Episode · a16z Podcast · 2016-05-30
Books mentioned on a16z Podcast: Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
Everything old is new again when it comes to startup ideas and how technology innovation happens. But practically, how does that apply to starting and/or working at startups — especially since the default state of every company is “dying in obscurity”?
Balaji Srinivasan recommended The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and others, and discussed The Twilight of Sovereignty by Walter B. Wriston.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Sovereign Individual
The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg is a visionary late-twentieth-century book that anticipates the decline of the nation-state and the rise of decentralized digital economies, remote work, and cryptocurrencies.
Recommended“there's this book the sovereign individual it came out in the late 90s it's the most prescient thing in the world most bestsellers you can take the 300 pages and compact them into like a one-page summary”
Where to get it
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The Twilight of Sovereignty
Discussed“so I've been the kicker be you know that book ripped off another book an order boy was that older book called the twilight of sovereignty interesting I mean she was written by a guy named Walter Wriston founder of Citibank”
Where to get it
