I'm currently in the process of writing an essay on grit and being scrappy. It has taken many renditions over the past month. Then this morning Sam posted a speech he gave back in 2018 that is very thoughtful and pointed. The content resonated and slightly overlapped on the direction I wanted to take the… Continue reading Sam Altman’s Post
Month: May 2020
Remote First ‘Forever’
Shopify (link here) and now Coinbase, both announced today, are the latest tech firms to embrace remote first; allowing a majority of their employees to work from where they choose or any office of their liking. Link here for Coinbase. They’re following in Jack’s decision to let the Twitter employees as well. Over the past two months there… Continue reading Remote First ‘Forever’
Machine learning for the enterprise
Where should we expect there to be disruption in the next 5 years, and specifically across enterprise-grade machine learning? Additionally, what areas will companies likely focus on building, and what will be acquired by large incumbents? To understand this, we need to know where we are currently and what we have accomplished to date. Currently,… Continue reading Machine learning for the enterprise
Likely a new HBS case study: Quibi
Is anyone else following Quibi (or even downloaded it)? I think it'll soon be a business school case study on what went wrong. The team (Jeffrey Katzenberg / Meg Whitman) raised $1.75bn, recruited some big names for producing and staring (Steven Spielberg and Liam Hemsworth), and sold $150m of add inventory pre-launch. Some of those… Continue reading Likely a new HBS case study: Quibi
Near term M&A
https://giphy.com/gifs/lab-psychology-physiology-3oEduXcQeQCX3vwxxK What the market has been doing M&A market in the near-term is changing a little: (1) confidence is what drives deals (we've got low confidence); (2) it takes 6 months for private markets to catch up to the public markets; (3) low volatility enables an active M&A market, but currently volatility is still somewhat… Continue reading Near term M&A
Zooming Data
I found out that on #zoom you can download your usage data. Below are my own personally scheduled meetings from April (which does not include others scheduling on my calendar). On average the duration was 31.1 minutes with a median time of 29.5. On average the number of participants was 4.6 and median participants of 3. Additionally,… Continue reading Zooming Data
Venture Deals in 2020
Since the Coronavirus was labeled a ‘pandemic’ on March 11th, over 372 startups have laid off more than 39,000 employees. The latest big announcement being yesterday with Airbnb and 25% of their staff being cut (equating to 1,900 employees), even after they just took on $2bn in debt. Airbnb also cuts deep as it's a… Continue reading Venture Deals in 2020
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