Archive - Explain Like I'm 5

ELI5 #4: Our API Problem

An attempt at some insights on developer infrastructure -- addressing the problem of inaccessible data through custom connectors.

Sep 10, 2024 • Anant Pai

July 2024

ELI5 #3: What is the digital health formula? A la Sweetgreen

The building blocks necessary to build a digital health (services company), and some musings from the cheap seats about how to do it well.

Jul 18, 2024 • Anant Pai

June 2024

ELI5 #2: Is everything priced wrong (due to climate risk)? (Part 1)

We don't have good ways of measuring climate risk -- I think that we wildly underestimate it. A fuller understanding of climate risk will require more…

Jun 18, 2024 • Anant Pai

ELI5 #1: How will content owners get paid for data used to train AI?

If AI is the latest arms race, data is its ammo. There are a number of ways that AI companies could pay publishers. Here's some speculation about what…

Jun 11, 2024 • Anant Pai

May 2024

ELI5 #0: Hey :)

Hi, I’m Anant, an investor at Revolution. I’m another 20-something conjecturing about tech (views are my own!). Hopefully you’ll find it interesting…

May 26, 2024 • Anant Pai

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