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Co-author, with Peter Thiel, of Zero to One – more than 2.5 million copies sold worldwide.. Chief Operating Officer at Thiel Capital and President of The Thiel Foundation. Co-founded Judicata and Spar, formerly Box and Founders Fund, studied at Stanford and Stanford Law School. Husband, dad.. My overarching professional goal has always been to find the most interesting work possible and to NOTES ESSAYS—PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP—STANFORD, SPRING Notes Essays—Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup—Stanford, Spring 2012 ***** Update: Peter and I have written a book, based on these notes.Zero to One is a #1 NYT Bestseller, with more than 2.5 million copies sold worldwide. Order it here.WHY ZERO TO ONE?
Why Zero to One? Anyone familiar with this blog is familiar with my notes from Peter Thiel’s startup course at Stanford. With over 350,000 readers, more than a million page views, and coverage in the New York Times and Forbes (to name a few), the notes have had a goodrun.
PETER THIEL'S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 1 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 1 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely. We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness. Details are well understood; the big picture remains unclear. PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 11 Notes Essay Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 11 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Credit for good stuff is PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 9 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 9 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is PASS THE CA BAR EXAM IN 100 HOURS V. Conclusion. You can absolutely pass the California Bar by studying for 100 hours or less, and not getting freaked out is a key component of that. The obvious pushback is that neither my advice nor my approach is applicable to people whose careers are on the line when they sit for the exam. PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 3 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 3 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely. Please note that I actually missed this class (I was on myhoneymoon!).
WHY I TURNED DOWN $160,000 Why I Turned Down $160,000. Back in January, I declined my offer to work at a prominent law firm that pays first-year associates $160,000 per year. Instead, I decided to co-found a legal technology company called Amicus Labs. There are 3 primary reasons why choosing a startup over law firm was the right choice (and, frankly, a pretty easy BLAKE MASTERSWHY ZERO TO ONE2 BILLION UNDER 20WEAPONS OF MASS DILUTIONABOUTCS183LEAP FORWARD Blake Masters is Chief Operating Officer at Thiel Capital, President of The Thiel Foundation, and co-author, with Peter Thiel, of Zero toOne. He went to
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Co-author, with Peter Thiel, of Zero to One – more than 2.5 million copies sold worldwide.. Chief Operating Officer at Thiel Capital and President of The Thiel Foundation. Co-founded Judicata and Spar, formerly Box and Founders Fund, studied at Stanford and Stanford Law School. Husband, dad.. My overarching professional goal has always been to find the most interesting work possible and to NOTES ESSAYS—PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP—STANFORD, SPRING Notes Essays—Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup—Stanford, Spring 2012 ***** Update: Peter and I have written a book, based on these notes.Zero to One is a #1 NYT Bestseller, with more than 2.5 million copies sold worldwide. Order it here.WHY ZERO TO ONE?
Why Zero to One? Anyone familiar with this blog is familiar with my notes from Peter Thiel’s startup course at Stanford. With over 350,000 readers, more than a million page views, and coverage in the New York Times and Forbes (to name a few), the notes have had a goodrun.
PETER THIEL'S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 1 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 1 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely. We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness. Details are well understood; the big picture remains unclear. PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 11 Notes Essay Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 11 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Credit for good stuff is PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 9 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 9 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is PASS THE CA BAR EXAM IN 100 HOURS V. Conclusion. You can absolutely pass the California Bar by studying for 100 hours or less, and not getting freaked out is a key component of that. The obvious pushback is that neither my advice nor my approach is applicable to people whose careers are on the line when they sit for the exam. PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 3 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 3 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely. Please note that I actually missed this class (I was on myhoneymoon!).
WHY I TURNED DOWN $160,000 Why I Turned Down $160,000. Back in January, I declined my offer to work at a prominent law firm that pays first-year associates $160,000 per year. Instead, I decided to co-found a legal technology company called Amicus Labs. There are 3 primary reasons why choosing a startup over law firm was the right choice (and, frankly, a pretty easyBLAKE MASTERS
Co-author, with Peter Thiel, of Zero to One – more than 2.5 million copies sold worldwide.. Chief Operating Officer at Thiel Capital and President of The Thiel Foundation. Co-founded Judicata and Spar, formerly Box and Founders Fund, studied at Stanford and Stanford Law School. Husband, dad.. My overarching professional goal has always been to find the most interesting work possible and toBLAKE MASTERS
Judicata: The Path of the Law. I’m delighted to announce that my startup, Judicata, has raised $2 million from Peter Thiel, David Lee of SV Angel, Keith Rabois, and Box founders Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith. 1 Our mission is clear: to build legal research and analytics products that dramatically advance what lawyers can do. Legal technology is at something of a crossroads. PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 18 Notes Essay Here is an essay version of my class notes. Errors and omissions are mine. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s. Thanks to Joel Cazares for helping JUDICATA: THE PATH OF THE LAW Judicata: The Path of the Law. I’m delighted to announce that my startup, Judicata, has raised $2 million from Peter Thiel, David Lee of SV Angel, Keith Rabois, and Box founders Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith. 1 Our mission is clear: to build legal research and analytics products that dramatically advance what lawyers can do. Legal technology is at something of a crossroads. PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 16 - Decoding Ourselves. He is an essay version of my class notes from Class 16 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Thanks to @1wu for some supplementary notes! Three guests joined the class for a conversation after Peter’s remarks: Brian Slingerland. Co-Founder, President & COO atStem CentRx;
PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 19 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from the last class of CS183: Startup, class 19. Errors and omissions are mine. The following three guests joined the class for a discussion: Sonia Arrison, tech analyst, author of 100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity will Change Everything PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 8 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 8 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Bruce Gibney, partner at Founders Fund, gave the lecture these notes are based on. Credit for good stuff goes to himand Founders Fund.
PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 5 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 5 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Stephen Cohen, co-founder and Executive VP of Palantir Technologies, and Max Levchin of PayPal and Slide fame joined this class as guest speakers. Credit for good stuff goes to them and ZERO TO ONE IS OFF TO A GREAT START. WE WERE... September 22, 2014. 27 notes. Zero to One is off to a great start. We were among Amazon's top 10 best sellers all launch week (Disney’s Little Golden Book “Frozen” has proved formidable competition), and tens of thousands of people are now reading the book. We’re certainly staying busy. PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 2 Notes Essay Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 2 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s BLAKE MASTERSWHY ZERO TO ONE2 BILLION UNDER 20WEAPONS OF MASS DILUTIONABOUTCS183LEAP FORWARD Blake Masters is Chief Operating Officer at Thiel Capital, President of The Thiel Foundation, and co-author, with Peter Thiel, of Zero toOne. He went to
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Co-author, with Peter Thiel, of Zero to One – more than 2.5 million copies sold worldwide.. Chief Operating Officer at Thiel Capital and President of The Thiel Foundation. Co-founded Judicata and Spar, formerly Box and Founders Fund, studied at Stanford and Stanford Law School. Husband, dad.. My overarching professional goal has always been to find the most interesting work possible and to NOTES ESSAYS—PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP—STANFORD, SPRING Notes Essays—Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup—Stanford, Spring 2012 ***** Update: Peter and I have written a book, based on these notes.Zero to One is a #1 NYT Bestseller, with more than 2.5 million copies sold worldwide. Order it here. PETER THIEL'S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 1 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 1 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely. We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness. Details are well understood; the big picture remains unclear. A LOT HAS HAPPENED SINCE I LAST POSTED NEARLY A... A lot has happened since I last posted nearly a year ago. Peter and I finished writing our book. My team at Judicata has made great progress. And then there’s the most thrilling news of all: I am now a father! Miles Edward Masters was born three weeks ago. Here are some shots from his first few days in this world. PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 6 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 6 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely. This class was kind of a crash course in VC financing. PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 11 Notes Essay Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 11 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Credit for good stuff is PASS THE CA BAR EXAM IN 100 HOURS V. Conclusion. You can absolutely pass the California Bar by studying for 100 hours or less, and not getting freaked out is a key component of that. The obvious pushback is that neither my advice nor my approach is applicable to people whose careers are on the line when they sit for the exam. PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 17 - Deep Thought. He is an essay version of class notes from Class 17 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Three guests joined the class for a conversation after Peter’s remarks: D. Scott Brown, co PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 3 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 3 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely. Please note that I actually missed this class (I was on myhoneymoon!).
BLAKE MASTERSWHY ZERO TO ONE2 BILLION UNDER 20WEAPONS OF MASS DILUTIONABOUTCS183LEAP FORWARD Blake Masters is Chief Operating Officer at Thiel Capital, President of The Thiel Foundation, and co-author, with Peter Thiel, of Zero toOne. He went to
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Co-author, with Peter Thiel, of Zero to One – more than 2.5 million copies sold worldwide.. Chief Operating Officer at Thiel Capital and President of The Thiel Foundation. Co-founded Judicata and Spar, formerly Box and Founders Fund, studied at Stanford and Stanford Law School. Husband, dad.. My overarching professional goal has always been to find the most interesting work possible and to NOTES ESSAYS—PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP—STANFORD, SPRING Notes Essays—Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup—Stanford, Spring 2012 ***** Update: Peter and I have written a book, based on these notes.Zero to One is a #1 NYT Bestseller, with more than 2.5 million copies sold worldwide. Order it here. PETER THIEL'S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 1 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 1 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely. We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness. Details are well understood; the big picture remains unclear. A LOT HAS HAPPENED SINCE I LAST POSTED NEARLY A... A lot has happened since I last posted nearly a year ago. Peter and I finished writing our book. My team at Judicata has made great progress. And then there’s the most thrilling news of all: I am now a father! Miles Edward Masters was born three weeks ago. Here are some shots from his first few days in this world. PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 6 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 6 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely. This class was kind of a crash course in VC financing. PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 11 Notes Essay Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 11 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Credit for good stuff is PASS THE CA BAR EXAM IN 100 HOURS V. Conclusion. You can absolutely pass the California Bar by studying for 100 hours or less, and not getting freaked out is a key component of that. The obvious pushback is that neither my advice nor my approach is applicable to people whose careers are on the line when they sit for the exam. PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 17 - Deep Thought. He is an essay version of class notes from Class 17 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Three guests joined the class for a conversation after Peter’s remarks: D. Scott Brown, co PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 3 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 3 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely. Please note that I actually missed this class (I was on myhoneymoon!).
