I’ve written quite a bit about ageism in Silicon Valley, but aside from not being able to find a job, getting old isn’t so bad. It’s certainly better than the alternative, as they say. And at 65 we get free healthcare. Woohoo. In case you’re wondering how to tell if[…] Read On
This column originally ran August 4, 2016 on FOXBusiness.com; thought it would be interesting to see how my prognostication was turning out. Back in 2011, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk confessed that he “never really wanted to run companies,” but concluded that he “was better than the CEOs” he hired.[…] Read On
Walking across the border from Hong Kong to Shenzhen, China, in 1991, I found a city transitioning from market town to bustling metropolis. Most of the people were poor, and the technology companies I visited consisted of engineers in warehouses with old metal desks and outdated computers. But you could[…] Read On
Returning home from an international business trip I struck up a conversation with the guy seated next to me. Turns out we were both tech industry execs with a lot in common, except he was older, more experienced and apparently wiser. Toward the end of the flight we somehow got[…] Read On
How can you tell if a company has a good thing going? Easy. If it offers unique products and services that customers value that’s a good sign. And when it loses that edge, that’s a bad sign that oftentimes leads to a “going out of business” sign. The new term[…] Read On
Last year’s business roundtable between President Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau and nine top female executives was arranged by Ivanka Trump. The first daughter has emerged as a champion for women business leaders. The question is, will it help? Despite extraordinary efforts by corporate America to improve gender diversity in[…] Read On
He wasn’t the first to say “Content is King,” but in a remarkably prophetic piece written in 1996, Bill Gates accurately foresaw the online content boom years before Google, WordPress, Facebook and YouTube even existed. And more than a decade before the smartphone revolution began. Gates’ essay may also have[…] Read On