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Boyle: Aerospace and defense startups consolidate finite talent into early holding companies
“These companies usually become holding companies pretty quickly and attract all of the talent. There's finite talent around things like aerospace. There's finite talent around things like defense. So you don't see as many competitors. And as I said, they are h…”
Boyle: Silicon Valley is positive-sum, while Washington D.C. is zero-sum
“Silicon Valley is the most peculiar place in the world, because it's the only place where incentives are aligned with that sort of positive sum mentality. Whereas in places like DC, no one ever turns down talking to the press because it's information trading. …”
Boyle: Venture capitalists and journalists both hunt fringe internet shifts
“The sort of similarity of what I saw in my colleagues and what I did is it's like trying to get at the forefront of cultural shifts, even if you don't know what they mean, just trying to see, okay, are these like these weird movements that are happening in soc…”
Boyle: Individual journalists are more powerful than legacy media institutions
“The kind of biggest trend in media, and I can talk about another one of our investments, Substack, which I think has sort of benefited from this trend, is that people are now brands. They are identities. And the individual journalist is ultimately more powerfu…”