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Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz · 11/02/2026

Clyde Lawrence from @lawrencetheband on why the music industry is broken, and what led him to testify before the Senate:

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Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz · 09/02/2026

"The job of making sure we are paid the correct amount is a full-time job" Clyde Lawrence from @lawrencetheband on why he does all the band's finances himself:

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Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz · 06/02/2026

Clyde Lawrence from @lawrencetheband on AI's impact on the music industry:

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Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz · 07/10/2025

Matthew Prince (@eastdakota), co-founder and CEO of @Cloudflare, on why he thinks we might be in a golden age of content creation:

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Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz · 03/10/2025

"Customer zero for everything we do is us" Another highlight from my conversation with Matthew Prince (@eastdakota), co-founder and CEO of @Cloudflare:

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Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz · 01/10/2025

Whoever has the lowest cost to serve customers always wins. How do you bring those costs down? You solve really hard problems on the internet. Matthew Prince (@eastdakota), co-founder and CEO of @Cloudflare:

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Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz · 29/09/2025

Matthew Prince (@eastdakota), co-founder and CEO of @Cloudflare, on why web traffic is a bad proxy for value, and why Google might be the reason we got here:

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Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz · 26/09/2025

Matthew Prince recalls one of our first meetings after we invested in Cloudflare’s Series C -- and a comment from Brad that stuck with him:

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Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz · 24/09/2025

We covered: - how he met co-founders Michelle Zatlyn and Lee Holloway - the early experiments and risks that shaped Cloudflare - stories from the company’s pre-IPO days - the decision to make encryption free - how their infra ended up running 2 of the internet’s 13 root servers

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Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz · 24/09/2025

I’ve known Matthew since USV’s investment in Cloudflare’s Series C back in 2013, and it was really fun tracing his slow hunch, right from those early days.

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Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz · 24/09/2025

I spoke w/ @cloudflare.social co-founder & CEO Matthew Prince ( @eastdakota.com) for the latest ep of the Slow Hunch podcast. Since 2010, Matthew and his team have built Cloudflare into one of the most important companies on the internet: powering and protecting vast portions of global traffic.

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Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz · 19/09/2025

Alex Komoroske (@komorama.bsky.social) on why we don't have a good solution against prompt injection:

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Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz · 17/09/2025

Alex Komoroske (@komorama.bsky.social) on why products get worse as they scale:

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Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz · 15/09/2025

Alex Komoroske (@komorama.bsky.social) on how biology, culture, and technology (including the transformer architecture) are all driven by the same emergent process: evolution.

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Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz · 12/09/2025

Most systems are convex - they're fundamentally unstable, and decohere over time. Exceptional ones are concave - they self-correct and pull back to the right outcome. Here's Alex Komoroske (@komorama.bsky.social) on spotting the difference, and why it matters:

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Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I had a blast talking with @nickgrossman.xyz about my "slow hunch" about the power of emergence www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6fB...

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Alex Komoroske (Common Tools)

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Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz · 11/09/2025

Our conversation was centered around the concept of emergence: why the most durable systems grow from the bottom up, and what that means for product design, org culture, and the future of technology - especially AI.

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Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz · 11/09/2025

I spoke w/ Alex Komoroske (@komorama.bsky.social) for the latest ep of The Slow Hunch. Alex is the co-founder & CEO of Common Tools. Before that he spent a decade at Google (working on the Chrome web platform and Search) and led corporate strategy at Stripe.

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Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz · 02/09/2025

During the Gensler era, Washington went from curious about crypto… to not curious at all. Here's @ammori (chief legal officer @uniswap at the time) on how "crypto" became deeply political:

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Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz · 27/08/2025

Those 4 years also happened to be some of the most testing for crypto, with intense policy headwinds and SEC scrutiny during the Gensler era. We talked about what it took to build through that period, and why they think stablecoins & open protocols could be the next rails for global finance.

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Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz · 27/08/2025

I spoke w/ MC Lader & Marvin Ammori for the latest episode of The Slow Hunch. They spent 4 years together building Uniswap - scaling it from a tiny team into one of the most important companies in DeFi. MC served as president + coo. Marvin was chief legal officer.

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Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz · 15/08/2025

The interesting challenge with crypto primitives is that they are either loved or hated. Especially if you're building for consumers. Here's @dwr and @varunsrin on how they think about these primitives while building @farcaster_xyz:

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Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz · 13/08/2025

One strongly held belief that @dwr has changed his mind on while building @farcaster_xyz:

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Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz · 11/08/2025

Why @dwr and @varunsrin made an explicit choice to not lean into politics with @farcaster_xyz:

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Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz · 08/08/2025

.@dwr and @varunsrin on how they launched @farcaster_xyz and got their first few users:

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Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz · 06/08/2025

We talked about: - The genesis and evolution of farcaster - What they got wrong early on - Why real user growth + sufficient decentralization is the right balance - How crypto enables new interaction primitives - And why Farcaster’s edge isn’t ideology--it’s programmability. Hope you enjoy!

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Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz · 06/08/2025

I spoke w/ Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan, the co-founders of Farcaster, for the latest episode of the slow hunch. Dan and Varun want to rebuild social from the ground up -- as open, programmable, and credibly neutral protocols.

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Nick Grossman @nickgrossman.xyz · 11/07/2025

Links to the full conversation below: Spotify - open.spotify.com/episode/3vb... Apple Podcasts - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/... YouTube - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgr...

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Ben Leventhal (Founder & CEO, Blackbird)

In this episode of The Slow Hunch, I spoke with Ben Leventhal, the founder and CEO of Blackbird. Ben has spent the past two decades reimagining the restauran...

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