The Diary
A complete historical timeline of That Was The Week, generated from the remote archive database and flagged where editorial context is available.
296Total Entries
284Editorial Entries
to Apr 11, 2026Date Range
Contents
Year 2026
13 entries • 13 editorial
Apr 11, 2026 · 2026 #12Hands Off Sam Altman!
Apr 4, 2026 · 2026 #11Who Gets to Tell the AI Story?
Mar 28, 2026 · 2026 #10Growing Up?
Mar 20, 2026 · 2026 #9Public Markets Price Outcomes
Mar 14, 2026 · 2026 #8AI: Loved And Hated - Which Is It to Be?
Mar 14, 2026That Was The Week - Apple TV App
Mar 7, 2026 · 2026 #7Missing in Action - Real Leadership
Feb 28, 2026 · 2026 #6Anthropic is Wrong
Feb 21, 2026 · 2026 #5Public Venture Capital - Democratization or Scam?
Feb 14, 2026 · 2026 #4AI Explosion
Feb 7, 2026 · 2026 #3Anthropics Super Bowl Ad is dishonest
Jan 31, 2026 · 2026 #2Growing Up?
Jan 25, 2026 · 2026 #1Whither Europe?
Year 2025
48 entries • 48 editorial
Dec 19, 20252025 And All That: The Path to Abundance
Dec 13, 2025 · 2025 #47Human¹⁰⁰
Dec 6, 2025 · 2025 #46Winner Takes it All? Or, The Great Compression
Nov 29, 2025 · 2025 #45The Year of Intelligence
Nov 23, 2025 · 2025 #44AI, Agents & the New Age of Progress: Work, Poverty & the Future
Nov 14, 2025 · 2025 #43The Manufactured Moral Panic Against AI
Nov 8, 2025 · 2025 #42Is China the New America?
Oct 31, 2025 · 2025 #41Can OpenAI Shape Our Future?
Oct 25, 2025 · 2025 #40What is a Browser? What is a Bubble?
Oct 18, 2025 · 2025 #39Media: Forever Blowing Bubbles?
Oct 12, 2025 · 2025 #38Come to Daddy: OpenAI Wants Your Attention
Oct 3, 2025 · 2025 #37The Great Platform Pivot
Sep 26, 2025 · 2025 #36OpenAI Just Shifted the Interface - And the Power
Sep 22, 2025 · 2025 #35Who's For Free Speech?
Sep 12, 2025 · 2025 #34Optimizing for Change: Why Exuberance is Required
Sep 6, 2025 · 2025 #33What are the Economics of an AI Native Internet?
Aug 30, 2025 · 2025 #32Users, Publishers, and AI: Everybody Wins
Aug 23, 2025 · 2025 #31Who Owns the Front Door to AI?
Aug 16, 2025 · 2025 #30When Your AI Breaks Your Heart
Aug 9, 2025 · 2025 #29AI Native Software and Hardware is Here
Aug 1, 2025 · 2025 #28July Readings ... Continued
Jul 23, 2025 · 2025 #27What I read in July
Jul 5, 2025 · 2025 #26The AI Gold Rush
Jun 28, 2025 · 2025 #25Copyright Can't Save Publishers from AI
Jun 20, 2025 · 2025 #24The Speed of Now
Jun 14, 2025 · 2025 #2320 Years of TechCrunch
Jun 7, 2025 · 2025 #22Abundance And You
May 31, 2025 · 2025 #21We Are Accelerating to Abundance
May 24, 2025 · 2025 #20A Year Just Happened in a Week
May 17, 2025 · 2025 #19What is Truth?
May 9, 2025 · 2025 #18Who's Cheating?
May 2, 2025 · 2025 #17Patterns in the Chaos? Don't be a Victim.
Apr 25, 2025 · 2025 #16Venture Blues
Apr 19, 2025 · 2025 #15Are Google and Meta Screwed?
Apr 12, 2025 · 2025 #14Whiplash
Apr 4, 2025 · 2025 #13Birth of the First Multi Trillion Dollar AI Company
Mar 29, 2025 · 2025 #12AI Gets Into Publishing
Mar 21, 2025 · 2025 #11Reflect
Mar 15, 2025 · 2025 #10Is Apple Intelligent?
Mar 8, 2025 · 2025 #9I Built an App for Teens
Mar 1, 2025 · 2025 #8Civilization: What is it Good For?
