Amazon insights, VC gutsy talking, diversification – TWRL

[TWRL – This Week on my Reading List –  a weekly compilation of interesting articles, reports, podcasts, videos, books, life discovered on Internet and elsewhere]

TWRL 28Oct-2018

• Watch this bold, gutsy take on current day self-focused VC operations by Social Capital Founder Chamath Palihapitiya (watch from 21:45). A level-headed guy!
• Another piece by Chamath on his fund becoming more internal funding driven, shunning outside capital. A passionate note.
• Execution is all it matters. A case study (Sears), how it faltered after a successful investor took over its reins and started applying theoretical decentralization concepts without much of reality dosage
• Art dealers earn more than artists themselves. The fundamental weave behind this is diversification as a tool. Nice perspective by @safalniveshak
• Started reading Amazon’s shareholder letters Truly loving them. Some of the snippets here –

 On Long Term thinking and Customer need driven 

      On physical stores, he denied he lacked skills after more than 1.5 decade, he did it    

      On Amazon AWS bet in 2006

    Celebrate every milestone

    Math based decision vs judgement based decision

         Team of missionaries | counter balance of info snacking | Kindle

TWRL – Amazon’s Teardown, Blockchain based hiring, Swiggy’s success

[TWRL – This Week on my Reading List –  a weekly compilation of interesting articles, reports, podcasts, videos, books, life discovered on Internet and elsewhere]

TWRL 23-Sept-2018

• Amazon Strategy – Impressive analysis on Amazon juggernaut in various fields – Retail formats, Healthcare, AI, financial services and laundry list of investments can scare any big enterprise. Amazon is on role.                                                       Image Source: CBSInsights

•  Google Image recognition attempts to make it more smarter, crowdsource led and going global.
• Swiggy success – I still remember, Swiggy’s first delivery services opened near my office in Bangalore. When I first heard the service, I felt weird how could one scale the delivery operations and make a business. Fast forward few years, I realize the ingenuity and entrepreneurship behind the idea that makes it tick. Of course, need some luck as well.
• Ideas keep pouring. Using Blockchain, verifying your resumes and professional experiences. Springrole – check out this interesting hiring startup story from Bangalore.
• ICOs (Initial Coin offering) boom in India.