🔮 Web3 go-to-market; VC; chip shock; an exciting new planet++ #359

Hi, I’m Azeem Azhar. I convene Exponential View to help us understand how our societies and political economy will change under the force of rapidly accelerating technologies.

🎙This week on the podcast

I spoke to author and journalist Sebastian Mallaby about a subject close to my heart: venture capital. Sebastian has spent five years researching and writing a brilliant book on this field, The Power Law. We discussed how venture capital has accelerated technological progress, what separates the best VCs from the pack, and why the venture model isn’t going away any time soon (more on that below…).

You can listen to our conversation here or read a full transcript.

The near future

🚧 Clearing the chip blockage  
What caused global chip shortages starting in the middle of 2020 to arise? In a new report, Julia Hess and Jan-Peter Kleinhans point to two colliding demand shocks. The first was, of course, the growing demand for kit as we rapidly switched to homeworking. The other was increased stock…