The Ethereum Foundation's Danny Ryan discusses how the Merge will increase security and explains how proof of stake impacts developers.

The Marketplace 100 ranks the largest consumer-facing marketplace startups and analyzes the trends behind the next generation of marketplace giants.

From unleashing creativity to mitigating risk, Ben Stokes of Tiny Projects shares some of the main reasons why developers are building so many side projects.

Sam Lambert is CEO of PlanetScale, a MySQL-compatiable serverless database provider. Prior to joining PlanetScale (then ...

A GPT-3-like AI model for science would accelerate innovation and improve reproducibility. Creating it will require us to unlock scientific publications.

This 101 guide on college ambassador programs for consumer startup covers the what, why, and when, how to get started, incentive structures, metrics, and more.

Developing product thinking is not just for designers and PMs. Anyone in the business of building products or understanding trends can use this framework.

Practical models for builders on how to decentralize web3, from 'full' to 'open' decentralization (including IP), as well as NFTs and tokenization protocols

What if we evaluated America’s cities as technological systems? To really improve them, a new generation of startups must compete with them.

Negative engineering is the time-consuming and sometimes frustrating work that engineers undertake to ensure the success of their primary objectives.

Features and benefits, challenges ahead, and the road to mainstream acceptance and adoption

MongoDB CTO Mark Porter discusses working with cloud providers as frenemies, and building consumer services for Southeast Asia at Grab.

No code, SaaS, APIs have led to faster yet more heterogeneous systems: developers work in rainforests, not planned gardens.

When your back's against the wall, you need a high stakes, focusing goal that instills a sense of urgency and clarity.

The author of Instagram's original ranking algorithm explains how social platforms pick content for users and why sharing more experiments could improve trust.

This excerpt from from Talent, by Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross, focuses on how scouts can be useful for identifying talented entrepreneurs and employees.

Sprig founder and CEO Ryan Glasgow explains why the key to building successful products is understanding your users and what they want.

The way to improve search is not to mimic Google, but instead to build boutique search engines that index, curate, and organize things in new ways.

How startups and smaller entities can take advantage of large foundation models, like GPT-3 and BERT, to kickstart their AI and machine learning efforts.

Resources for those who want to understand, build, and otherwise get involved in DAOs

Consumers pay for what’s scarce. And within the crowded, cheap, content-rich world of online education, what's scarce is community.

The Basecamp and HEY founder discusses the power of short-term thinking, his framework for startup longevity, and the key thing he looks for when hiring remote.

Danny Ryan details the path forward for scalability and explains the possibility of stateless Ethereum, while sharing how the Merge will affect future upgrades.

In a world where software is no longer sold, but rather adopted, community isn't just part of go-to-market; it's a distinct competency: go-to-community.

How DAOs & NFTs enable communities to bring new characters, culture to world

Richard Socher discusses advances in NLP, and how the experience for AI startups has changed since the early days of deep learning.

Isovalent co-founder and Cilium creator Thomas Graf discusses the state of cloud native networking and where the future of enterprise Kubernetes lies.

Technologies such as avatars and digital wallets are unbundling our digital identities and rebundling them in new ways.

Jeremy Howard of fast.ai discusses the impacts of deep learning and AI now being accessible to people without PhDs in those spaces.

Our narrow view of “kidtech”—games and shows, ad infinitum—is a missed opportunity. There’s room for an audio-visual browser that's purpose-built for kids.

The complexity of wildfires – causes, contributing factors, data – leaves a lot of room for snap judgments and no clear answers, so what can we do?

Shared lab space, collaborative projects, DAO-funded research, and other signs of big structural change in this traditionally centralized industry.

To truly augment human intelligence, we need to look beyond prompt-hacking and fine-tuning. Instead we need to design new workflows for powerful AI models.

Players are discovering new ways to monetize, whether by building original game worlds, selling in-game goods on the blockchain, or engaging new streamer tools.

Frameworks, tips, and tactics for the emerging ways to build communities, and how organizational structure and token economics determine the best GTM motions.

Caltech Professor Magda Zernicka-Goetz explains recent progress in building 'synthetic' embryos from stem cells, their applications, and what they can't do.

Sales enablement — the use of people, processes, and tech to improve sales productivity — is key for a well-oiled, agile, and high-performing sales machine.

Daphne Koller explains why some fail the academia-to-biotech transition and identifies what we'll need for AlphaFold-level successes across biology and biotech.

Chainguard's Kim Lewandowski explains why secure software supply chains are all the rage right now, and why open source is a double-edged security sword.

Modern software’s uniformity has fueled a craving for more interesting, personalized, opinionated tools — turning inanimate pixels into something with soul.

Though LatAm leads the world in internet and digital media consumption, its creators still struggle to cash in on their influence. That presents an opportunity.

So what does composability really mean for builders and developers?

The world watched when a container ship blocked the Suez Canal. Amid a frenzy of global trade demand, the world’s shipping infrastructure is starting to break.

The principal innovation of crypto networks is their ability to grow network effects by enabling users to share in the value they create. 

Control over important internet services has shifted from open source to proprietary services operated by big tech. As a result, people got access to technology, but that shift also created serious problems.

The a16z crypto deal partner dives down an AI rabbit hole, ponders web3 applications for streaming, and tracks the Ethereum Merge.

If the goal of go-to-market is value capture, the goal of go-to-community (GTC) is value creation that turns users into advocates. Here's where to focus.

Here's what the tech founder reads, follows, watches, and listens to — in his own words.

Money, art, and collectibles are great first applications for web3. But just as in previous eras, the new internet will be organized in unexpected ways.