The point of rules and referees isn’t to stop people from winning. It’s to keep the game alive. | Continue reading
Does Musk’s stake in Twitter herald a new direction for the social network, or is it another pointless distraction for the Tesla CEO? | Continue reading
In the 1920s, the public hated cars. So the auto industry fought back — with language. | Continue reading
What my string of adventures in TV have taught me about the medium | Continue reading
Amidst the scams and bubbles, credible scarcity and authenticity will unlock real value in digital markets | Continue reading
Kleptocrats invest in football clubs, luxury apartments, and higher education with few restrictions | Continue reading
Our kids understand it better than we do. And it’s training them for the token economy. | Continue reading
Nimbyism is killing opportunities for younger folks. Here’s how we could fix it. | Continue reading
If your business is producing enemies, at some point those enemies will come for your money. | Continue reading
The stock market correction will fundamentally alter the landscape of tech startups and VCs | Continue reading
A trillion in revenue will require stealing markets from incumbents. | Continue reading
The American dream of homeownership has become a hallucination — in the metaverse | Continue reading
I pulled my podcast from Spotify. Here’s the framework I use to make tough calls. | Continue reading
The line between vision and fraud is only drawn in hindsight | Continue reading
The advertised decentralization of power out of the hands of a few has, in fact, been a re-centralization of power into the hands of fewer | Continue reading
The period following the Covid crisis could be one of the most prosperous in human history | Continue reading
Reviewing the predictions I made for 2021 and making some new ones for the new year | Continue reading
Why Jack Dorsey stepped down as Twitter CEO and renamed his payments company Block | Continue reading
Why Jack Dorsey stepped down as Twitter CEO and renamed his payments company Block | Continue reading
$91.5b per year, doubling every year | Continue reading
The greatest assault on American middle-class prosperity is the relentless, four-decade-long inflation in higher education | Continue reading
The greatest assault on American middle-class prosperity is the relentless, four-decade-long inflation in higher education | Continue reading
Most high profile acquisitions don’t pay off. But the ones that do, pay off bigly | Continue reading
Let’s consider the tools we have available | Continue reading
Taking a closer look at Warby Parker, Rent the Runway, Allbirds, and On | Continue reading
The state of the streaming wars in late 2021 | Continue reading
Digital ad fraud could be a $150 billion business by 2025, which would make it the largest criminal enterprise after the drug trade | Continue reading
Digital ad fraud could be a $150 billion business by 2025, which would make it the largest criminal enterprise after the drug trade | Continue reading
Firms would love to have us believe that society’s biggest problems can be fixed as our stock portfolios explode in value | Continue reading
Helping students catch up may be the pandemic’s most enduring challenge | Continue reading
For all its success, Facebook doesn’t have vertical distribution or much presence in the world of work | Continue reading
The early hype around Clubhouse caused competitors to pounce on its live-audio turf | Continue reading
China is financially connected to the U.S. in ways the USSR never was | Continue reading
Accounting tricks and tech gimmickry don’t matter when the coffers are empty. | Continue reading
Staying in a role builds valuable, company-specific domain knowledge. Leaving often results in a pay day. | Continue reading
A herd of unicorns is at the stable door, looking to trample Wells Fargo and Chase. | Continue reading
Peter Rahal started RxBar out of his mom’s kitchen — then sold it for $600 million. Life on the other side of the entrepreneurial fantasy. | Continue reading
How the billionaire class has taken midlife crises to a new level | Continue reading
Why EV’s are false prophets in the fight for a better world | Continue reading
Why Scott Galloway believes pessimists make better operators | Continue reading
Much like an Etch A Sketch, Covid has presented an opportunity to envision our lives turned upside down, powder redistributed. | Continue reading
I’ve lost a lot of other people’s money. The most stressful times in my life have been when people believed in me and invested tens (if not hundreds) of millions in my company or idea, only to see… | Continue reading
Ending a partnership — personal or corporate — is generally seen as an admission of failure | Continue reading
Founders with a small exit in their first company were much more likely to build a unicorn in their next | Continue reading
Basecamp bosses banned politics at work over a social justice diagram | Continue reading
How the $2 trillion crypto asset class taps into ‘scarcity credibility’ | Continue reading
The notorious co-working giant is the beneficiary of the ongoing remote work revolution | Continue reading
The economic flood gates are about to open wide | Continue reading