Clyde Lawrence from @lawrencetheband on why the music industry is broken, and what led him to testify before the Senate:

"The job of making sure we are paid the correct amount is a full-time job" Clyde Lawrence from @lawrencetheband on why he does all the band's finances himself:

Clyde Lawrence from @lawrencetheband on AI's impact on the music industry:

Matthew Prince (@eastdakota), co-founder and CEO of @Cloudflare, on why he thinks we might be in a golden age of content creation:

"Customer zero for everything we do is us" Another highlight from my conversation with Matthew Prince (@eastdakota), co-founder and CEO of @Cloudflare:

Whoever has the lowest cost to serve customers always wins. How do you bring those costs down? You solve really hard problems on the internet. Matthew Prince (@eastdakota), co-founder and CEO of @Cloudflare:

Matthew Prince (@eastdakota), co-founder and CEO of @Cloudflare, on why web traffic is a bad proxy for value, and why Google might be the reason we got here:

Matthew Prince recalls one of our first meetings after we invested in Cloudflare’s Series C -- and a comment from Brad that stuck with him:

I spoke w/ @cloudflare.social co-founder & CEO Matthew Prince ( @eastdakota.com) for the latest ep of the Slow Hunch podcast. Since 2010, Matthew and his team have built Cloudflare into one of the most important companies on the internet: powering and protecting vast portions of global traffic.

Alex Komoroske (@komorama.bsky.social) on why we don't have a good solution against prompt injection:

Alex Komoroske (@komorama.bsky.social) on why products get worse as they scale:

Alex Komoroske (@komorama.bsky.social) on how biology, culture, and technology (including the transformer architecture) are all driven by the same emergent process: evolution.

Most systems are convex - they're fundamentally unstable, and decohere over time. Exceptional ones are concave - they self-correct and pull back to the right outcome. Here's Alex Komoroske (@komorama.bsky.social) on spotting the difference, and why it matters:

I had a blast talking with @nickgrossman.xyz about my "slow hunch" about the power of emergence www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6fB...

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I spoke w/ Alex Komoroske (@komorama.bsky.social) for the latest ep of The Slow Hunch. Alex is the co-founder & CEO of Common Tools. Before that he spent a decade at Google (working on the Chrome web platform and Search) and led corporate strategy at Stripe.

During the Gensler era, Washington went from curious about crypto… to not curious at all. Here's @ammori (chief legal officer @uniswap at the time) on how "crypto" became deeply political:

I spoke w/ MC Lader & Marvin Ammori for the latest episode of The Slow Hunch. They spent 4 years together building Uniswap - scaling it from a tiny team into one of the most important companies in DeFi. MC served as president + coo. Marvin was chief legal officer.

The interesting challenge with crypto primitives is that they are either loved or hated. Especially if you're building for consumers. Here's @dwr and @varunsrin on how they think about these primitives while building @farcaster_xyz:

One strongly held belief that @dwr has changed his mind on while building @farcaster_xyz:

Why @dwr and @varunsrin made an explicit choice to not lean into politics with @farcaster_xyz:

.@dwr and @varunsrin on how they launched @farcaster_xyz and got their first few users:

I spoke w/ Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan, the co-founders of Farcaster, for the latest episode of the slow hunch. Dan and Varun want to rebuild social from the ground up -- as open, programmable, and credibly neutral protocols.

It's always fun talking to Ben Leventhal because he has the best stories about the restaurant scene in NYC. He's been at this for 20+ years and has seen it all. Here's one from back when he was building Eater:

I spoke with Ben Leventhal for the latest ep of the slow hunch. Ben’s built Eater, Resy, and now Blackbird -- all anchored in one belief: restaurants are universally loved but fundamentally broken businesses -- and that there must be a better way. Hope you enjoy!

I spoke w/ Juan Benet for the latest ep of the slow hunch. Juan is best known for creating IPFS and Filecoin—two foundational technologies in the decentralized web.

I still find it miraculous that the internet works on airplanes

Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team on it's founding story:

In the latest ep of the slow hunch podcast, I spoke w/ @jay.bsky.team, CEO of @bsky.app. Originally conceived as an initiative within Twitter by Jack Dorsey, Bluesky was supposed to transform Twitter from a closed platform to an open protocol-based network.

Just updated my profile w custom domain name, so now I am @nickgrossman.xyz on Bluesky which I like A LOT!

Hello, world. Excited to be here :-)