Feb 22, 2025 · 2025 #7Unicorns Are Back
Feb 15, 2025 · 2025 #6Vance AI Speech: A Breath of Fresh Air
Feb 8, 2025 · 2025 #5Politics and Economics
Feb 1, 2025 · 2025 #4AI's Sputnik Moment
Jan 25, 2025 · 2025 #3There Are No Oligarchs
Jan 19, 2025 · 2025 #2Blowing in the Wind [2025 Edition]
Dec 31, 2024 · 2025 #1Happy New Year: 2025 Reflections
Year 2024
57 entries • 49 editorial
Dec 21, 2024 · 2024 #46That Was The Year
Dec 13, 2024 · 2024 #45I'm With Musk
Dec 8, 2024 · 2024 #44Sacks Rules
Dec 8, 2024News of the Week
Nov 29, 2024 · 2024 #43Modernization, Regulation and Costs
Nov 28, 2024News of the Week (2024-11-28)
Nov 24, 2024 · 2024 #42Does Substack Deserve the Hate?
Nov 20, 2024Why Private Indexes, Publicly Listed, are set to Replace Fund Investments for Most Family Offices and HNWI's
Nov 16, 2024 · 2024 #41Elon, Silicon Valley and Government
Nov 14, 2024Access is everything
Nov 9, 2024 · 2024 #40Good Morning America
Nov 3, 2024 · 2024 #39Disrupt Edition
Oct 26, 2024 · 2024 #38Agents and Robots
Oct 19, 2024 · 2024 #37AI. Where to Invest?
Oct 17, 2024The social construction of value
Oct 11, 2024 · 2024 #36Open AI is a Multi Trillion Dollar Opportunity
Oct 5, 2024 · 2024 #35AI and Venture Capital
Oct 3, 2024 · 2024 #34Early can be tantamount to being wrong
Sep 30, 2024White Paper: Enhancing Series B Investment Outcomes
Sep 26, 2024 · 2024 #33Can Europe Produce World Class AI Innovation?
Sep 20, 2024 · 2024 #32Individual Freedom and Global Companies
Sep 20, 2024Asset managers are embracing alternatives
Sep 14, 2024 · 2024 #31The False Gods of Optimism and Pessimism
Sep 13, 2024Illiquidity is a feature, not a bug
Sep 7, 2024 · 2024 #30Really?
Sep 3, 2024How to index venture capital
Aug 31, 2024 · 2024 #29Irrational Liability
Aug 23, 2024 · 2024 #28Kids Love AI
Aug 17, 2024 · 2024 #27Is Europe Dying?
Jul 27, 2024 · 2024 #26A Midsummer Night's Dream
Jul 13, 2024 · 2024 #25Summer Hiatus
Jul 10, 2024Indexing VC gathers pace
Jul 7, 2024 · 2024 #24Rise of The Algorithms
Jun 30, 2024 · 2024 #23Is There an AI Bubble?
Jun 22, 2024 · 2024 #22Accelerating to 2027?
Jun 15, 2024 · 2024 #21Checkmate!
Jun 7, 2024 · 2024 #20Dreams and Nightmares
May 31, 2024 · 2024 #19Stand Back, Think Big, Dig Deep
May 24, 2024 · 2024 #18Dear Sam
May 18, 2024 · 2024 #17Eyes, Ears, Hands and Mouth
May 10, 2024 · 2024 #16Hating the Future
May 5, 2024 · 2024 #15Where is the Money?
Apr 27, 2024 · 2024 #14The Robots Are Coming
Apr 5, 2024 · 2024 #13When is a Bubble Not a Bubble?
Mar 29, 2024 · 2024 #12Data Driven Investing
Mar 15, 2024 · 2024 #11DOJ - Shame on Us
Mar 8, 2024 · 2024 #10Incumbents Under Threat
Mar 2, 2024 · 2024 #9The Elephant in the Room
Feb 24, 2024 · 2024 #8Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow
Feb 16, 2024 · 2024 #7And The Oscar Goes to Sora
Feb 9, 2024 · 2024 #6Tucker Carlson and Vladimir Putin
Feb 4, 2024 · 2024 #5Vision Pro is a Hit
Jan 28, 2024Poll - What do you value most?
Jan 26, 2024 · 2024 #4Civility and Civilization
Jan 20, 2024 · 2024 #3Unicorns and Face Masks
Jan 6, 2024 · 2024 #1That Will Be The Year
Jan 6, 2024Unveiling Keith Teare's Journey: Political Activism, Coding, and Tech Investments with AI
Year 2023
50 entries • 50 editorial
Dec 31, 2023 · 2023 #44That Was The Year
Dec 16, 2023 · 2023 #43Baby Please Don't Go
Dec 15, 2023 · 2023 #42No Runway - That Was The Week 2023 #46
Nov 24, 2023 · 2023 #41That Was The Week 2023 #45
Nov 19, 2023 · 2023 #40That Was The Week 2023 #44
Nov 11, 2023 · 2023 #39Changing the World - One GPT at a Time.
