We all get it: yes, the news is overly negative, and yes, it often gets some things wrong. But in the end, we’re better off for it. That’s how the argument usually goes. Some even say we need the news, that democracy is impossible without it. In this article, I’m going to challenge that idea. In fact,…
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Mark Zuckerberg has a net worth of $74 billion, according to Forbes. The Facebook CEO and his wife, Priscilla Chan, could buy their two daughters almost anything. But they don’t. Zuckerberg told CBS’ Gayle King how he and Chan raise their kids to be grounded despite the family wealth. “First of all, we don’t give them everything,”…
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What Kind of Capitalism Do We Want? Though the concept of “stakeholder capitalism” has been around for a half-century, it has only recently begun to gain traction against the prevailing shareholder-primacy model of profit maximization. Now, advocates of a more socially conscious economic system must take steps to ensure that their vision takes hold for…
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So, why make predictions? Eisenhower said, “Plans are worthless, but planning is indispensable.” The same is true for predictions — they matter for the strategy and data behind them. Predictions are useless, but scenario planning is invaluable. I’ve been told by CEOs and elected officials that our predictions made them contemplate actions they hadn’t previously…
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The big-risk-big-reward ethos of startups is fuelled by venture capitalists who know that they won’t be the ones to go broke. For a certain sort of nineteenth-century person—the sort with high risk tolerance and little revulsion to brutality—a natural career lay in whaling. The odds of success here were, by almost every measure, poor. An…
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The Inner Game — The standard way of learning is far from being the fastest or most enjoyable. It’s slow, makes us second guess ourselves, and interferes with our natural learning process. Here we explore a better way to learn and enjoy the process. Clearly, almost every human activity involves both the outer and inner…
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The ability to stay the course can make or break a business — and that’s something that self-made billionaire Jack Ma knows well. The iconic entrepreneur has led Alibaba since its inception in 1999. Under his watch, the company grew into a major tech juggernaut to make Ma one of the richest men in China. Ma’s track record comes at…
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There are three things an entrepreneur-CEO must do well to be successful: 1) envision a new and better way of doing things, 2) build that out by building and running one’s organization so that it works excellently, and 3) transition that organization to people who can be successful without the entrepreneur-CEO. To do these things…
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Life is precious and we only get one shot at it. Nevertheless, a lot of people spend their life merely passing the time rather than making the most of the short time they have left. Young people are especially guilty of this — we are in the springtime of our lives. If ever there was…
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An overview about 2019’s most active investors in early stage rounds in European companies.
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