News Founders of Successful Tech Companies Are Mostly Middle-AgedThe New York Times - Seema JayachandranThis article has been revised to reflect the following correction: Because of an editing error, a picture caption with an earlier version of this article misstated the age at which Steve Jobs co-founded
I Asked 100 Founders, CEOs and VCs About Career Transitions — Here’s What I Learnedfirstround.com After founding and scaling LendUp for seven years, Sasha Orloff decided to step down as CEO. He shares his journey and his illuminating takeaways …
The Inside Story of How This Startup Turned a 216-Word Pitch Email into a $2.6 Billion Acquisitionfirstround.com Looker went from a single customer to more than 1700, from a small, scrappy team in Santa Cruz to a 700-person company spanning eight offices around …
Superhuman is Spying on You » Mike Industriesmikeindustries.com Over the past 25 years, email has weaved itself into the daily fabric of life. Our inboxes contain everything from very personal letters, to work …
This 1999 Apple video shows Jony Ive in the process of becoming Jony IveFast Company - Harry McCrackenFrom the 1990s onward, Ive’s understated—but hardly modest—explanations of Apple’s design goals have been instrumental to its product launche. If you want to know the legacy of Jonathan Ive, who announced
Facebook Facebook’s Privacy Cakestratechery.com - Ben Thompson What was striking about the reaction to Mark Zuckerberg’s latest missive about the future of Facebook, A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social …
“She Never Looks Back”: Inside Elizabeth Holmes’s Chilling Final Months at TheranosVanity Fair - Nick BiltonAt the end, Theranos was overrun by a dog defecating in the boardroom, nearly a dozen law firms on retainer, and a C.E.O. grinning through her teeth about an implausible turnaround. Elizabeth Holmes appeared
Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Companymedium.com - Sahil Lavingia It doesn’t look too bad, right? It’s going in the right direction: up. But we were venture-funded, which was like playing a game of double-or-nothing. …
Icon version of the Flipboard logo #SimplicityPayssimplicityindex.com While industry trends ebb and flow, one fact remains-simplicity pays. Since 2009, a stock portfolio comprised of the publicly traded simplest brands in …
SpaceX Elon Musk teases final look of SpaceX's Starship test vehicleEngadget - Jon FingasIt's no secret that SpaceX has been constructing its Starship test vehicle -- it's easy for curious onlookers to snap photos. But what will it look like when it's finished? You don't have to wonder. Elon
The Myth of the IntrapreneurHarvard Business Review - Andrew CorbettThe Post-It note. Facebook’s “like” button. The Sony PlayStation. These products are all held up as legendary examples of the power of intrapreneurship — entrepreneurial creativity and innovation within
The Founder’s Guide to Discipline: Lessons from Front’s Mathilde Collinfirstround.com Front's CEO and co-founder Mathilde Collin shares why a founder’s discipline matters more than vision, unveiling her own best practices and templates …
The Principles Of Early-Stage Product Development – The Founder Coachdave-bailey.com - Dave Bailey Every new tech product starts with a simple idea. But in the brutal battle of creation, things can get complicated fast. The focus shifts from the …
Venture Capital Money vs. morals: Khashoggi killing raises questions in Silicon Valley about Saudi investmentThe Washington Post“It is time for all of us in the startup and VC sector to do a deep dive on our investor base,” Fred Wilson, the influential founder of Union Square Ventures, a New York City-based venture capital firm
7 Counterintuitive Rules for Growing Your Business Super-Fastmedium.com - Reid Hoffman To achieve ‘blitzscaling,’ you have to go against common sense When it comes to startups, there’s growth, and then there’s ultra-rapid growth—what I …
Curiosity doesn’t kill companiesmedium.com - Aytekin Tank “Did you hear what the Byzantine princess brought with her to Venice?” his female companion says. “It’s a pronged-contraption that allows her to eat …
Snap CEO Sets Goal of Profitability in 2019Cheddar CEO Evan Spiegel has given Snap Inc. the directive of achieving full-year profitability in 2019 and has refocused the company around a new set of …
Warren Buffett Says the Ultimate Test of How You've Lived Your Life Boils Down to 1 Powerful WordInc Magazine - Marcel SchwantesHow many of us can truly measure up to this? When it comes to sage-like wisdom, Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett has a mountainous surplus of it circulating the internet. Some of his advice is so
Elon Musk agrees to pay $20 million and quit as Tesla chairman in deal with SECCNN Business - by Jackie WattlesElon Musk agreed Saturday to step down as chairman of Tesla and pay a $20 million fine in a deal to settle charges brought this week by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Under the settlement, which
Exclusive: WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton Gives The Inside Story On #DeleteFacebook And Why He Left $850 Million BehindForbes - Parmy OlsonWhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton, 46, sits in a cafe of the glitzy Four Seasons Hotel in Palo Alto, California, and the only way you’d guess he might be worth $3.6 billion is the $20 tip he briskly leaves
When Zuckerberg Asserted Control, Instagram’s Founders ChafedThe New York Times - By MIKE ISAACSAN FRANCISCO — In a companywide meeting earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg was asked if Instagram could have hit one billion users if it had not been bought by Facebook. But at a later meeting a mile
Condé Nast Apple Hires Former Condé Nast Executive for News Apptheinformation.com - By Apple is beefing up the management of its Apple News product, with the recent hiring of veteran media executive Liz Schimel. The hiring is another …
A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Jim Barksdale and “Barksdaleisms”25iq.com Since the contributions of business executives with great operations skills are too often underappreciated I decided to do a blog post on a notable …
History lessons for managersThe Economist BUSINESS leaders often have a poor opinion of politicians, preferring to find their heroes elsewhere—in other boardrooms or on the coaching field. …
Tim Sweeney: Epic’s CEO on Fortnite on Android, skipping Google Play, and the open MetaverseVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiTim Sweeney is quiet as CEOs go. But the head of Epic Games isn’t shy when it comes to expressing his opinions about the state of games, game development, and the need for open technology initiatives ensure
Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an ‘Excruciating’ YearThe New York Times - By DAVID GELLES, JAMES B. STEWART, JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and KATE KELLYElon Musk was at home in Los Angeles, struggling to maintain his composure. “This past year has been the most difficult and painful year of my career,” he said. “It was excruciating.” The year has only
Deals on Wheels: Why Group Bike Rides Are the New BoardroomThe Wall Street Journal. - Kris FrieswickFar & Away, from National Geographic and The Wall Street Journal. ONCE CONSIDERED an obscure sport for kids, commuters and hardcore fitness fanatics, cycling has evolved in the past few years into both
The Man Who Lied to His Laptop: What We Can Learn About Ourselves from Our Machinesamazon.com - Corina Yen Counterintuitive insights about building successful relationships- based on research into human-computer interaction. Books like Predictably Irrational …
Unemployed Polish Guy Launches Apple-Based Vodka Linesidehustleschool.com For Dariusz Paczuski, it was an “involuntary sabbatical” that prompted him to start his side hustle. After four and a half years as the head of …
