I’ve resisted watching HBO’s Silicon Valley for years. Another cynic’s view of what Silly Valley has become in the latest bubble seemed too depressing to watch. And make no mistake, we are in a bubble. Not just private equity — ideology too. Having gone through the dot-com bubble, way too[…] Read On
The first time I was enticed to join a tech startup by some well-known executives and VCs, it didn’t take long for me to figure out that these experts must have been smoking something when they signed up for this gig. I quit after nine months. Sure enough, the company[…] Read On
This actually happened to me today. I’ll do my best to tell it straight, but it was a terrifying experience, so forgive me if it’s a little fragmented. After all, there’s only so much trauma the human mind can take. I’ve grown accustomed to making salads when I’m home for[…] Read On
Your product is your brand. Its value proposition to customers should be at the very core of how, when and what you communicate to the world. Apple, Nike, BMW and Disney have powerful brands because they are leaders in their respective industries, not the other way around. Contrary to popular[…] Read On
Most of us are very good at starting things. We start with good intentions but fail to think and follow through. In my experience, that has a big impact on career, business and financial outcomes. And not in a good way. Along the same lines, we tend to do a[…] Read On
When Amazon Web Services (AWS) lost a $10 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract to rival Microsoft Azure, the ecommerce giant should have just packed it up and called it a day. After all, nobody likes a sore loser. Especially an arrogant one. Case in point: AWS CEO Andy Jassy, who[…] Read On
Just Because You’re Paranoid Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Out to Get You – Anon There’s growing evidence that we are turning college students into paranoid schizophrenics with delusions of persecution. And that can’t be good. A few minutes into a recent talk by noted scholar Heather Mac Donald at Holy[…] Read On