A reminder for new readers. That Was The Week collects the best writing on critical issues in tech, startups, and venture capital. I select the articles because they are of interest. The selections often include things I disagree with. The articles are only snippets. Click on the headline to go to the original. I express my point of view in the editorial and the weekly video below.

This Week’s Video and Podcast:

Content this week from : @paulg, @ergestx , @hhhypergrowth, @micsolana, @morgan_sung, @adhutchinson, @alishmalik1, @benedictevans, @netgarden, @kyle_l_wiggers, @tim, @carta, @kateparknews,

• Editorial: 

• Essays of the Week

  • How to Do Great Work Paul Graham

  • How Analytics Wins - Ergest Xheblati

  • The Modern Data Stack - Muji

• Twitter and Threads

  • Twitter's Final Boss: Zuckerberg Wages War

  • You can’t post ass, Threads is doomed

  • Meta’s New Threads App Reaches 30 Million Users in Less Than a Day

  • Twitter threatens to sue Meta over its new Threads app

• Video of the Week

  • Vinod Khosla - The Trillion $ AI Opportunity

• AI of the Week

  • AI and the automation of work - Benedict Evans

  • Why Generative AI is such a "Nuclear" Force

  • OpenAI makes GPT-4 generally available

  • Artificial Intelligence firms flock to SF, “AI capital of the world”

• News Of the Week

  • Nutrition, sleep and mental health advice offered to tech founders at risk of burnout

  • First Cut — State of Private Markets: Q2 2023

  • VC Exit Value Sags to Lowest Level Since the GFC

  • US venture capital spending drops sharply in 2Q

  • Unicorns face mass extinction as funding plummets

  • Khan Rewrites the Merger Rulebook

• Startup of the Week

  • SoftBank backs Japanese robotics startup Telexistence in $170M funding round

• Thread weet of the Week

  • Bluesky, Twitter, Threads and Mastadon as clothing styles

Mark Zuckerberg has the demeanor of a naughty schoolboy. He brazenly misbehaves and yet somehow insists he is playing fair.

Threads, let’s be honest, is a very poor Twitter clone. It looks a bit like Twitter, smells like Twitter, and even feels a bit like Twitter. And that is intended. It’s a minimum viable Twitter or an MVT.

Mark is a copycat and a fibber