For most of my career I believed I was building products but looking back, I was mostly building org charts. Every real scaling problem I hit — Weedmaps…
Most advice about building a company is the answer to a puzzle. The hardest parts were never puzzles. In 1921, the economist Frank Knight drew a line that…
One week ago I announced Grazier Ventures and Aqen.ai. Since then I’ve been asked a version of the same question about a dozen times: how are you actually going…
Two things happened last week that look unrelated but aren’t. JPMorgan told its 65,000 engineers and technologists that AI tool usage is now part of their performance reviews.…
Silicon Valley has a new competitive sport, and it’s exactly the mistake you think it is. The New York Times reported last week that engineers at Meta, OpenAI,…
Every engineering leader I know is running at least one AI meeting recorder. Fathom, Otter, Fireflies, Granola — they show up in your Zoom call, they transcribe everything,…
Every company I’ve talked to in the last two quarters is asking the same question about AI: what’s the ROI? The instinct is to measure AI value in cost…
Jack Dorsey announced this week that Block is cutting roughly 3,500 people — about 40% of its workforce. The stock has been sliding for years. The headlines are…
In 2015, I stood in front of a room full of engineers at Code Driven NYC and laid out a formula for how individual contributors could take charge…
Every major era of software development has produced a defining platform company. The one that quietly became the infrastructure everyone depends on. GitHub didn’t win because git was…