Founders Over Funders. Inventors Over Investors.

I've been following tech news for decades, and one of the worst trends in the broader cultural conversation about technology — one that's markedly accelerated...

Moguls Moving Money Isn’t the Same as Building a Business

One key point about entrepreneurship (which I covered in my lengthy piece yesterday) is worth amplifying because society is often being lied to about what...

"AI-first" is the new Return To Office

The latest fad amongst tech CEOs is no longer "founder mode", or taking drugs that they would fire you for taking, or telling everybody to return to...

Systems: How the Ultra-Wealthy Think About Money

A lot of the ways that the ultra-wealthy think about, and act about, money seem almost incomprehensible to those outside of their orbit. Having had a chance to...

Systems: What does a board of directors do?

Nearly every organization that is designed to have impact has a board of directors, whether that's a small non-profit, or a giant corporation, or anything in...

"VC qanon" and the radicalization of the tech tycoons

Today, in the New York Times, Paul Krugman shares a key insight that his headline editor summarizes as The Rich Are Crazier Than You and Me . While this is...

Today's AI is unreasonable.

There's an extraordinary amount of hype around "AI" right now, perhaps even greater than in past cycles, where we've seen an AI bubble about once per...

The tech tycoon martyrdom charade

I've been saying this for a few years now, but it's worth recording here for the record: It's impossible to overstate the degree to which many big tech CEOs and...

Mechanisms of Exclusion

There’s been a recent re-emergence of the perennial tech industry conversation about how the venture capital industry can stop excluding women from both joining...

TechCrunch, Venture Capital, Record Labels and Getting What You Asked For

There have been another spate of interesting conversations around the tech industry about what goals a tech company should have, and how they should achieve...

The VC Three

One of the most interesting subcultures of the technology industry is that of the venture capitalists that fund so much of what’s going on. While the...

Capital Influx

Liz nails one of my recurrent peeves about people who consider themselves entrepreneurs these days: It amazes me that people have such short memories. There was...