A LOT HAS HAPPENED SINCE I LAST POSTED NEARLY A... A lot has happened since I last posted nearly a year ago. Peter and I finished writing our book. My team at Judicata has made great progress. And then there’s the most thrilling news of all: I am now a father! Miles Edward Masters was born three weeks ago. Here are some shots from his first few days in this world.BLAKE MASTERS
Russ grew up in a trailer park and managed to escape to the one math and science magnet school in Illinois. Luke and Max had started crazy ventures at Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Max liked to talk about his crazy attributes (he claimed/claims to have 3 kidneys), perhaps even alittle too much.
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Francis Bacon and Peter Thiel on Foundations. I’m reading through Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum (for this class).It’s a pretty amazing work. Aphorism 14 from Book 1 stands out:. The syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words aresymbols of notions.
PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 17 - Deep Thought. He is an essay version of class notes from Class 17 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Three guests joined the class for a conversation after Peter’s remarks: D. Scott Brown, co PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 19 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from the last class of CS183: Startup, class 19. Errors and omissions are mine. The following three guests joined the class for a discussion: Sonia Arrison, tech analyst, author of 100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity will Change Everything PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 16 - Decoding Ourselves. He is an essay version of my class notes from Class 16 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Thanks to @1wu for some supplementary notes! Three guests joined the class for a conversation after Peter’s remarks: Brian Slingerland. Co-Founder, President & COO atStem CentRx;
PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 9 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 9 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 5 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 5 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Stephen Cohen, co-founder and Executive VP of Palantir Technologies, and Max Levchin of PayPal and Slide fame joined this class as guest speakers. Credit for good stuff goes to them and ZERO TO ONE IS OFF TO A GREAT START. WE WERE... September 22, 2014. 27 notes. Zero to One is off to a great start. We were among Amazon's top 10 best sellers all launch week (Disney’s Little Golden Book “Frozen” has proved formidable competition), and tens of thousands of people are now reading the book. We’re certainly staying busy. PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 8 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 8 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Bruce Gibney, partner at Founders Fund, gave the lecture these notes are based on. Credit for good stuff goes to himand Founders Fund.
BLAKE MASTERSWHY ZERO TO ONE2 BILLION UNDER 20WEAPONS OF MASS DILUTIONABOUTCS183LEAP FORWARDBLAKE MASTERS TWITTERPETER THIEL WITHBLAKE MASTERS
Blake Masters is Chief Operating Officer at Thiel Capital, President of The Thiel Foundation, and co-author, with Peter Thiel, of Zero toOne. He went to
NOTES ESSAYS—PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP—STANFORD, SPRING Notes Essays—Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup—Stanford, Spring 2012 ***** Update: Peter and I have written a book, based on these notes.Zero to One is a #1 NYT Bestseller, with more than 2.5 million copies sold worldwide. Order it here. PETER THIEL'S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 1 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 1 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely. We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness. Details are well understood; the big picture remains unclear. A LOT HAS HAPPENED SINCE I LAST POSTED NEARLY A... A lot has happened since I last posted nearly a year ago. Peter and I finished writing our book. My team at Judicata has made great progress. And then there’s the most thrilling news of all: I am now a father! Miles Edward Masters was born three weeks ago. Here are some shots from his first few days in this world.WHY ZERO TO ONE?
Why Zero to One? Anyone familiar with this blog is familiar with my notes from Peter Thiel’s startup course at Stanford. With over 350,000 readers, more than a million page views, and coverage in the New York Times and Forbes (to name a few), the notes have had a goodrun.
PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 11 Notes Essay Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 11 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Credit for good stuff is PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 13 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 13 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely. Class 13 Notes Essay— You Are Not A Lottery Ticket. I. PASS THE CA BAR EXAM IN 100 HOURS V. Conclusion. You can absolutely pass the California Bar by studying for 100 hours or less, and not getting freaked out is a key component of that. The obvious pushback is that neither my advice nor my approach is applicable to people whose careers are on the line when they sit for the exam. WHY I TURNED DOWN $160,000 Why I Turned Down $160,000. Back in January, I declined my offer to work at a prominent law firm that pays first-year associates $160,000 per year. Instead, I decided to co-found a legal technology company called Amicus Labs. There are 3 primary reasons why choosing a startup over law firm was the right choice (and, frankly, a pretty easy PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 3 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 3 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely. Please note that I actually missed this class (I was on myhoneymoon!).
BLAKE MASTERSWHY ZERO TO ONE2 BILLION UNDER 20WEAPONS OF MASS DILUTIONABOUTCS183LEAP FORWARDBLAKE MASTERS TWITTERPETER THIEL WITHBLAKE MASTERS
Blake Masters is Chief Operating Officer at Thiel Capital, President of The Thiel Foundation, and co-author, with Peter Thiel, of Zero toOne. He went to
NOTES ESSAYS—PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP—STANFORD, SPRING Notes Essays—Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup—Stanford, Spring 2012 ***** Update: Peter and I have written a book, based on these notes.Zero to One is a #1 NYT Bestseller, with more than 2.5 million copies sold worldwide. Order it here. PETER THIEL'S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 1 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 1 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely. We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness. Details are well understood; the big picture remains unclear. A LOT HAS HAPPENED SINCE I LAST POSTED NEARLY A... A lot has happened since I last posted nearly a year ago. Peter and I finished writing our book. My team at Judicata has made great progress. And then there’s the most thrilling news of all: I am now a father! Miles Edward Masters was born three weeks ago. Here are some shots from his first few days in this world.WHY ZERO TO ONE?