Nov 4, 2023 · 2023 #38Guilty
Oct 28, 2023 · 2023 #37Capitulation? Have VCs given up hope?
Oct 21, 2023 · 2023 #36Optimism, Technology and Progress
Oct 14, 2023 · 2023 #35TWTW - Can We Stop a More Brutal World
Oct 13, 2023 · 2023 #34The State of Venture
Oct 7, 2023 · 2023 #33AI or Bust
Sep 28, 2023 · 2023 #32The Bankman Fried's Trial by Media
Sep 24, 2023 · 2023 #31Billions: The Venture Capital Asset Class
Sep 19, 2023 · 2023 #30Why Think Global?
Sep 18, 2023 · 2023 #29Keith Teare on THAT WAS THE WEEK in tech
Sep 10, 2023 · 2023 #28Searching For Money
Sep 1, 2023The Power Law
Aug 26, 2023 · 2023 #27Keith Teare on THAT WAS THE WEEK in tech
Aug 19, 2023 · 2023 #26Keith Teare on THAT WAS THE WEEK in tech
Aug 11, 2023 · 2023 #25Dry Powder?
Aug 5, 2023 · 2023 #24Bonfire of The Unicorns?
Jul 29, 2023 · 2023 #23Never Waste a Good [venture] Crisis
Jul 22, 2023 · 2023 #22Data First Venture is Coming
Jul 15, 2023 · 2023 #21Khan and Gensler Should Be Fired
Jul 8, 2023 · 2023 #20Do You Like My Threads? - That Was The Week 2023 #25
Jul 1, 2023 · 2023 #19Phew, That Was a Week
Jun 23, 2023 · 2023 #18The Venture Wreckage
Jun 16, 2023Hands Off Google
Jun 9, 2023Was I Wrong?
Jun 3, 2023 · 2023 #17The Year of the Mask?
May 26, 2023The Importance of Being Twitter
May 12, 2023UBI and AI Need Each Other
May 6, 2023 · 2023 #16Robots and Humans
Apr 30, 2023 · 2023 #15Shrinking
Apr 29, 2023 · 2023 #14That Was The Week 2023 #14
Apr 15, 2023 · 2023 #13Substack and Twitter
Apr 10, 2023 · 2023 #12Hitting The Bottom?
Apr 4, 2023 · 2023 #11Embrace AI Experimentation
Mar 25, 2023 · 2023 #10Are You a Communist? TikTok CEO Verbally Abused by Congress
Mar 24, 2023 · 2023 #9As The Crisis Deepens
Mar 13, 2023 · 2023 #8Silicon Valley Bank: Latest Developments
Mar 4, 2023 · 2023 #7Venture Apocalypse?
Feb 25, 2023 · 2023 #6Bubbles and AI
Feb 18, 2023 · 2023 #5Live with Restream
Feb 17, 2023"Here's Sydney"
Feb 10, 2023 · 2023 #4AI Can't Be Stopped
Feb 4, 2023 · 2023 #3Born Again: Is Tech Back?
Jan 28, 2023 · 2023 #2Unicorns are Dying
Jan 21, 2023 · 2023 #1The Dawning of a New Era
Year 2022
47 entries • 47 editorial
Dec 10, 2022 · 2022 #46Live with Restream
Dec 10, 2022 · 2022 #45Can Bad AI be Good?
Nov 26, 2022 · 2022 #44The Thanksgiving Issue
Nov 19, 2022 · 2022 #43The Crazy Ones
Nov 12, 2022 · 2022 #42Bank Man Fried
Nov 5, 2022 · 2022 #41The Musk Edition
Oct 29, 2022 · 2022 #40A Tale of Two Platforms
Oct 22, 2022 · 2022 #39The End of Apps and the Rise of the Machines
Oct 7, 2022 · 2022 #38Take a Walk on the Wild Side
Sep 24, 2022 · 2022 #37Khan't Touch That - Regulators on the Rocks
Sep 18, 2022 · 2022 #36Is TikTok Hatred Racist?
Sep 10, 2022 · 2022 #35The Queen
Sep 3, 2022 · 2022 #34China Rising
Aug 27, 2022 · 2022 #33Sunshine on a Cloudy Day
Aug 20, 2022 · 2022 #32Mad or Bad?
