The Free Basics program which has become a topic of intense debate thanks to the tweetstorms by Marc Andreessen — is a stroke of genius. The program is called free, it sounds like free, and it is “free”. Yet, it is not truly free — for it comes with many restrictions that limit the usefulness of the service, the freedom […]
Archives for February 2016
The Strong Shall Inherit the Nasdaq
I wrote this post on Feb 3, 2016 — and like clockwork two years later, its timely again. The Dow Jones and Nasdaq are tanking and people are out with stories of imminent end. This too shall pass The unicorn, the billion dollar startup, is finally dead. The same columnists and magazines that turned every startup funding […]