Why Zero to One? Anyone familiar with this blog is familiar with my notes from Peter Thiel’s startup course at Stanford. With over 350,000 readers, more than a million page views, and coverage in the New York Times and Forbes (to name a few), the notes have had a goodrun.
PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 11 Notes Essay Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 11 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Credit for good stuff is PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 13 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 13 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely. Class 13 Notes Essay— You Are Not A Lottery Ticket. I. PASS THE CA BAR EXAM IN 100 HOURS V. Conclusion. You can absolutely pass the California Bar by studying for 100 hours or less, and not getting freaked out is a key component of that. The obvious pushback is that neither my advice nor my approach is applicable to people whose careers are on the line when they sit for the exam. WHY I TURNED DOWN $160,000 Why I Turned Down $160,000. Back in January, I declined my offer to work at a prominent law firm that pays first-year associates $160,000 per year. Instead, I decided to co-found a legal technology company called Amicus Labs. There are 3 primary reasons why choosing a startup over law firm was the right choice (and, frankly, a pretty easy PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 3 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 3 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely. Please note that I actually missed this class (I was on myhoneymoon!).
BLAKE MASTERS
Co-author, with Peter Thiel, of Zero to One – more than 2.5 million copies sold worldwide.. Chief Operating Officer at Thiel Capital and President of The Thiel Foundation. Co-founded Judicata and Spar, formerly Box and Founders Fund, studied at Stanford and Stanford Law School. Husband, dad.. My overarching professional goal has always been to find the most interesting work possible and toBLAKE MASTERS
Russ grew up in a trailer park and managed to escape to the one math and science magnet school in Illinois. Luke and Max had started crazy ventures at Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Max liked to talk about his crazy attributes (he claimed/claims to have 3 kidneys), perhaps even alittle too much.
PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 15 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 15 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Four guests joined the class for a conversation after the lecture: Scott Nolan, Principal at Founders Fund and former aerospace engineer at SpaceX (Elon Musk was going tocome, but he
PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 8 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 8 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Bruce Gibney, partner at Founders Fund, gave the lecture these notes are based on. Credit for good stuff goes to himand Founders Fund.
PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 9 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 9 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 5 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 5 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Stephen Cohen, co-founder and Executive VP of Palantir Technologies, and Max Levchin of PayPal and Slide fame joined this class as guest speakers. Credit for good stuff goes to them and PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 17 - Deep Thought. He is an essay version of class notes from Class 17 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Three guests joined the class for a conversation after Peter’s remarks: D. Scott Brown, co PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 12 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 10 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and Partner at Greylock Partners, joined this class as a guest speaker. Credit for good stuff goes to him and Peter. PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 19 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from the last class of CS183: Startup, class 19. Errors and omissions are mine. The following three guests joined the class for a discussion: Sonia Arrison, tech analyst, author of 100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity will Change Everything JUDICATA RAISES $5.8 MILLION LED BY KHOSLA... Judicata raises $5.8 million led by Khosla Ventures — Guest post from Keith Rabois. Keith Rabois is a partner at Khosla Ventures and former executive at PayPal, LinkedIn, and Square. Follow him ontwitter @rabois.
BLAKE MASTERSWHY ZERO TO ONE2 BILLION UNDER 20WEAPONS OF MASS DILUTIONABOUTCS183LEAP FORWARDBLAKE MASTERS TWITTERPETER THIEL WITHBLAKE MASTERS
Blake Masters is Chief Operating Officer at Thiel Capital, President of The Thiel Foundation, and co-author, with Peter Thiel, of Zero toOne. He went to
NOTES ESSAYS—PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP—STANFORD, SPRING Notes Essays—Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup—Stanford, Spring 2012 ***** Update: Peter and I have written a book, based on these notes.Zero to One is a #1 NYT Bestseller, with more than 2.5 million copies sold worldwide. Order it here. PETER THIEL'S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 1 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 1 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely. We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness. Details are well understood; the big picture remains unclear. A LOT HAS HAPPENED SINCE I LAST POSTED NEARLY A... A lot has happened since I last posted nearly a year ago. Peter and I finished writing our book. My team at Judicata has made great progress. And then there’s the most thrilling news of all: I am now a father! Miles Edward Masters was born three weeks ago. Here are some shots from his first few days in this world.WHY ZERO TO ONE?
Why Zero to One? Anyone familiar with this blog is familiar with my notes from Peter Thiel’s startup course at Stanford. With over 350,000 readers, more than a million page views, and coverage in the New York Times and Forbes (to name a few), the notes have had a goodrun.
PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 11 Notes Essay Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 11 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Credit for good stuff is PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 13 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 13 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely. Class 13 Notes Essay— You Are Not A Lottery Ticket. I. PASS THE CA BAR EXAM IN 100 HOURS V. Conclusion. You can absolutely pass the California Bar by studying for 100 hours or less, and not getting freaked out is a key component of that. The obvious pushback is that neither my advice nor my approach is applicable to people whose careers are on the line when they sit for the exam. WHY I TURNED DOWN $160,000 Why I Turned Down $160,000. Back in January, I declined my offer to work at a prominent law firm that pays first-year associates $160,000 per year. Instead, I decided to co-found a legal technology company called Amicus Labs. There are 3 primary reasons why choosing a startup over law firm was the right choice (and, frankly, a pretty easy PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 8 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 8 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Bruce Gibney, partner at Founders Fund, gave the lecture these notes are based on. Credit for good stuff goes to himand Founders Fund.
