Patty McCord, former Chief Talent Officer at Netflix, helped build their strong culture of success. A few years ago, I saw a deck that outlined how they think about roles/employment and it blew my mind. Patty breaks down her BS-free […]
Niraj Shah and Steve Conine are the founders of Wayfair.com, an internet retailer with over $4B in sales that was once an assortment of 250 disparate niche websites. They tell their interesting founding story in this interview. | learn more
“Long term investors sold $30 billion of bitcoin to new speculators between December 2017 and April 2018, with half of this transfer occurring in December alone. This was an unprecedented sell off and such an opportunity is unlikely to be […]
This short video demos live image detection with digital information attaching to a physical object. This is a peek into the future, and I like it! | learn more
The real-estate company with a nice patina of tech has been in the news a lot lately because of their massive funding from SoftBank and eye-popping valuation. Recently I found great articles on the bull case for the business and the bear case on […]
Andrew Chen published a post that all internet marketers should read. It gets to the heart of why we must discount vanity A/B test results and vendor-promised “conversion rate lift”. He calls it conservation of intent. | learn more
The Zoo has released a new season of an ‘All My Penguins’ real-life drama. “Heartbreaker Madiba can’t pick between boys Dudley and Mandela. And grumpy Maynard has a soft spot for Aiden — but she’s also seeing Pilchard.” | learn more
“Feds told Cinespace chief he could go to prison for as long as five years — or cooperate in undercover probe of Teamsters boss.” | learn more
They inadvertently used a photo of the replicate Statue of Liberty in Las Vegas on their postage stamp. Now they have to pay the artist $3.5 million in royalties. | learn more
The City of Amsterdam drained sections of a canal for a new subway line and had a rare opportunity to recover centuries of lost objects from the riverbed. They recovered 700k and published high res photos of 20k. | learn more