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John Komkov @johnkomkov

Founder @ Fathom. Previously VC at @lightspeedvp and @AustinVentures, tech banking at @MorganStanley & economist at @WhiteHouse. Double-dip at @Stanford.

Joined January 2016
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Let us harmonize over avocado toast, minimalist furniture and reclaimed wood... theverge.com/2016/8/3/123251…

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5 out of the 5 largest US companies by market cap are now tech -- thereformedbroker.com/2016/0…

A Great Point of Pride for American Business

Exxon Mobil was pushed into the number six spot as Facebook overtook it

thereformedbroker.com
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We're all just on the bad end of Roko's basilisk I guess ;-) x.com/abatalion/status/75637…

Aaron Batalion@abatalion
22 Jul 2016
Everyone should google “simulation theory”. I’m slightly more convinced of it tonight, b/c this one is not going well. Glad there are more.
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*Meanwhile in Seattle: Two-pizza team meeting in progress to spin up the reactionary BWaaS team* x.com/peterjhebert/status/75…

Peter Hebert
@peterjhebert
20 Jul 2016
Replying to @semil
cmon, no brainer BWaaS would take off
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Probably best to keep me left wing... I'm more one-footed than Arjen Robben. x.com/matt_slotnick/status/7…

Matt Slotnick
@matt_slotnick
20 Jul 2016
Replying to @ataussig @lightspeedvp @wakohler @jvrionis
@jmelul need to bring @johnkomkov along as a center back
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The world of Nozickian experience machines... On the horizon and approaching quickly -- bfi.uchicago.edu/news/schola…
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Decomposing narrowing global term spreads...Falling LT rates overpowering rising ST rates -- econbrowser.com/archives/201…
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Great point-in-time overview of serverless with a fair treatment of drawbacks yet to be solved (e.g. local state) -- martinfowler.com/articles/se…

Serverless Architectures

Serverless architectures replace a managed server with a collection of third party services and FaaS

martinfowler.com
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"Bot thots"... Interested to see how ads adapt to hugely reduced slotting inventory & black-box impact on search --oreilly.com/ideas/bot-thots

Bot thots

The world of conversational interfaces is very young. Here are some early questions that it’s working out.

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Quality of documentation... The hidden factor underlying much of the success (or failure) of any given OSS project. x.com/joemccann/status/75476…

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@joemccann
17 Jul 2016
The @kubernetesio docs are quite good and the tutorials are _actually_ useful. Nice work k8s team. kubernetes.io/docs/
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96% of genome studies based on people of Euro descent (...Haplogroupthink) -- ted.com/talks/keolu_fox_why_…

Why genetic research must be more diverse

Ninety-six percent of genome studies are based on people of European descent. The rest of the world is virtually unrepresented -- and this is dangerous, says geneticist and TED Fellow Keolu Fox,...

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I'm always a fan of the understated "macaw on the shoulder"... Like a subtle epaulet that periodically chimes in... x.com/joemccann/status/75328…

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@joemccann
13 Jul 2016
24 minutes til @NodeSource Board meeting and I'm still deciding on which animal to wheel in.
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When MMUs wore skirts and hose... x.com/JasonWardmc/status/752…

Jason ward@JasonWardmc
12 Jul 2016
This is what a TB of storage looked like 70 years ago
Human vs. machine money, UBI and grappling with the ultimatum of unlimited human wants -- oreilly.com/ideas/machine-mo…
Reorienting from a world (and attending socioeconomic models) that until now have been defined by capital scarcity - avc.com/2016/07/zero-and-neg…

Zero And Negative Interest Rates - AVC

Larry Summers has a post in the Washington Post about the incredibly low interest rate environment we are witnessing right now.When you consider the effects (slim as they are) of inflation, there are...

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Succession Planning: The Biggest Problem Facing VC ("Founders Capital" concept is an intriguing remedy...) -- bit.ly/29GuXWy
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Aaron Batalion@abatalion
12 Jul 2016
I just published “A New High Bar for AR — The Post Pokemon GO Era” medium.com/p/a-new-high-bar-…

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"“If you address a mkt that really wants your product you can screw up everything still succeed." h/t @arachleff x.com/jvrionis/status/751549…

John Vrionis@jvrionis
8 Jul 2016
I get amped when founders start distinguishing between those "cool I'm interested" prospects vs the "I'm dying over here" situations.
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Time to diversify yo bonds x.com/katie_martin_fx/status…

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Field study across 14M Candy Crush players shows unorthodox price discrimination responses to volume discounts -- pnas.org/content/113/27/7323…
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