BLAKE MASTERSWHY ZERO TO ONE2 BILLION UNDER 20WEAPONS OF MASS DILUTIONABOUTCS183LEAP FORWARDBLAKE MASTERS TWITTERPETER THIEL WITHBLAKE MASTERS
Blake Masters is Chief Operating Officer at Thiel Capital, President of The Thiel Foundation, and co-author, with Peter Thiel, of Zero toOne. He went to
NOTES ESSAYS—PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP—STANFORD, SPRING Notes Essays—Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup—Stanford, Spring 2012 ***** Update: Peter and I have written a book, based on these notes.Zero to One is a #1 NYT Bestseller, with more than 2.5 million copies sold worldwide. Order it here. PETER THIEL'S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 1 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 1 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely. We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness. Details are well understood; the big picture remains unclear. A LOT HAS HAPPENED SINCE I LAST POSTED NEARLY A... A lot has happened since I last posted nearly a year ago. Peter and I finished writing our book. My team at Judicata has made great progress. And then there’s the most thrilling news of all: I am now a father! Miles Edward Masters was born three weeks ago. Here are some shots from his first few days in this world.WHY ZERO TO ONE?
Why Zero to One? Anyone familiar with this blog is familiar with my notes from Peter Thiel’s startup course at Stanford. With over 350,000 readers, more than a million page views, and coverage in the New York Times and Forbes (to name a few), the notes have had a goodrun.
PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 11 Notes Essay Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 11 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Credit for good stuff is PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 13 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 13 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely. Class 13 Notes Essay— You Are Not A Lottery Ticket. I. PASS THE CA BAR EXAM IN 100 HOURS V. Conclusion. You can absolutely pass the California Bar by studying for 100 hours or less, and not getting freaked out is a key component of that. The obvious pushback is that neither my advice nor my approach is applicable to people whose careers are on the line when they sit for the exam. WHY I TURNED DOWN $160,000 Why I Turned Down $160,000. Back in January, I declined my offer to work at a prominent law firm that pays first-year associates $160,000 per year. Instead, I decided to co-found a legal technology company called Amicus Labs. There are 3 primary reasons why choosing a startup over law firm was the right choice (and, frankly, a pretty easy PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 8 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 8 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Bruce Gibney, partner at Founders Fund, gave the lecture these notes are based on. Credit for good stuff goes to himand Founders Fund.
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Co-author, with Peter Thiel, of Zero to One – more than 2.5 million copies sold worldwide.. Chief Operating Officer at Thiel Capital and President of The Thiel Foundation. Co-founded Judicata and Spar, formerly Box and Founders Fund, studied at Stanford and Stanford Law School. Husband, dad.. My overarching professional goal has always been to find the most interesting work possible and to PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 13 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 13 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely. Class 13 Notes Essay— You Are Not A Lottery Ticket. I. PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 15 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 15 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Four guests joined the class for a conversation after the lecture: Scott Nolan, Principal at Founders Fund and former aerospace engineer at SpaceX (Elon Musk was going tocome, but he
PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 8 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 8 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Bruce Gibney, partner at Founders Fund, gave the lecture these notes are based on. Credit for good stuff goes to himand Founders Fund.
PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 6 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 6 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely. This class was kind of a crash course in VC financing. PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 9 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 9 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 17 - Deep Thought. He is an essay version of class notes from Class 17 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Three guests joined the class for a conversation after Peter’s remarks: D. Scott Brown, co PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 19 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from the last class of CS183: Startup, class 19. Errors and omissions are mine. The following three guests joined the class for a discussion: Sonia Arrison, tech analyst, author of 100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity will Change Everything PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 5 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 5 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Stephen Cohen, co-founder and Executive VP of Palantir Technologies, and Max Levchin of PayPal and Slide fame joined this class as guest speakers. Credit for good stuff goes to them and PETER THIEL’S CS183: STARTUP Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 12 Notes Essay. Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 10 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and Partner at Greylock Partners, joined this class as a guest speaker. Credit for good stuff goes to him and Peter.hanföl
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2 BILLION UNDER 20
My friends Stacey and Jared published a book today called 2 BillionUnder 20
.
It was my pleasure to write this foreword to the book: > _“They all laughed at Fulton and his steamboat - Hershey and his > chocolate bar, _>
> _Ford and his Lizzie kept the laughers busy – that’s how people> are”_
>
> -George & Ira Gershwin, They All Laughed>
> History shows that innovators can’t expect to be popular—at > least not at first, and often not ever. That’s the price of doing > new things in a world in which so much of what people do is to > repeat what has been done before. A certain class of > innovator—young people—must be especially prepared to steel > themselves against the scoffing and skepticism they’re sure to > suffer as they try to do anything new. The world has given up > expecting new things from kids—why else would we lock them up in > schools and prescribe to each one the same homogenous (and > homogenizing) curriculum for years on end?>
> But sometimes the tracked path doesn’t take. Now more than ever, > young people are realizing that the future is theirs to create, not > something that will simply happen to them. In _2 Billion Under 20_ > you’ll meet 75 remarkable individuals who have learned that it’s > never too early to do something bold. These trailblazers have plenty > in common—each is self-taught in one way or another, and not one > has yet celebrated a 21st birthday. But even more remarkable is just > how diverse they are: from programmers, designers, and writers to > race car drivers, Olympians, and EMTs, their achievements > dazzle—like flying machines in a world used to bicycles and> buggies.
