertaining, but the transcript is excellent.
- Investor and founder of LinkedIn Reid Hoffman shares his thoughts on "a plausible reality. Note his description of a search for an oasis rather than a mirage.
- Another American investor and entrepreneur, Chris Dixon, wrote a book that I have not yet read but whose review by Fred Wilson is already remarkable. The book is called "Read Write Own, Building the Next Era of the Internet" and will be published this week.
