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Since I’ve Been Gone: Summer 2022

September 16, 2022M.C.Management

Ah, how blissful to take the summer off from writing. Was it a quiet summer? Oh noo no no. We moved! Out of the Bay to Boston. Took some vacation. Got Covid on vacation. Had to put my head down and do a fair amount of work too. So yeah, like many of you I’m limping back into the swing of things.

You may have noticed the temperature has risen…and I’m not talking about the weather. All across the tech ecosystem the heat is on with teams “pushing harder” amid headwinds of slumping growth, plunging valuations, and an escalating sense of impending doom.

What else did I miss?

Week 2, October 21 – Weekly Wrap Up

October 17, 2021October 19, 2021M.C.Weekly Wrap Ups

1.) Coinbase Enters NFT Ring 2.) GitLab’s Strong Debut 3.) LinkedIn Returns West 4.) Supply Chains Are Stuck 1.) Coinbase Enters NFT Ring: after the explosive revenue OpenSea, Dapper Labs, & others have captured was there any doubt Coinbase wouldn’t eventually enter the ring? Their waitlist is already 1M+ strong, their job board is […]

Week 2, September 21 – Weekly Wrap Up

September 11, 2021September 21, 2021M.C.Weekly Wrap Ups

1.) Apple Pays Out
2.) Amazon University
3.) Office Reopening Paused
4.) Crypto & The SEC

Is It Frothy Out There?

April 22, 2021M.C.Management

Maybe it’s the DOGE ripping to the moon. Could be the NFTs setting auction records. Or the red hot M&A market. The SPAC wave within an IPO tsunami? The point is it feels a little frothy out there. “Too much money chasing too few ideas” they have traditionally said. Does feel like there are a ton of ideas out there though?

Week 3, Apr 21 – Weekly Wrap Up

April 16, 2021April 19, 2021M.C.Weekly Wrap Ups

1.) Katrina to Exec Chair
2.) Bezos Final Letter
3.) IPO + M&A Round Up
4.) J&J Halted

Web 3.0’s Arrival Week

April 15, 2021April 29, 2021M.C.Management

In the annals of internet history, this week may very well signal an important inflection point of the transition from human driven platforms to machine driven protocols. What happened? Coinbase went public with a debut market cap north of $75B. It is the beginning of a new internet age. Web 3.0 is here.

Week 2, Apr 21 – Weekly Wrap Up

April 9, 2021April 9, 2021M.C.Weekly Wrap Ups

1.) Clubhouse Tips Out
2.) All Eyez on Coinbase
3.) LG Exits Stage Left
4.) Corporations Protest Too

Week 4, Feb 21 – Weekly Wrap Up

February 27, 2021March 18, 2021M.C.Weekly Wrap Ups

1.) Chip Shortage
2.) Coinbase S-1
3.) NFTs
4.) Spotify Launches Podvertising

Politics at Work – Election Season

October 29, 2020October 29, 2020M.C.Management

Corporations and politics have two very interesting common characteristics. They are both systems that help organize real people within business and government. And they are both completely imaginary systems made up in our collective minds. As companies prepare for the most charged election in a generation the question most leaders are asking of themselves and […]

Communication and Coinbase

October 22, 2020October 27, 2020M.C.Management

Peter Drucker, famed management consultant and apparent inventor of the moniker knowledge worker, once said “the most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said”. With that backdrop, Coinbase’s Founder & CEO Brian Armstrong lit a fire in the startup community after publishing a post about narrowing the focus of the company’s […]

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