>
> If you type “Millennials are ” into Google’s search bar, the > autocomplete feature suggests “doomed”. But the crowd’s got > this one wrong. This book shows what ambitious young people can get > done, if only we believe in them. Actually, scratch that: they > don’t need our faith. Perhaps all that’s required is that we get > out of their way.Get a copy here
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September 22, 2014
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_Zero to One
_ is
off to a great start. We were among Amazon's top 10 best sellers all launch week (Disney’s Little Golden Book “Frozen” has proved formidable competition), and tens of thousands of people are nowreading the book.
We’re certainly staying busy. I love to see tweets like this one: > Not sure what Peter Thiel is doing so right, but he somehow has > every single media outlet writing about him now>
> — Nick (@NickatFP) September 20, 2014>
Despite a packed schedule, I must say it’s been even more fun than expected. Normally the more things you do, the more tired you get, but actually we’re getting more and more energized as we talk to more people—which is great, since our tour is just getting started.
Here is some of the best coverage from week one.Profiles: Fortune
| The Telegraph
Q&A: reddit AMA
| The Guardian
TV: CBS This Morning| CNN
Reviews: The New Republic| The Economist
| The Week
Events: The New York TimesMay 31, 2014
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A lot has happened since I last posted nearly a year ago. Peter and I finished writing our book.
My team at Judicata
has made great progress. And then there’s the most thrilling news of all: I am now a father! Miles Edward Masters was born three weeks ago. Here are some shots from his first few days in this world.Tags: family
June 13, 2013
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WHY ZERO TO ONE?
Anyone familiar with this blog is familiar with my notes from Peter Thiel’s startup course at Stanford. With over 350,000 readers, more than a million page views, and coverage in the New York Times and Forbes (to name a few), the notes have had a good run. But I’m happy to report that they are only the beginning: Peter and I have decided to write a book called _Zero to One_. Why a _book_? For starters, we can make the notes considerably better. Substantively, we are revising, updating, and expanding on the best parts of the class. Everything else will be improved as well. The prose will be stronger and clearer, without losing the atmosphere of openness and experimental thinking that inheres in the notes format. The design and packaging, too, will provide an entirely different readership experience. In short, we can make a book worth owning. More broadly, though, books remain important, whether digital or in print. Our view is that some degree of sustained attention, not just brief scanning, is essential for real thinking. Stepping back from the parade of distractions and seriously engaging with a text affords opportunity to think, plan, and create. As Peter has said, meaningful progress requires that we think about the future for more than 140 characters or 15 minutes at a time. _Zero to One_ will be published by Crown Business, a division of Random House, in March of next year. Stay tuned for lots more details—I’ll try and share as much as I can along the way. Meantime, you can sign up for updates or follow along on twitter/fbhere
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Or pre-order here
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May 28, 2013
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JUDICATA RAISES $5.8 MILLION LED BY KHOSLA VENTURES — GUEST POSTFROM KEITH RABOIS
_Keith Rabois is a partner at Khosla Ventures and former executive at PayPal, LinkedIn, and Square. Follow him ontwitter @rabois ._
------------------------- A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… I was an attorney. Indeed, I devoted most of the 1990s to the practice of law, clerking for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and then litigating for the preeminent Wall Street law firm, Sullivan &Cromwell.
As a young lawyer, most of my billable hours were devoted to legal research and writing. I recall slaving away at my computer, endlessly querying LexisNexis and Westlaw and becoming frustrated with the limitations of crude keyword search and arcane Boolean operators. Indeed, my hack was to spend many days and nights in the library reading cases in _printed books_ to track down the key facts and subtle distinctions that the “computer” could not grasp. Of course, most of the world of technology has advanced since those dark days. But not legal research. Until now. Fixing legal research is a major task. To start, it requires a scalable method of extracting meaning from millions of cases, not just adding a more advanced search engine on top of the text.Judicata
is developing an intuitive search technology that groks all of the facets of legal precedent. In a matter of moments, their software helps a lawyer retrieve everything she needs, comprehensively, accurately, and painlessly. By early next year, the team will ship the new tool of choice for California’s 180,000 lawyers. According to Crunchbase,
legal technology attracts fewer investment dollars than any other sector, and perhaps for good reason; the problem is difficult, and most companies are taking incremental approaches. Yet there is a lucrative market awaiting the right team with the right approach: the two industry giants generate over $2 billion annually from their legal research products, and the largest 100 law firms alone generated $70 billion of revenue last year. Real innovation is possible in legal technology, and it is on the horizon. We at Khosla Ventures are excited to be working with the Judicata team to prove it.—Keith
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LEAP FORWARD
In 1811, when Cornelius Vanderbilt was 17, he borrowed $100 from his mom to buy a small sailboat. He figured he could make some money by ferrying goods and people around New York Harbor. He was right. When the War of 1812 broke out, Vanderbilt’s competition nearly vanished (presumably, few American transporters were keen on operating in British-infested waters). The demand for effective transport, though—particularly military transport—increased dramatically. Vanderbilt, who quickly acquired the nickname “Commodore” for his prowess on the water, was all too happy to service the need and profit handsomely therefrom. Vanderbilt, of course, was the sort of guy who thought seriously about the future, and the future, he thought, was steam power. So in 1818 he sold his fleet, leased a steamship called _Bellona_ from a guy named Thomas Gibbons, and began to operate his ferry business 2.0. But there was trouble on the water. The New York legislature had seen fit to grant a monopoly on steamboat service to a couple of guys named Fulton and Livingston. Some operators, like Gibbons, respected the edict and stayed out of the water. Others, like Aaron Ogden, cowed and paid the Fulton-Livingston partnership for an operating license. But Vanderbilt was made of different stuff. He just wanted to build a great business. What good are rules when they stand in the way of building great businesses? Unsurprisingly, suits were filed. (Ogden was the plaintiff in the one you’ve probably heard of.)
