Don’t Limit Your Product to 1 Market — Build With Expansion in Mind. Here’s How I Did It.
Most companies build products for the market in front of them. The companies that last build platforms that can expand far beyond it.
The inevitable weakness of metrics
There are plenty of useful things a metric can reveal. There are even more it can obscure or corrupt. It took me well over a decade of tracking my own life in ever greater detail to fully appreciate this duality, which probably reveals something about both me and the nature of measurement. Like a lot…
8 Hard Truths About Franchising Your Business (Before You Scale Too Soon)
Franchising isn’t just about expanding a business — it’s about transforming one.
Following Anthropic, OpenAI files confidentially for IPO
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, the company said Monday in a blog post. The filing comes a little more than week after its main rival, Anthropic, also filed to go public, ramping up the race between the two AI firms. OpenAI, which was last valued at $852 billion post-money, submitted […]
Why Diversification No Longer Works — and What Businesses Should Do Instead
As geopolitical turbulence, tech disruption and global inflation hit industries simultaneously, companies are discovering that diversification may weaken resilience rather than strengthen it.
Apple plays catch-up at WWDC
Apple spent much of its WWDC keynote highlighting fixes, performance improvements, and long-requested features before unveiling its upgraded AI-powered Siri, signaling that the company wants users to see AI as just one part of a broader effort to improve its software.
Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers
As AI experimentation grows more expensive, Apple is waiving cloud API costs for developers with fewer than 2 million first-time App Store downloads.
Waymo bought Apple’s self-driving car proving ground for $220M
Waymo has acquired a massive 5,500-acre proving ground in Arizona owned by Route 14 Investment Partners LLC, a Delaware shell company associated with Apple, according to documents filed with Maricopa County. Waymo acquired the property, which is located near other proving grounds in Wittman, Arizona, for $220 million, according to the filing. The sale was […]
Microsoft’s open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers
Microsoft shut down dozens of GitHub code repositories for Azure and AI coding tools after a reported hack.
AI Is Letting Companies Cut Entry-Level Jobs. Here’s Why That Is a ‘Critical Strategic Mistake,’ According to an MIT Economist.
MIT economist Frank Nagle says jobs fall into three broad buckets ranging from full automation to fully human work.
Pentagon says Alibaba, Baidu, BYD and Unitree support China’s military
The Trump administration released the updated version of the list four months ago and then quickly pulled it without explaining why