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The Public Policy Implications of Artificial Intelligence
Jack Clark and I are both lapsed technology journalists, and he writes one of my favorite new newsletters of this year, Import…
How A Rust Belt Native and Silicon Valley Technologist Is Re-Thinking American Manufacturing
Nick Pinkston grew up in rural Pennsylvania in a family that has spent more than three generations in the manufacturing industry.

Why Initialized Invested In WorkRamp & The Future of Employee Training
Work is changing a lot these days, and great software remains at the heart of that.
Initializing Initialized Capital…
Welcome to Initialized Capital.
Fascism and The Historical Irony of Facebook’s “Fake News” Problem
Fred Turner is a Stanford-based historian of 20th century media, who chronicled the emergence of what became the Internet from the ideals…

Flexport CEO: The corporation is a relic of a bygone military era
One of the things we’ll be doing at on Initialized Capital’s blog is checking in with portfolio founders and sharing tactical advice…

HR Incentives and Unintended Effects on Hiring Engineers
When Harjeet Taggar founded Triplebyte a year and a half ago, he wanted to take lessons from evaluating thousands of startups as…