From a profile on the New Yorker that I only just now had the ill-fated idea of reading: Andreessen is tomorrow’s advance man, routinely laying out “what will happen in the next ten, twenty, thirty years,” as if he were glancing at his Google calendar. He views his acuity as a matter of careful observation […]
siliconvalley
Un documentario di WIRED su Shenzhen, per questa domenica (merita, guardatelo).
We examine the unique manufacturing ecosystem that has emerged, gaining access to the world’s leading hardware-prototyping culture whilst challenging misconceptions from the west. The film looks at how the evolution of “Shanzhai” – or copycat manufacturing – has transformed traditional models of business, distribution and innovation, and asks what the rest of the world can learn from this so-called “Silicon Valley of hardware”.
Silicon Valley spiegata da “Silicon Valley”
Il New Yorker su Silicon Valley, la serie TV di HBO: “Silicon Valley,” now in its third season, is one of the funniest shows on television; it is also the first ambitious satire of any form to shed much light on the current socio-cultural moment in Northern California. The show derives its energy from two […]
Il vincitore si prende tutto
Om Malik: In the course of nearly two decades of closely following (and writing about) Silicon Valley, I have seen products and markets go through three distinct phases. The first is when there is a new idea, product, service, or technology dreamed up by a clever person or group of people. For a brief while, […]
Su unicorni e startup
David Heinmeier ha creato Ruby on Rails e fondato, più di dieci anni fa, Basecamp. Basecamp è un software per coordinare e collaborare su un progetto, recentemente completamente ridisegnato. Basecamp ha avuto negli anni un discreto successo, ma non ha mai disruptato nulla, né è mai diventato un unicorn ricevendo milioni su milioni da investitori. […]
Com’è una fashion week nella Silicon Valley
A “indossare” i vestiti sono i droni — direi la migliore fashion week ad oggi.