John Thornhill
Innovation Editor at Financial Times
Host at Tech Tonic
Innovation editor and tech columnist @FinancialTimes. Founder of @Siftedeu. Ex-deputy editor, Moscow correspondent etc
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5 days ago |
sifted.eu | John Thornhill
One of the tropes of our times is that legislation kills innovation. But occasionally it can enable it too. One of the best examples is the Employee Retirement Income Security Act adopted in the US by 1974. The act may sound excruciatingly dull but it is no exaggeration to say it was foundational in creating the US venture capital industry that super-charged the rise of Apple, Google, Facebook and many more.
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1 week ago |
ft.com | John Thornhill
There is no doubting the phenomenal impact that venture capital has had on the US — and global — economy over the past few decades.
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1 week ago |
businesstimes.com.sg | John Thornhill
LIES are not the greatest enemy of the truth, according to the philosopher Harry Frankfurt. Bulls**t is worse. As he explained in his classic essay On Bulls**t (1986), a liar and a truth teller are playing the same game, just on opposite sides. Each responds to facts as they understand them, and either accepts or rejects the authority of truth. But a bulls**tter ignores these demands altogether. "He does not reject the authority of truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it.
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1 week ago |
sifted.eu | John Thornhill
Arthur Rock, one of the legendary pioneers of the US VC industry, believed in investing in people. He wore out a lot of shoe leather finding founders who had “fire in their belly” and uncommon intelligence. “I’m not enough of a technologist to be able to understand what most of these entrepreneurs are about technically. And the way I went about it was to spend a lot of time with these would-be entrepreneurs,” he told a Californian audience at the Computer History Museum in 2007.
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2 weeks ago |
businessandamerica.com | John Thornhill
Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Lies are not the greatest enemy of the truth, according to the philosopher Harry Frankfurt. Bullshit is worse. As he explained in his classic essay On Bullshit (1986), a liar and a truth teller are playing the same game, just on opposite sides. Each responds to facts as they understand them and either accepts or rejects the authority of truth.
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