Episode 43: The Square IPO
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Episode 43: The Square IPO mentions World After Capital by Albert Wenger and Hatching Twitter by Nick Belton with timestamps, quotes, and episode context.
it's a really interesting book where he sort of argues that, um, that we're moving past, uh, world where capital is the expensive and scarce thing.
there's a whole book hatching Twitter all about this, which I actually haven't read.
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“The book discusses the shift from a world where capital is scarce to one where knowledge is the scarce resource, exploring implications for AI and machine learning.”
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“Nick Belton, who wrote hatching Twitter, has a great new podcast called inside the hive and he had Bob Iger, the Disney CEO on.”
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