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Evan Armstrong

@ItsUrBoyEvan

Reformed venture capitalist and strategist. Now slinging words for a living.

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The Bugman Cometh

My sick, unexplainable desire to buy a face computer

62 Jun 6, 2023 by Evan Armstrong

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The Cost of Greatness

What will be the blood sacrifice on your altar of ambition?

211 Jun 1, 2023 by Evan Armstrong

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Dying Whales and Dying Billionaires

A note about power

127 May 25, 2023 by Evan Armstrong

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Meet Your New Finance Intern: GPT-4

How AI will reshape what finance professionals do

99 May 18, 2023 by Evan Armstrong

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Why Are Republicans Better at Making Money on the Internet?

What consumer tech and media got wrong

70 May 11, 2023 by Evan Armstrong

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7 Reasons Media Is a No-Good, Horrible, Rotten Business That I Love Anyways

Plus a few things that bring me hope

57 May 4, 2023 by Evan Armstrong

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Death of a Flywheel

How Amazon and Berkshire got too big

95 Apr 27, 2023 by Evan Armstrong

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You Probably Shouldn’t Work at a Startup

It’s overrated—both financially and emotionally

119 Apr 20, 2023 by Evan Armstrong

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Steve Jobs’ Legacy for Builders

A book that lit a fire in my soul

118 Apr 13, 2023 by Evan Armstrong

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We Don’t Know Enough About the Pornhub Acquisition

One of the world’s most important websites was sold and nobody cares

227 Apr 6, 2023 by Evan Armstrong

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Tinder Is Way More Important Than You Think

Forget AI, the people want to bone

133 Mar 30, 2023 by Evan Armstrong

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How AI Changes the Media Business

Why community and social network effects will be key to winning the future

71 Mar 23, 2023 by Evan Armstrong

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Technology Is Good Actually

Startups screw up sometimes, but making things cheaper is a moral necessity

76 Mar 16, 2023 by Evan Armstrong

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A Dearth of Secrets, an Excess of Capital: SVB’s Explosion

We may be entering a more ruthless era in tech

90 Mar 13, 2023 by Evan Armstrong

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Recommendation Algorithms Are a Necessary Evil (Sort Of)

AI is about to remake our information ecosystem and it is past time for us to prepare

51 Mar 9, 2023 by Evan Armstrong

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Should I Quit and Start a Franchise?

I’m wondering if I can deep-fry my way out of the apocalypse

78 Mar 2, 2023 by Evan Armstrong

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When Content Creation Goes to Zero

AI is making a world where it costs nothing to produce anything. What happens next?

63 Feb 23, 2023 by Evan Armstrong

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Bada Bing: Why Microsoft Wants Google to Dance

Surely nothing bad will happen with an AI hooked up to the internet

96 Feb 16, 2023 by Evan Armstrong

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The Meditations of Vinyl Jesus

Music producer Rick Rubin explores the creative process

94 Feb 9, 2023 by Evan Armstrong

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AI Looks Like a Bubble

Investors need to take a cold shower

141 Feb 2, 2023 by Evan Armstrong

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How Technology Giants Die

GE, Amazon, and the flywheel of death

93 Jan 26, 2023 by Evan Armstrong

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In Defense of the Unoptimized Life

Give yourself the space to be inspired

348 Jan 12, 2023 by Evan Armstrong

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It Is Always Time to Build

Interest rates do not equal innovation rates

71 Jan 5, 2023 by Evan Armstrong

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Meditations on AI Mecca

A dispatch from a hacker conference in San Francisco

106 Dec 21, 2022 by Evan Armstrong

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Should You Fire This Newsletter?

In which I analyze whether I’m good at my job

99 Dec 15, 2022 by Evan Armstrong