The Dollar Shave Club of Everything
Whilst technology has significantly brought costs of production and distribution down, for consumers or businesses the cost of goods we procure has remained as high as ever. But that’s about to change. The systematic dismantling of unit cost economics of existing markets across many industries is now underway.
Purchases: Of Teenagers and Teslas
My half brother, a smart teenager who is already taller than me and usually emerges victorious when competing on the foosball table, happens to be an aspiring engineer who can also hold his own as a researcher and writer (he’s been interning with us for the past two weeks – check MetalMiner on Monday for […]
Why I’d Go Big. And Why You Should Ignore Me, and Most of the Others That Tell You That.
Everything on the web, and in SaaS, these days is about going big. Larry Page at Google I/O wants Google to start doing brave new things that build billion dollar markets. Peter Thiel wants the best of us to skip college and go straight to building the next Pallantir and PayPal, just bigger. Elon Musk […]
Hype-Loop
Elon Musk is an enviable entrepreneur. He resides in the rarified air of a credible tech celebrity and can command the rapt attention of the tech media with little more than a 57 page term paper for something that he, in his next breath, declares he won’t build. Never mind the construction costs, right-of-ways, economic […]
Tesla Lost the Minute Musk Tweeted
I have been watching with curiosity the battle of words between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and the NYTimes. On balance I think Musk miscalculated and has come out on the losing side of the bigger issue he is confronting… complexity. As I drive around I see a surprising number of the Tesla Model S sedans […]
