Long Read: The Dragnet

Gautam Pemmaraju | 27 minutes

Beyond Gandhi, Nehru, Jinnah or Bose, the British Empire feared one revolutionary. This is the story of how MN Roy was chased around the world.

Snippets

When your network is somewhere between zero and the density or size of network required for escape velocity, your network wants to self destruct constantly.
If you’re not adding new users—either buyers or sellers—your network wants to go to zero. 

- Andrew Chen, Andrew Chen on marketplaces

But my general assumption is that all companies are bad.
The only thing you can attempt to do is build a company that's slightly less bad.

- Tobi Lutke, The Observer Effect: Sriram Krishnan interviews Tobi Lutke