Aug 13, 2022 · 2022 #31How Unicorns Are Born
Aug 6, 2022 · 2022 #30The Future of the Newsletter
Jul 30, 2022 · 2022 #29Deep Minds Think Alike
Jul 16, 2022 · 2022 #28Truth is Overrated
Jul 9, 2022 · 2022 #27Stop, Breathe, Think
Jul 2, 2022 · 2022 #26Live Sports - The Next Streaming War
Jun 26, 2022 · 2022 #25Live Long and Prosper
Jun 18, 2022 · 2022 #24Adapt or Die
Jun 11, 2022 · 2022 #23The Private Wealth Secret
Jun 4, 2022 · 2022 #22The Good News, Bad News, Week
May 28, 2022 · 2022 #21The Birth of the New
May 14, 2022 · 2022 #20Death on Two Legs
May 7, 2022 · 2022 #19Markets in Freefall
Apr 23, 2022 · 2022 #18StreamWars
Apr 16, 2022 · 2022 #17Is Free Speech Right Wing?
Apr 9, 2022 · 2022 #16Tweet Tweet: Musk Flys In
Mar 31, 2022 · 2022 #15Susto at the Guild Theatre in Menlo Park on Sunday March 27th.
Mar 28, 2022 · 2022 #14Worldcoin - Andreessen, Khosla and Altman Team Up
Mar 18, 2022Substack and the Future of Content
Mar 12, 2022 · 2022 #13Apple Sucks?
Mar 7, 2022 · 2022 #12ICANN, Ukraine and the Future
Mar 5, 2022 · 2022 #11The Internet in War Time
Feb 27, 2022 · 2022 #10$4 Trillion of Unicorns
Feb 18, 2022 · 2022 #9Uneasy Bedfellows: Seed Investors and Late Stage Venture Capital
Feb 13, 2022 · 2022 #8Our Web3 Future
Feb 5, 2022 · 2022 #7Venture Capital 2022 - Up or Down?
Jan 30, 2022 · 2022 #6Web3 and the future of Everything
Jan 29, 2022 · 2022 #5The Golden Age of Data
Jan 22, 2022 · 2022 #4A Tale of Two Markets: Venture Boom and Wall Street Doom
Jan 15, 2022 · 2022 #3Moxie has Moxie: Will the Real Web3 Please Stand Up?
Jan 7, 2022 · 2022 #2Tech Crunch?
Jan 1, 2022 · 2022 #12021 Review of the Year
Year 2021
48 entries • 44 editorial
Dec 25, 2021 · 2021 #48Web 3 Wars
Dec 18, 2021 · 2021 #47The Future of the World. No, Really
Dec 10, 2021 · 2021 #46Web 3.0
Nov 27, 2021 · 2021 #45The Thanksgiving Issue
Nov 20, 2021 · 2021 #44The Apple Car?
Nov 13, 2021 · 2021 #43The Rise of the Private Dollar
Nov 7, 2021 · 2021 #42Should VC be Public?
Oct 30, 2021 · 2021 #41Nothing to See Here
Oct 23, 2021 · 2021 #40Whatchamacallit? Web 3 & The End of Truth
Oct 16, 2021 · 2021 #39The Web 3 Revolution
Oct 9, 2021 · 2021 #38Growth. What is it Good For?
Oct 2, 2021 · 2021 #37A Global Operating System?
Sep 25, 2021 · 2021 #36The end (or beginning) of start-ups?
Sep 18, 2021 · 2021 #35Venture Capital Deep Dive
Sep 12, 2021 · 2021 #34Did Apple Win? It's Complicated.
Sep 4, 2021 · 2021 #33The App Store War
Aug 28, 2021 · 2021 #32Money is Changing
Aug 21, 2021 · 2021 #31Facebook and Afghanistan: Social Media and Nation States
Aug 14, 2021 · 2021 #30Apple's Very Bad Week
Aug 7, 2021 · 2021 #29Venture Capital 3.0
Jul 24, 2021 · 2021 #28Our Blockchain Future
Jul 17, 2021 · 2021 #27Cash For Creators: It's Happening
Jul 10, 2021 · 2021 #26Startups IPO. Why Not VCs?
Jul 2, 2021 · 2021 #252021 - 199 Unicorns ... so far
Jun 26, 2021 · 2021 #24Regulation and Free Markets - Which is Best?
Jun 19, 2021 · 2021 #23Killing Innovation - Is Big Bad?
