I'm delighted to announce that Geoff Ralston is taking over for me as President of YC. I've known Geoff for almost ten years, he's been a YC partner for eight, and I think he's one of the most thoughtful, helpful, and kind investors in Silicon…
A decade ago, Amazon abruptly deleted copies of George Orwell's 1984 from the Kindles of its American customers. The move instantly evoked the “memory holes” in the novel's totalitarian dystopia, and it inspired about equal measures…
Before you are two shareholder proposals concerning Amazon's face recognition surveillance technology. Your vote on these proposals will help chart the course for the kind of society we'll have to live in, and whether that society will be forced to…
The church I grew up in was so big we called it the Repentagon. It was not a single structure but a thirty-four-million-dollar campus, built in the nineteen-eighties and spread across forty-two acres in a leafy, white neighborhood ten miles west of…
In the series finale of “Game of Thrones,” the killing was minimal, the writing of books maximal, and the primacy of “story” questionable. “There's nothing in the world more powerful than a good story,”…
