After three decades in capital markets and entrepreneurial ventures, I’ve learned one hard truth: Most founders wait too long to think about their exit. They’re focused on growing the business, product-market fit, hiring the right people or raising their next round, and understandably so. But here’s the reality: The companies…

It seems that every day, there is another story about a young person who started a side hustle and hit it big. In 2024, over one-third of Americans had a side hustle to supplement their income. Side hustles are particularly appealing to Gen Z, with about half of them reporting…

Economists at Stanford University have found the strongest evidence yet that artificial intelligence is starting to eliminate certain jobs. But the story isn’t that simple: While younger workers are being replaced by AI in some industries, more experienced workers are seeing new opportunities emerge.Erik Brynjolfsson, a professor at Stanford University,…

A 515-mile-long lightning flash from Texas to Missouri in 2017 has been named the world’s longest electrical bolt thanks to U.S. satellite imagery displacing a past record-holder as climate change ushers in more extreme weather. Only recently review of a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration image from its GOES-16 satellite…

Founders often highlight their cash runway slide as a badge of confidence. Eighteen months of capital left, a clean upward revenue line and a plan that feels solid on paper. But when asked what would happen if their monthly spend increased by just $10,000, many hesitate.That hesitation points to a…

If you ask a large language model (LLM) like ChatGPT or Google Gemini to solve your customers’ pain points, it will give you an answer based on the easiest-to-verify information. That often includes published articles, consistent founder commentaries, structured product pages and other third-party references. If those answers do not…

At Bask Health, we once forced every new patient to download a separate app just to upload their ID. Only 40% of them made it through. Six weeks of development, thousands of dollars spent, and we called it a funnel. That one decision cost us more patients than any Facebook…

As artificial intelligence reshapes our world, we find ourselves in a curious conundrum. The same technology that promises to solve our most complex global challenges also threatens to disconnect us further from our essential human nature, and the home that we call planet earth. Being alive today is a gigantic…

Poor pricing always comes with a profit margin, whatever the category or product you have. In 2024, returns in ecommerce reached $743 billion, almost 15% of all retail sales in the US. A significant part of these returns would not have happened if priced right.Such errors are not only responsible…

When people leave their jobs, they often give polite reasons: “looking for growth,” “better alignment,” “more flexibility.” But after years of hiring, managing and losing people — some to better opportunities, some to burnout — I’ve come to believe that most job satisfaction boils down to just three things.Everything else…