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I was catching up on a bunch of reading on the web from last week and came across a post by Lars Dalgaard titled Thoughts on Building Weatherproof Companies . I don’t know Lars, but know of him as the founder/CEO of SuccessFactors and now a partner at A16Z, and was curious after recently reading a Forbes article about Zenefits a few weeks ago titled ‘A Lot Of Things Went Wrong’: Lars Dalgaard On Zenefits Scandal . ...

Last week I participated in a podcast hosted by A16Z titled How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe . I got to talk with AnnaLee Saxenian , the Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Innovation . Her book, Regional Advantage , had a huge impact from on my thinking around Startup Communities . From a 2010 blog post of mine about a bunch of books that I had read on a week off the grid . ...