Last summer we talked about the challenges of focus as the calendar turns seasons in “Summer is Around the Corner, Focus”. This summer, it’s a similar message. But on steroids with the reopening. People are burnt out after a long year and a half at home!
Spring has sprung, the reopening has begun, and for some of us it’s time to make new moves into the post pandemic future. Yeah, I’m talking about leaving your company and getting a new job. Especially if you’re a part of one of those Spartan operations trying to bring everyone back 5x per week.. You’re gonna lose some people! Just sayin!
Founders must have been jealous with all the asset focused froth talk last week because the humans came out in full force right after to show us that asset performance doesn’t have diddly on founder performance. A wise man once said “the only difference between genius and insanity is that genius has its limits”. That man was Albert Einstein and we can safely file him in the genius category.
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.
Life beyond COVID is right around the bend. Can ya feel it? Things will be different, undoubtedly. We talked about a return to the office last week and the understandable bias of wanting to keep teams together. What will work look like in the decade ahead? How do you want it to look in the years A.C.?
The majestic sun dropeth down over the horizon later, the weather is warming, and the vaccines are distributing! You know what that means? Return to office is almost upon us! Or…is it? Just this week San Francisco announced the city entered the “Orange Tier”. The Orange Tier, you see, is a new phase which no […]
Did you know that as of 2020 90% of assets on S&P 500 corporate balance sheets are intangible assets? In 1975 it was only 17% or roughly $122 billion dollars. The 90% intangible asset figure today represents over $21 trillion dollars. Numerically it’s astounding. Basically, over time, reality has become…perception. At least from an accounting standpoint.
1.) Square’s Tidal Wave
2.) Instacart
2.) Indie.vc
3.) Google Ad Tracking
Reflecting back on meme stock mania it’s clear that it was the breakout moment for FinTech darling Robinhood. Even after all their success to date this was different. They had 3M app downloads in January alone! Yet lost in the criticism of how they handled trading restrictions, the tense testimony on Capitol Hill, and all the rest of the noise is the reality that their breakout moment almost broke them. That’s the thing about breakout moments.
It was Plato who said “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” More or less those were his words. Plato did not know English though. He also appreciated that he did not know how good of a philosopher he was. He knew he didn’t […]