Interestingly, though, this didn’t seem to matter very much. Initially, Vanderbilt paid the litigation no mind; he continued to provide excellent service and ruthlessly undercut his competition on price. Equal parts sword and shield—he employed a “crew of shoulder-hitters, ready for battle” to ensure orderly moorings at competitor’s docks,1 while also deflecting criticism and developing a Robin Hood-ish mythology—Vanderbilt insisted on forging his own future. You might be aware that Jay-Z just executive produced Baz Luhrmann’s _Gatsby_;
so long as we’re anachronistically weaving Hova lyrics into montages of the long-dead nouveau riche, take a moment to imagine Vanderbilt, as his marine hoplites take control of a pier, blasting: > And government, fuck government, niggas politic themselves.2 The end of the legal battle came in 1824, when the Supreme Court heard the case and ruled for Vanderbilt’s side.
(Vanderbilt, as merciless in court as he was in business, had helped his cause by hiring Daniel Webster—think
Ted Olson and David Boies rolled into one—to represent Gibbons.) Doctrinally, the case was quite important, but that is the stuff of AP US History and 1L year of law school. What matters here is that Vanderbilt was venerated: > “We owe to him,” said a prominent citizen, “the freedom of the > seas as applied to us locally.”3 I think this story is pretty cool in its own right. It’s even cooler, though, to the extent it can help us understand the present. Does the Vanderbilt steamship ordeal remind you of anything more… familiar? Say, much of Silicon Valley right now? I’ll let someone else write the manifesto about how technology is and will likely continue to outpace physical-world regulators and solve problems the government can’t. But cf. Uber/Airbnb/Taskrabbit/Exec/Crowdflower/Turk/3D Printing. It’s hard not to notice that CS can be a powerful mechanism to route around inefficiency and unlock a lot of value. Of course, disruption is risky. People don’t like to be disrupted. Aaron Ogden certainly didn’t. Neither, apparently, do the bureaucrats in DC who are coming after Defense Distributed,
ostensibly because they feel weak and techno-libertarianism scored too many points over the weekend, or something. The best path is usually one that avoids head-on confrontation. But still—very often, it’s messy and complicated where the rubber hits the road. So what should we do then this happens? Play by all the rules? Ask for permission? Or just build something great? To ask the question, hopefully, is to answer it. WWVanderbiltD? Over the last year or so, I’ve had the pleasure of watching my goodfriends Kyle
and Dan
build Leap
,
which, as they bill it, is “a better bus service for San Francisco.” The idea is simple: the city’s MUNI bus system ($2/ride) is slow, overcrowded, and leaves much to be desired.4 But biking (free) isn’t for everyone, and cabs ($20) are expensive. What if we could relieve the MUNI’s load by bringing the private shuttle service that Google and Twitter employees enjoy to… everyone? What if anyone with a smartphone could instantly buy a pass and streamline their commute on a bus with wi-fi, air conditioning, and a comfortable seat? Well, please meet Leap ($6), which launched this week with a line from the Marina to Downtown SF. It’s always fun to watch your friends start new ventures. It’s also fun to see really good products get built. Throw in the delightful parallels to the _Bellona_ line and it’s not hard to imagine Kyle and Dan and company as a couple of proto-Vanderbilts, just trying to get people from point A to point B in a better way. May the streets of San Francisco be their New York Harbor. -------------------------*
Stewart H. Holbrook, The Age of the Moguls, 13 (1953). ↩*
Jay-Z, _Decoded_, 214 (2011). Note the esoteric use of “politic,” glossed in p. 215 n20: “I wrote this at a time when I felt the government was irrelevant to the ways we organized, resolved conflict, and took care of ourselves. “Politic” is slang for the kind of talk that works things out.” ↩*
Holbrook, _supra_, at 13. ↩*
“With a fleet average speed of 8.1 mph, is also the slowest major transit system in America.” _See_ wikipedia. ↩
Tags: work misc
April 23, 2013
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WEAPONS OF MASS DILUTIONOthers
have
written
—some
quite critically
—about
the government’s decision to charge Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with “_unlawfully using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction_.” Colloquially, most people have come to associate WMDs with nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons.1 But 18 USC § 2332a©(2)(A) says that “_any destructive device as defined in 18 USC § 921_” is a “weapon of mass destruction.” Section 921(a)(4)(A) in turn, says that bombs, grenades, and rockets, among other things, are “destructive devices.”2 Since the IEDs used in the Boston attacks are clearly “bombs,” the 2332(a) charge is pretty straightforward. People can argue about whether that statute is too broad, and whether other laws against, say, murder, would suffice. But what caught my eye in § 921(a) was the grenade and rocket stuff. It turns out that another way to say “grenade launcher” or “rocket launcher” is “flare gun.” The government knows this and doesn’t really care about your flares, so there is an exception in 18 USC § 921(a)(4) (and in 26 USC 845(f)(3),
an identical provision in the NFA)
that says that a “_signaling, pyrotechnic, line throwing, safety, or similar device_” is not a destructive device. (Presumably, the ATF would say that a signaling device that is used to launch grenades is no longer a signaling device.) Whether certain kinds of launchers are WMDs thus depends on what sort of ammunition you use or plan to use.3 Firing unregistered grenades or rockets obviously triggers § 921(a)(4)(A) and an avalanche of criminal liability. That makes sense. So what’s between a grenade and a flare? Well, according to the ATF,
“_cartridges containing wood pellets, rubber pellets or balls, or bean bags_” are “_‘anti-personnel’ ammunition_,” so 37/38mm launchers containing such loads are d̶e̶s̶t̶r̶u̶c̶t̶i̶v̶e̶ ̶d̶e̶v̶i̶c̶e̶s̶ WMDs. That’s right: launcher + bean baground = WMD.
