Twenty years ago, I launched my company with a head full of optimism and a thin playbook. The market was smaller, capital was scarcer, and the word “scale” usually referred to manufacturing, not software.Let me save you twenty years. Through three recessions, a pandemic and a Russian hack I’ll never forget, I learned that every outcome — good and bad — was dictated by three things: approach to equity, obsession with speed and commitment to building for the future, not just the present.If I could sit down with a new B2B founder today, these are the three conversations I’d make…
Retirement used to be seen as the end of the hustle, a time to slow down and relax. However, retirees are abandoning that old playbook. Most retirees want to have the time to do the extra things they could not in their lifelong careers.Due to better health, economic uncertainty and…
A recent, hours-long fire at a data center used by Elon Musk’s X may have begun after an electrical or mechanical issue in a power system, according to an official fire investigation.WIRED was the first to report on the blaze, which occurred on May 22 in Hillsboro, Oregon. Data center…
Tim Berg is a simple guy. He likes eating fresh foods and spending time outdoors. Ice Cream for Bears is Berg’s experiment to prove that nature’s bare gifts are beyond plentiful to satisfy our cravings. After two years in the wilderness, Ice Cream for Bears is entering thousands of stores,…
We all know how social media provides an endless stream of opinions, confident recommendations and even downright wrong information. Long before we were exposed to social media, we got all of that same type of chatter from an even more familiar source — our own brains. It comes in the…
Barbie just had a billion-dollar year. DeLorean is back in production — but in truth, it never really left, with decades of cultural presence, strong collectible car sales and ongoing IP licensing deals. Vintage Levi’s now sell for more than new pairs. Yet, nearly 88% of Fortune 500 companies from…
When I first started my business, I approached budgeting with the optimism of someone who hadn’t yet been burned. I treated it like a tidy math problem: Plug in a few cost estimates, apply a sensible cushion, and the numbers would hold. At least, they did in the spreadsheet.What I…
For crypto firms, the vibe shift is a blessing. Although they have comparatively few problems accessing overseas bank accounts—often in the Cayman Islands or Switzerland—in lieu of a US bank account, they are often unable to earn yield on deposits or transact seamlessly with US-based counterparties, and sometimes they incur…
As artificial intelligence accelerates across every industry, the next generation of successful AI-native companies won’t be defined by cutting-edge models alone. Instead, they’ll be defined by how well their business models align with how AI works in the wild. In 2025, it’s no longer enough to be AI-powered—companies must be…
Growing up in Toronto, Canada, Tanya Taylor, now founder of her namesake womenswear brand and a second eveningwear brand, Delphine, didn’t really know she could build a career in fashion, she says. However, as someone from a “very entrepreneurial” family, she’d always dreamed of running her own business.Image Credit: Courtesy…
Dropbox was born because Drew Houston was sick of emailing himself files. ConvertKit came from a blogger who was tired of clunky email automations. Notion grew out of the chaos of managing scattered notes and documents.These weren’t random startup ideas pulled from a pitch deck. They were solutions to personal…
On November 2, 2022, I attended a Google AI event in New York City. One of the themes was responsible AI. As I listened to executives talk about how they aligned their technology with human values, I realized that the malleability of AI models was a double-edged sword. Models could…
The One Big Beautiful Bill, signed into law in early July, directly rolls back several core provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act, widely regarded as the most ambitious U.S. climate policy to date. According to Rhodium Group, the bill could cut the build-out of new clean power capacity by 53–59%…
I’m on my knees in a Niles, Illinois, apartment, installing a medical alert system for an elderly client. I had just bought into the company, and we were losing $500K a month. I needed to go and see why.She served me tea and cookies while I worked. Then she said…
But the competitive landscape for AI-assisted coding platforms is crowded. Startups Windsurf, Replit, and Poolside also sell AI code-generation tools to developers. Cline is a popular open-source alternative. GitHub’s Copilot, which was developed in collaboration with OpenAI, is described as a “pair programmer” that auto-completes code and offers debugging assistance.Most…
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