Episode · a16z Podcast · 2016-08-01
Books mentioned on a16z Podcast: Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
From hardware and hardwires to smartphones and social, technology wants to connect. It's almost a native property of technology and especially software businesses, which is why network effects matter.
Fred Benenson discussed MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE by Herman Melville.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville is an epic American novel that chronicles the obsessive, self-destructive quest of Captain Ahab to hunt down the giant white whale that maimed him.
Discussed“for a moment I thought about the Bible and I was like that's too obvious what's like what's like totally even more inappropriate the movie dick games yeah they came to mind”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
“he's also infamous for kick starting a project to translate Moby Dick entirely into emoji”
Passing Bible
“for a moment I thought about the Bible and I was like that's too obvious what's like what's like totally even more inappropriate the movie dick games yeah they came to mind”
Passing MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
“and this is my favorite part is that it's somehow listed as a translation of Moby Dick so when you look up emoji dick it says all these libraries have it because it's really just saying that like they have a translation”