There was an internet war of words. Not necessarily a memorable one. One of the many that occurs on the digital battlefield each week. It might have been between VCs and the media and their coverage of some startup. One can’t be too sure. The specific tweet with the observation couldn’t be located, ok? Still, […]
We’re approaching the mid point of February in the year of our lord 2021 / 1 A.C. and we’ve vaccinated approximately 10% of the U.S. population with an initial Covid vaccine. If you think that opening line is boring, life is pretty boring now isn’t it? 3% of the population stands fully vaccinated. We’ve had emergency FDA authorization for the Pfizer & Moderna vaccines for about two months and America stands 5th worldwide in vaccinations per citizen.
…Is that any good? We’re at war with a virus. But it really doesn’t feel like it.
By now you know the story. Or at least a lot of it. An army of Redditors from the wallstreetbets forum, for the briefest of moments, brought Wall Street hedge funds to their knees. They engineered a decentralized yet coordinated short squeeze of brick & mortar stocks from a bygone era like GameStop, AMC, and others.
The mathematics of company building dictate that once a company gets big enough you’re going to deal with some people problems. If you have more than 365 employees and each of them has one bad day a year, you’ll have affected teams across the company pretty much EVERY day. One really bad day every 5 […]
Have you ever noticed the most curious trend with some of the smartest people? You ask if something is possible hopeful for an affirmative response. Five minutes later…they’re still talking! You don’t know which way is up or out of the hole you’ve been verbally burrowed down.
Who out there is feeling a bit unmoored? Like even when it’s completely quiet it still feels like there’s shouting in the distance? These are cRaZy times. Politics isn’t really a focus of this digital back room. However, technology companies have been thrust into the epicenter of this historically American hurricane nevertheless.
“They say…the price of my war’s not a price they are willing to pay. Insane.” So goes the opening line of What Comes Next from a comedic King George toward the tail end of Broadway musical Hamilton’s Act I. In our real life American production we have stormed into 2021 with quite the opening act led by just as equal of a buffoon. So this week we’re here to talk about Capitolism. Ahem, Capitalism.
It is the week of Christmas. The pre-eminent cultural holiday in the Western world that encompasses family, kindness, sharing, reconciliation and much much more. For many this year it represents the book end of a long year of challenges. What does Christmas mean to you? One favorite holiday movie, It’s A Wonderful Life, captures the […]
On the Twitter of late it feels like everyone has left SF and decamped to more bountiful lands of greater opportunity. Elon Musk has transported to Texas. Oracle too. Larry went to Hawaii though. VCs to Miami. Others have written OpEds. Still others have shown startling graphs about the effects a move has on a […]
This oh so humbling historic year of our Lord, 2020, is racing toward its close. Companies and leadership teams are no doubt eager to turn the page to 2021. But not all of them.. A lot of managers out there are preparing to deliver tough news.