Larry Gies: scaling purpose to 25,000 employees. For a brief moment in time Larry and I guest spoke to the same class at the University of Illinois. On average that year, each of us guest speakers donated $15 million to […]
How should a founder process this sort of feedback? Neither by flatly dismissing it, nor by giving up because of it, but by doing the homework to understand why this time is different. “Each generation of founders comes back to […]
Matt Rutledge is not thrilled with the direction Woot.com has gone since its acquisition by Amazon in 2010. He decided (as of 2013, but I just learned about it) to start retailing his way once again. | learn more
Written by Brian Armstrong, founder and CEO of Coinbase. Short and punchy. | learn more
“Tim Chen reflects on the arc of his journey as founder after more than a decade of company building. He shares the six mindset shifts he needed to make to transition from entrepreneur to executive as his startup scaled, weaving […]
The founder of Blockstack announced their token offering on Hacker News and answered a bunch of hostile questions. | learn more
Axios founder Dan Primack tweeted that the unicorn exit isn’t necessary, and that ignited quite the online debate. Jeff Carter at West Loop Ventures summarizes responses and adds his own take. | learn more
Jason Calacanis has earned his spurs as an angel investor. He’s had a lot of success picking winners including Uber and Thumbtack. He outlines his strategy for intro meetings, including the questions he thinks are most important. | learn more