Steve Jobs shares an important lesson for anyone to realize you can change the world and life around you and make it better for all.
At the time (1994), Steve was at NeXT, which he had co-founded after leaving Apple years earlier.
Apple would later acquire NeXT for $429 million and 1.5 million shares of Apple stock.
Steve eventually became CEO again, revitalized Apple with products that changed the world, including the iPhone.
He passed away in 2011.
- - - Podium is a venture fund across sports and entertainment, based in Silicon Valley.
In case you hadn't noticed, Facebook has a market cap of one trillion dollars at the time of this post (September 2021).
It wasn't that long ago a company worth a trillion dollars seemed crazy, but now we have multiple companies with Apple at the top.
Back in 2004, Mark Zuckerberg was asked to explain what The Facebook is (the original name) and how big it could get.
It's an important lesson for startups and investors...for most situations, you can estimate the existing market, but when you have true product market fit, you may actually expand the market to sizes you didn't even expect.
- - - Podium is a venture fund across sports and entertainment, based in Silicon Valley.
An inside look at the Ken Burns documentary on Muhammad Ali, the greatest of all time in sports and one of the world's most impactful figures in modern history.
PodiumVC's founding partner Akif Malik recently joined Silicon Valley-based success coach Raheel Bodla to share how sports is changing the game for technology and venture capital.
In this discussion (September 2021), Akif shares his journey into sports, tech and VC as well why the intersection of sports + tech is booming.
Thanks to Paklaunch, a community of over 10,000 founders, investors and professionals in the tech and startup ecosystem, for hosting.
Seattle-based Wyze, which many know about from their popular smart cameras and other smart devices, went into the pandemic like everyone else with challenges to survive, but in their case, there were some additional factors being a hardware device company from global supply chain to shipping.
The startup was in the midst of funding round when the world hit pause, including investors.
At one point, they had only a couple months of cash left.
Wyze co-founders Yun Zhang, Dongsheng Song and Dave Crosby adjusted to the circumstances, introduced a new CamPlus service and turned things around with interim funding rounds.
And, now they just announced a $100M Series B round.
Congrats to the Wyze team, we're excited to see your innovations continue and thanks for sharing your story for others to learn from.
- - - Podium is a venture fund across sports and entertainment, based in Silicon Valley.
Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland are joined by tech pioneer Marc Andreessen.
Has the internet been the most important force in modern history?
In part one of this two part series they look at how the internet developed out of military technology, whether early developers knew they were changing the world, and why business initially built a ‘wall of skepticism’ around the possibilities of the World Wide Web.
In Part 2 below, the rise of social media is the central subject, including whether social media is the principal force behind an increase in populist politics.
The ‘Americanisation’ of culture plus Marc’s theory on why software is the closest thing to real life magic also feature.
- - - Podium is a venture fund across sports and entertainment, based in Silicon Valley.