How Growing Up on a Grape Farm Prepared Me to Lead a Tech Company
I grew up harvesting grapes on a 700-acre farm. It taught me the patience and risk management strategies I needed to be a tech CEO.
Achieving operational excellence with AI
Frameworks like Lean Six Sigma and business process management (BPM) first gained traction because they promised clarity in the chaos—a structured way to bring order to messy, sprawling operations. Lean Six Sigma emphasized statistical rigor and quality control; BPM created end-to-end maps of how work should flow across departments. Both offered a repeatable way to…
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Why Your Nonprofit Needs Corporate Strategy More Than Inspiration
Nonprofits don’t fail from lack of heart. They stall when systems and strategy don’t keep up with growth.
Snap is cutting 1,000 jobs, 16% of its workforce
The company cites advancements in AI for the cuts.
This App Hit No. 2 on the App Store — Then Apple Banned It
Freecash’s rise to the top of the App Store was an impressive feat, until Apple labeled it a scam.
Amazon Just Made a Big Space Play. Should Elon Musk Be Nervous?
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Reid Hoffman weighs in on the ‘tokenmaxxing’ debate
Reid Hoffman says tracking AI token use can gauge adoption, but cautions it should be paired with context and not treated as a direct productivity metric.
Adobe’s new Firefly AI assistant can use Creative Cloud apps to complete tasks
Adobe says the assistant can work across apps like Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Express, Illustrator and its other apps to do tasks for you.
This energy startup’s bet on 100-year-old grid tech is paying off
Ayr Energy is using a shortage of power conversion equipment to break open a decades-old market.
Gitar, a startup that uses agents to secure code, emerges from stealth with $9 million
The company uses AI to review code that, more often than not these days, has also been generated by AI.
This startup is betting tokenmaxxing will create the next compute giant
Parasail raised $32 million in a Series A, signaling a fractured future of models and compute.