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AdHawk is announcing that it has acquired one of its competitors, Y Combinator-backed Automate Ads. Even if you weren’t a customer, Automate Ads may sound familiar because it was previously known as Kuhcoon, a social advertising startup co-founded by Andrew Torba, who has since been in the news for getting banned from the YC alumni network and for his social network Gab.ai, which has… Read More
Sramana Mitra: What are the use cases? Where are you applying those capabilities to? Doug Randall: There’re a couple of use cases. The big one that I like to think of is changing a narrative. Let me...
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Thanks to the Internet, you can order regular deliveries of everything from clothing to razors to geeky memorabilia. With Bespoke Post, you’re not just limited to one type of products — it ships its customer “box of awesome” that could be focused on style, travel, alcohol or something else entirely.Co-founder and CEO Rishi Prabhu explained that the goal is to curate… Read More
Last night Amy and I hosted an event at our house for the ACLU and Earthjustice, two organizations we are significant supporters of. If you told me 20 years ago that Iâd be spending a lot of my philanthropic energy supporting lawyers, I would have aggressively rejected the notion. But if you had described what is going on in the US right now, I would have also aggressively rejected the notion.
Since the election, Amy has had a great tagline for me.
Action is the antidote.
Sheâs amazing and the energy she puts behind this is unwavering. Iâm extremely fortunate to have her as my life partner â it buoys me up regularly, especially around things that I might otherwise just ignore.
Last nightâs event was great. We heard from David Cole (the ACLU Legal Director) and Patrice Simms (the Earthjustice VP of Litigation). Like me, they are each long-term optimists so their perspective is not just about tomorrow (although much of their focus is on today and tomorrow).
In the middle of the discussion. David mentioned a quote that he attributed to Cornel West and Roberto Unger from their 1998 book titled The Future of American Progressivism. The quote, which is the title of this post, is âHope is the consequence of action.â I believe, but am not certain, that it comes from this passage:
âChange requires neither saintliness nor genius. What it does require is the conviction of the incomparable value of life. Nothing should matter more to us than the attempt to grasp our life while we have it, and to awaken from the slumber of routine, of compromise and prostration, so that we may die only once. Hope is not the condition or cause of action. Hope is the consequence of action. And those who fail in hope should act, practically or conceptually, so that they may hope.â
David deconstructed this to explain that action doesnât come from hope, but hope comes from action. Chew on that for a bit â itâs important in every context, not just politics. Apply it to any situation â work or personal; exogenous or endogenous; positive or negative. Take action, which will generate hope, rather than use your hope to generate action.
When I think about my life and my work, it applies. I take action all the time, and thatâs what creates hope and makes me optimistic.
If you are inspired by this, Iâll leave you with a recent Cornel West talk at the most recent Harvard Divinity Schoolâs Convocation address.
Also published on Medium.
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