Investment
When I evaluate pre-IPO retail access from the family office side, I run a simple test. I ask: who benefits more from this transaction, the buyer or the seller? If the company is engineering broad ownership before a public listing, the answer is almost always the seller.
Entrepreneurship
Every system you build is equity. Every process only you understand is a liability on the balance sheet.
AI & Tech
Slack announced more than 30 new capabilities for Slackbot today, transforming it from a simple chatbot into a full-spectrum enterprise agent powered by Anthropic's Claude and connected via MCP.
AI & Tech
OpenAI is shutting down Sora, the AI video platform it launched to enormous fanfare in late 2025. The consumer app, the API, and the website are all going dark. The billion-dollar Disney deal? Dead.
AI & Tech
The most safety-conscious AI lab on the planet just leaked its most dangerous model through a misconfigured content management system.
AI & Tech
Interloom just raised $16.5M to map how companies actually operate. The product is compelling, but the real opportunity is much bigger than one startup's context graph.
Systems Thinking
Most operators think about margin as an output. Revenue minus cost equals profit. Margin erosion almost never shows up as a single line item you can point to and fix. It shows up as a pattern, a reinforcing cycle where one problem feeds another.
AI & Tech
Anthropic released a new Claude model this week that wasn't supposed to be public. They called it an accident. The model appeared briefly, got pulled, and the story spread everywhere.
AI & Tech
A federal judge in San Francisco said today what the entire AI industry has been thinking for two weeks. The Pentagon's decision to blacklist Anthropic looks like an attempt to cripple the company.
Mark Zuckerberg is personally building an AI agent to help him run Meta. Not a prototype. Not a demo. A working tool. What his approach reveals about where every builder should start.
AI & Tech
Elon Musk just announced Terafab, a $20 billion-plus semiconductor fabrication facility in Austin that will manufacture custom chips for Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI under one roof.
AI & Tech
The Lead The Trump administration released its National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence today, and the headline provision is a direct call for Congress to preempt state-level AI...