🏢 🚙 🤖 #35: some holiday reading and one quick ask

A shorter edition this week due to the holidays - my one ask is that you help improve the newsletter by filling out this 1 minute subscriber survey <<

To not leave you completely empty handed, I’ve included some links to interesting content I’ve enjoyed over the last few days:

How the Internet Happened - this a16z podcast is a discussion with Chris Dixon and Brian McCullough on the history and evolution of networked computing

Dr. Elon & Mr. Musk - A great, long read by Wired, taking a look at the last year of production toils Tesla and Elon Musk have been facing

Juul in the e-smoking crown - TechCrunch’s Josh Constine looks at whether Juul is really making people quit smoking (spoiler alert: it’s doing the opposite) and it’s new $38bn valuation

Fortnite is 2018’s most important social network - The Verge look at the phenomenon that is Fortnite and how this game is solving the real world problem of decreasing real world connection

Zoox’s self driving taxis - Zoox has become the first company to be granted a permit in California to operate self-driving taxis for public passengers

Selling a startup to P&G - Tristan Walker founder of newly acquire Walker & Company talks about selling his company to Procter & Gamble