Psychohistory

On May 22, at the age of 100 1/2, my grandmother Flora passed away.

Figma’s first conference, Config 2020.

A happy engaged couple in their 20s before they figure out how to integrate their finances… (July 2001) Living a healthy financial life is far more difficult than most people believe.

This blog post was also published on Daffy.org Steve Jobs famously talked about connecting the dots of your life in his now well-known commencement speech in 2005.

One of the reasons that I am so passionate about entrepreneurship is because of my belief that companies can be highly effective agents of change.

Figma’s first conference, Config 2020.

Like many people, for most of my career, I never set an explicit goal for giving to charity.

In 2020, I set off to build a new company.

A little less than four years ago, I wrote a post about home prices in Silicon Valley and how they relate to stock prices and Bitcoin.

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” — Lao Tzu As the year draws to a close, I wanted to share some good news: Alejandro Crosa & I have started a new company, and we’ve raised an initial round of funding led by Ribbit Capital.

When I first joined Greylock at the end of 2011, Fintech wasn’t even a word that was commonly used in the venture capital community.

Today, I’m happy to announce that I’ve joined the Board of Directors of Shift, a company that has spent the last 6 years reimagining the used car experience.

Some personal news to share today.

On October 8, 2019, I was asked to give my talk, “Be A Great Product Leader” to a huge audience at Amplify 2019, the product management conference organized by Amplitude.* The talk is named after possibly my most famous blog post on the topic of product l…

Source: Deseret News, Jan 24, 2020 On January 23, 2020, Clayton Christensen passed away at the age of 67.

One of the fond memories I have of my first two years at LinkedIn was coming into the office almost every Sunday to spend a couple of hours with Reid Hoffman.

Every time I go to the CODE Conference, I learn something new.

Over the course of my career, I’ve been fortunate enough to work in a variety of different functions.

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

On March 8th, Dick Weil, co-CEO of London-based Janus Henderson Investors,wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal arguing that the SEC should prevent index-funds from voting on shareholder proxies.

On December 25, 2017, I tweeted out a page from the World Economic Forum about Ikigai and was shocked at how broadly it spread.

For those looking for the course material, I’ve posted the slides for all 10 sessions on a parallel site: http://cs007.blog On September 26th, I had the great pleasure of officially kicking off a brand new course at Stanford University, “Personal Finance…

Update: For those looking for full course material, I’m posting it on a parallel site: http://cs007.blog Yesterday, I had the great pleasure of officially kicking off a new course at Stanford University, “Personal Finance for Engineers“.

As the father of young children, I can tell you that there is a special place in my heart for restaurants that provide puzzles and crayons for small children to pass the time.

“Every day stuff happens to us.

I’m writing this post with a bit of trepidation, because talking about Silicon Valley home prices these days is a bit dicey.

Today, Reid Hoffman shared the news that I’ve rejoined Greylock Partners at an Executive in Residence.

This is an extension to my original three post series on user acquisition.

A few years ago, I wrote a few posts to outline the requirements for exceptional product leadership: In “Be a Great Product Leader,” I focused on three key responsibilities: strategy, prioritization & execution.

In 2016, voice-based interfaces exploded into the imagination of the startup community as a potential new consumer platform.