Jun 12, 2021 · 2021 #22Mixed Signals
Jun 6, 2021 · 2021 #21What is Happening in Venture Capital?
May 21, 2021 · 2021 #20Finding Unicorns
May 15, 2021 · 2021 #19Venture Capital is Changing ...Again
May 9, 2021 · 2021 #18Don’t Underestimate China
May 8, 2021 · 2021 #17Don't Underestimate China
Apr 30, 2021 · 2021 #16Mobile Kills TV
Apr 23, 2021 · 2021 #15The Blockchain Moment
Apr 17, 2021 · 2021 #14Its coinbase time
Apr 10, 2021 · 2021 #13Is the Creator Economy For Real?
Apr 2, 2021 · 2021 #12Is Clubhouse in Trouble?
Mar 27, 2021 · 2021 #11Do You Believe in Magic?
Mar 20, 2021 · 2021 #10Sam Altman is Super Smart — Who Knew? ;-)
Mar 12, 2021 · 2021 #9What Do We Value? Beeple, Roblox, Coinbase, Bitcoin?
Mar 5, 2021 · 2021 #8WTF are NFTs? You Need to Know.
Feb 27, 2021 · 2021 #7Creators: Your Time Has Come
Feb 21, 2021 · 2021 #6Assets: Does the Rise of Bitcoin Mean the Decline of America?
Feb 13, 2021 · 2021 #5Garbage In, Garbage Out. The Future of the Open Internet
Feb 5, 2021 · 2021 #4Who is in Charge? Tech Elites or the Digital 'Mob'
Jan 30, 2021 · 2021 #3Disruption: Jobs, Cities, Buildings, Wall Street, Publishing, IPOs, Money and even FaceBook
Jan 23, 2021 · 2021 #2Wanted: An Internet Bill of Rights
Jan 16, 2021 · 2021 #1On Liberty - The Future of Rights, Civil Society and Social Media
Year 2020
33 entries • 33 editorial
Dec 12, 2020 · 2020 #31Everybody's Hustling
Dec 5, 2020 · 2020 #30The China Countdown - Tik Tok, Tik Tok
Dec 1, 2020 · 2020 #29That Was The Week #29
Nov 20, 2020 · 2020 #28That Was The Week #28
Nov 14, 2020 · 2020 #27That Was The Week #27
Nov 8, 2020 · 2020 #26Cancel Culture, Facebook and the Valley - A Debate
Oct 30, 2020 · 2020 #25That Was The Week #25
Oct 30, 2020 · 2020 #24That Was The Week #24
Oct 22, 2020 · 2020 #23That Was The Week #23
Oct 16, 2020 · 2020 #22That Was The Week #22
Oct 3, 2020 · 2020 #21ChinAmerica - Two Nations, One World - Our Common Future
Sep 27, 2020 · 2020 #20Snowflake, Sumo and the 3 SPACs. That Was The Week #37
Sep 19, 2020 · 2020 #19Who Agrees With Apple? - That Was The Week #36
Sep 13, 2020 · 2020 #18Apple's War on Facebook, Instagram and Google - That Was The Week #35
Sep 5, 2020 · 2020 #17Two Tribes Go To War: DC vs Silicon Valley- That Was The Week #34
Aug 30, 2020 · 2020 #16Spac Off! Andreessen versus Bill Gurley on IPOs
Aug 25, 2020 · 2020 #15Epic Fail. Apple: Big But Not Bad. That Was The Week #32
Aug 18, 2020 · 2020 #14Everybody's Hustling - That Was The Week #31
Aug 10, 2020 · 2020 #13That Was The Week #30 - The China Countdown - Tik Tok, Tik Tok
Aug 1, 2020 · 2020 #12That Was The Week (Live) #29
Jul 23, 2020 · 2020 #11That Was The Week #28
Jul 17, 2020 · 2020 #10That Was The Week, #27
Jul 11, 2020 · 2020 #9Cancel Culture, Facebook and the Valley - A debate #26
Jul 5, 2020 · 2020 #8That Was The Week - #25
Jun 21, 2020How to Tell Your Startup Story to Investors
Jun 12, 2020#BlackLivesMatter, #BlackFoundersMatter and #BlackInvestorsMatter
May 15, 2020 · 2020 #1Venture Trends #18
2020 #7That Was The Week #24
2020 #6That Was The Week #23
2020 #5That Was The Week #22
2020 #4Venture Trends #21
2020 #3Venture Trends #20
2020 #2Venture Trends #19