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Stop Blaming the Summer Slump and Start Building a Scalable Growth Engine

August 25, 2026
Leaders, we have crossed the midpoint of the third quarter. As CEOs and founders scaling growth-stage companies, let us have a direct, unfiltered conversation: How is your Q3 really going?
If your assessment includes excuses about how “things naturally slow down during summer vacations,” or if you are blaming the infamous Summer Slump, let me be frank: you have a fundamental flaw in your scaling strategy.

The Download: smarter AI in schools, and a robot “carnival” in Shanghai

August 25, 2026
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom Chatbots took schools by surprise. Suddenly, students carried an app in their phones that could magically answer almost any homework question or…