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
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
Marc Andreessen’s 2011 essay “Why Software Is Eating the World” opened our eyes to a growing trend, that tech companies are disrupting age-old industries and creating high-growth markets seemingly out of thin air or, more precisely, out of computer code. The Silicon Valley venture capitalist cited several innovative companies[…] Read On
From Wall Street to Silicon Valley, everybody’s trying to figure out what’s wrong with this year’s crappy unicorn IPO class. Uber, Lyft, Peloton, Slack, Pinterest – they’ve all underperformed post-IPO. WeWork couldn’t even get off the ground with that loony $47 billion valuation, finally ousting CEO Adam Neumann and pulling[…] Read On
“People are dying. They are dying.” – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez With all due respect to Greta Thunberg and AOC, people aren’t dying from climate change, but they are dying from mass stupidity, ironically stemming from their smartphones. She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and[…] Read On
When it comes to names and logos, people get weird. Emotional. They either hate them or love them. Become attached to or can’t stand the sight of them. Rarely are they indifferent about the one thing they should be indifferent about since, for the most part, they make little difference.[…] Read On
What do you think would happen if the interactive web – social media, YouTube, blogs, podcasts, comments, all of it – suddenly disappeared? It would probably be a little disorienting at first, but in the long run, … We’d quit living with our eyes glued to little screens and our[…] Read On