Week 23 - Growth, collaboration, and learning
This week's articles, tweets, and podcasts every founder should check out.
✌🏽Welcome back
Welcome to the 23rd edition of Inside Round by AngelList. Every week, we curate the tweets, podcasts, and articles every founder should check out. Let’s get into it…
Reading list
1/ Who becomes an entrepreneur? — by Mario Gabriele
2/ Parsing the App Layer, Where will the $100B+ of SaaS spend go in the next decade? — by Vivek Ramaswami and Sabrina Wu
3/ The 83B Election — by Fred Wilson
4/ Defensibility & Competition — by Elad Gil
5/ From Bing to Sydney — by Ben Thompson
6/ Update on return to office plans — by Andy Jassy
7/ What is ChatGPT doing and why does it work? — by Stephen Wolfram
Thread of insight
Lenny on growth inflection points
What precedes an inflection in growth?
I researched 20+ products and found a few surprises:
1. The majority of growth inflections came after a specific product improvement
2. Many growth inflections came from an unexpected external event, without the product changing at all...
Listen and learn
Dan Rose, chairman of Coatue Ventures, on his experience working with iconic companies and founders.