I. I’ve been investing in early-stage technology businesses for about fifteen years. For most of that time, I believed venture capital was a search for a particular kind of opportunity: a problem people solved badly, a market where they spent heavily to solve it anyway, and a team
The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. Psalm 118:22 (ESV) I. Not long ago I came across an ad for the Horowitz Andreessen Academy, a new school in San Francisco for young people who would rather build things than spend four years in college. It admits
On Curiosity as a Form of Love I. Last night I overheard a conversation that has stayed with me. Someone asked a man whether he believed in a literal reading of the Bible. He answered, "Yes, and I also believe that none of us is intelligent enough to understand
My writing is an effort to learn effective philanthropy. I have found that I cannot see far or well enough without the writing. We arrive in this life as takers, returning to those who care for us only an unintended love, a purpose we did not mean to give. Then
A Philanthropic Thesis "It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." – Edmund Burke, Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, 1791. I. You can lose your freedom in two ways: it can be