Revealing— @Matterport's going public, partnerinf with Gores
Lux now joined by outstanding high quality world-class investors: Tiger Global, Senator, Dragoneer, Fidelity, BlackRock + Miller Value🚀 with up to $640M cash in $2.9B deal matterport.com/news/matterpor…
2/ Lux is @Matterport largest shareholder––since leading their seed investment in 2013.
Lux cofounder @peterjhebert has served on the Board since helping guide to INCREDIBLE growth + technological breakthroughs in a giant market...
3/ The @matterport platform turns any physical space into immersive 3D digital twin—
and now has the largest spatial data library (over 150 countries)—in HISTORY.
Over 10 billion sq ft of space + GROWING
homes, office spaces, museums, schools, factories, hospitals, and retail
4/ @Matterport has grown amazingly 📈🚀
-Total revenue grew 87% YoY
-Matterport monetizes its data primarily under a recurring revenue SaaS model and grew its subscriber base by more than 500% in 2020.
A world where
they can *feel* offended but have no right to be protected from feeling offended or feeling uncomfortable if they are insulted for any reason or someone says or does something wrong, ignorant, misinformed, rude or uncivil
2/ A world where
-they can make mistakes and commit errors and be given a chance to correct them and not cancelled
-they can be surrounded + welcoming of diverse people with diverse life experiences + diverse POVs who may also make mistakes + commit errors and BE corrected
3/A world where
-they must COMPETE intellectually, physically, psychologically when there are zero-sum outcomes + lose if they deserve to lose
-they must learn to COOPERATE with people different than themselves with different POVs who they might have to play non zero-sum games w
1/ Having now read thousands of pages across hundreds of articles about the debate of PROGRESS or GREAT STAGNATION
And seeing learned people flip their minds--in both directions--(like Othello chips⚫️⚪️) given persuasive new evidence...
2/ I believe...
there are the contributing elements of "lag" and "mismeasurement" possibly behind the Solow Paradox (paraphrased as tech is everywhere 'cept in productivity)
3/ I believe...
there are salient anecdotes + examples NEAR and FAR (subject respectively to recency bias...and nostalgia for clearly-compounded effects of old technologies)
1/ The BEST thing about GOOD mental models and frameworks is their generalizability.
Are they USEFUL to advance understanding issues and find solutions?
2/ Readinf @slatestarcodex excellent piece on whether psychiatric conditions are clearly distinct CATEGORIES (in the way rabbits are rabbits + humans are humans) or DIMENSIONS (where people fall on spectrum with no clear demarcation line)...
3/ Found it useful in thinking about how we think about RACE, clear categories or spectra: light white to dark black, eye colors, hair textures, origin stories, group identity, family lineage, geography, rights, status, income, victim, pepetrator, justice, injustice...