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Thoughts on Tech, Finance, and Economics

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Blame competition, not compute, for bad AI coding margins

Bad margins today don’t tell us much about the long-term strength of AI businesses

Lessons from building Valon | Andrew Wang, CEO

How Valon is using AI, why most AI rollups will fail, and why people still underrate moving quickly in startups

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Cameron Porter on incubations, industrial tech investing, and how to save European tech

Episode 1 of my podcast

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How Uber’s AV Strategy Could Fail

Robotaxis, “self-driving as a service,” and the fragility of Uber’s AV partners

Crashing the economy for lower bond yields is a bad idea

A roundup of some unconvincing arguments for tariffs

5 charts on the future of fintech

Trends in stablecoins, card networks, bank branches, and revenue multiples

Why Waymo won't crush Uber anytime soon

Variable demand for ridesharing will make it hard to challenge Uber

Is McKinsey the key to our AI future?

Enterprise adoption, not AI model performance, is the bottleneck to AI progress

How autonomous vehicles will change everything

Speculative predictions on car insurance, real estate, car designs and more

The coming explosion in QA testing

How companies like Ranger are betting on AI to fix a broken industry