Barometer Rising
Source: Goldman Sachs
The Goldman Sachs IPO Issuance Barometer represents a gauge for market participants to monitor if the macro environment is conducive to new IPOs. While we have seen volumes pick-up, there hasn’t been a material surge just yet. The barometer would suggest that volume should continue to improve this year, which would introduce some much-needed liquidity to private markets.
Jerry Seinfeld Commencement Speech
Jerry Seinfeld gives the type of career advice we espouse, with about 500% better delivery. A great one to share around!
Effort always yields a positive value. Even if the outcome of the effort is absolute failure and not the desired result.
Vinod Khosla’s top predictions
Venture and technology legend Vinod Khosla gave an excellent talk at TED on his predictions for the future. Predictions are rarely useful on their own, but the actual process of making predictions and working through intelligent people’s views can be very valuable indeed.
Only the improbable is important, but we don’t know which improbable is important.
Ben Franklin: The Thirteen Necessary Virtues.
A quick one listing the virtues Ben Franklin thought were necessary or desirable. Some things stand the test of time.
Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
With spatial intelligence, AI will understand the real world.
A look at the path to the current generation, and where we may be going from here. There are so many different permutations of what the world may look like as AI continues to improve, which makes it crucial for executives and investors to pay very close attention.
Imagine patients with severe paralysis controlling robots with their thoughts to perform everyday tasks that you and I take for granted.
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