DYODD AND _CHECK YOUR STATE LAWS_, but it appears that in some jurisdictions one can order a pretty serious launcher and have it shipped right to his doorstep; absent “anti-personnel” ammo, the federal government doesn’t even consider it a gun. Just stick to fireworks and take care not to possess (let alone fire) any bean bag rounds if you don’t want to spend “a term of years, up to life” in Leavenworth. -------------------------*
After all
,
when the government says WMDs, it usually means NBCs. ↩︎*
By this definition, of course, there were tons of WMDs in Iraq. Not that definitions must be consistent across domestic/international or colloquial/technical contexts, but that’s at least worth thinkingabout. ↩︎
*
Under federal law, 40mm launchers are always destructive devices, and thus must be registered to be lawfully possessed. Launchers < 40mm, as far as I can tell, are different. ↩︎Tags: law misc
February 14, 2013
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I am so lucky. with Catherine – View on Path.
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February 06, 2013
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> Last week, kbs+ Ventures launched “Creative Entrepreneurshp”> ,
> a curated informational and inspirational aid for entrepreneurs. The > book brings together 25 contributors from the world of venture > capital and entrepreneurship around the topics of how to build a > business, how to fundraise, how to hire, and a number of other > strategic and tactical topics for entrepreneurs.>
> Download “Creative Entrepreneurship”>
> to read for free.>
> _More photos here> ;
> photo credit Kyle Dean Reinford> ._
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January 30, 2013
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DROP OUT OR NOT IS THE WRONG QUESTION I did a keynote interview last night at kbs+ venturesfor their new book
’s
launch event. Since I talked a bit about CS183and the Thiel
Fellowship program
,
a few people came up to me afterwards and asked different versions of the same question: if I wanted to be an entrepreneur, why did I get several degrees from Stanford instead of dropping out? My quick answer was that it’s important to avoid blanket statements about education and entrepreneurship. Certainly many successful entrepreneurs have name brand college degrees. But many don’t. Last I looked, Wikipedia’s list of college dropout billionaires is 31 people and counting (and only one of them is a drug lord). I thought that was a shockingly high number, as most of us only know the most famous three or four. If we wanted to talk about dropout _millionaires_, there are so many that we’d probably need scientificnotation.
One of the reasons for this is that the market doesn’t necessarily wait 4 years for you to get your BS or 6 or 7 years for your PhD. In 2003 and 2004, Mark Zuckerberg had a huge advantage in that he was working furiously toward something he sensed was important while his peers were still locked into school. Starting Facebook in 2007 wouldnot have worked.
One key distinction is between businesses that require a lot of specialized domain knowledge and businesses that don’t. Often, this tracks the distinction between enterprise/B2B and consumer models. Bright, well-adjusted 18- or 19-year-olds can develop the kind of social insight that’s at the core of many great products, maybe even better than older folks can. If their engineering skills are adequate, they can build the vision and more or less take over the world. This isn’t to say this is easy, of course—only that it’s verypossible.
Facebook was one example. Another may be Gumroad, a novel e-commerce company run by 20-year-old Sahil Lavingia.
If you aren’t already familiar with it, Gumroad enables anyone to sell something online in a matter of seconds. If you want to sell an e-book, for example, you create a product listing and get a unique link that you can share throughout the web. If, as Sahil says, Gumroad “becomes a thing,”
he will have succeeded in turning all of Facebook and Twitter into a global online marketplace, i.e. in building a billion dollar company. Other businesses require a great deal of domain-specific knowledge, which often entails specialized education. For example, my company,Judicata
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builds radically better legal search and analytics software for lawyers. This requires great engineers, but it also requires great lawyers who deeply understand how the law works. For better or worse—and I actually suspect for worse—one almost invariably needs to go to college and then law school to become a lawyer. At the very least, being in law school affords one a structured opportunity to learn how to think about the law. For some ventures, getting a technical or professional education is unquestionably the right move. For others, college is absolutely the wrong move. More interesting than the drop out vs. not question, I think, is the set of questions that aims at unpacking what a college education really is. To really understand the nexus between education and entrepreneurship, we’d be better off starting there. Tags: misc Educationentrepreneurship
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