Gary Valan
Sep 8, 2018 · 1 min read

Chamath, its been years since your days at AOL and our deal…I think you may be on the right track, “ Instead, I now think it’s time to see if a model of proactive capitalism accelerated by technology can compete with and eventually overtake the existing model of reactive capitalism”

“Be more focused, more audacious and invest more than ever in engineering, product, data science and portfolio operations to give entrepreneurs the tools and services that can help them win.”

I don’t know about “repeatable,” however and I don’t know how you are going to navigate the tech world in the “age of the big five.” Maybe disrupt them? start with Amazon, now that would be something. You might need to fund a hundred starving “piranhas” to take them on…

Good luck, I have not been following you much after AOL but please manage a “win win” parting of the ways with partners who think different, bloodletting may come back to bite.

Gary Valan

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