The Dream of Ara: Inside the Rise and Fall of the World’s Most Revolutionary Phone

After generating incredible buzz among designers and gadget geeks, Project Ara — Google’s groundbreaking modular smartphone — was suspended in 2016, concluding a three-year, bang-to-whimper arc.

Source: VentureBeat
Published: Jan 10, 2017
Length: 18 minutes (4,515 words)

Mark Zuckerberg on how to build hacker culture inside a company

For the first two years, the only advice he gave me was don’t mess it up. The YCombinator motto is build something that people want. We were never that great at building a company. Now we’ve built this sort of hacker culture. Early on, we were clueless. All of this came from having users and serving them well and growing at a sustainable rate.

Source: VentureBeat
Published: Oct 24, 2009
Length: 21 minutes (5,294 words)