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Oct 16, 2023 · Markets. We believe free markets are the most effective way to organize a technological economy. Willing buyer meets willing seller, a price is struck, both sides benefit from the exchange or it doesn’t happen. Profits are the incentive for producing supply that fulfills demand. Prices encode information about supply and demand.
- Tren Griffin
- “Give me a giant market — always.” “Arthur Rock is the representative of: you find a great entrepreneur and you back him. My position has always been: you find a great market and you build multiple companies in that market.”
- “A value hypothesis is an attempt to articulate the key assumption that underlies why a customer is likely to use your product. Identifying a compelling value hypothesis is what I call finding product/market fit.
- “You often stumble into your product/market fit. Serendipity plays a role in finding product/market fit but the process to get to serendipity is incredibly consistent.
- “You can always feel when product/market fit isn’t happening. The customers aren’t quite getting value out of the product, word of mouth isn’t spreading, usage isn’t growing that fast, press reviews are kind of ‘blah’, the sales cycle takes too long, and lots of deals never close.
— to imagine a product that does not yet exist and bring it into existence, without any of the constraints normally faced by larger companies. The opportunity to have an impact on the world — to give people a new way to communicate, a new way to share information, a new way to work together, or anything else you can think of that
1 Financial Markets: Functions, Institutions, and Traded Assets 1 1.1 What is the purpose of finance? 2 1.2 Traded assets 12 1.2.1 The balance sheet 15 1.2.2 Assets vs. securities 20 1.2.3 Equity 22 1.2.4 Fixed income 24 1.2.5 FOREX markets 27 1.2.6 Derivatives 29 1.3 Market participants and their roles 46 1.3.1 Commercial vs. investment banks 48
These changes laid the groundwork for the modern world by giving rise to the WEIRD mentality that would coevolve with impersonal markets, occupational specialisation, and free competition.
Conversely, in a terrible market, you can have the best product in the world, absolutely killer team. It doesn't matter. You're going to fail. The number one company killer is a lack of market." Andy Radcliffe has another way of saying it. When a great team meets a lousy market, the market wins.
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Summary. In the 1990s, just out of college, Andreessen went knocking on VC doors in Silicon Valley, looking to fund what became the breakthrough web browser Netscape Navigator. Within 18 months...
