A historical collection of our writing.
Tomorrow evening I will be giving a talk on the “Future of Code” at the NASDAQ Startup CTO Summit. The amount of code in the world has been growing exponentially for years. And that means that when you are in 2026 looking back, something like 75% or more of all code will have been written […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
At present there are three common exit options for venture backed and bootstrapped startups: trade sale (most common), IPO (increasingly rare) and sale to a PE firm (growing). We need innovation here both in the existing options and by creating new ones that are a better fit for companies that have […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Now that I have, ahem, explained my take on explanations, Uncertainty Wednesday can move on to examine what limits them. Again, as a reminder, the whole point here is that limits to explanations and to observations are what results in uncertainty (we will soon also talk about whether there is […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Today our portfolio company Clarifai has announced its $30 million Series B financing led by Menlo Ventures. It constitutes an important milestone in the history of the New York City startup ecosystem: generous early backing for an ambitious technology vision. I have been around the NY technology […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Watching Tesla’s video of a door-to-door self driving car offers an amazing glimpse into an autonomous and robotic future But there was also a disturbing footnote to the announcement: you are not allowed to let your self-driving Tesla operate as part of Uber or Lyft, only as part of some […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
