Topic
Private Markets
A collection of 18 issues
Taking Stock in Strange Times
I’m back. Perhaps you hadn’t noticed that I’d gone. Well, too late, because I’m back.
For a few days last week, I suffered an abundance of thoughts, though few of them – none, actually – merited sharing with an audience. There are times when it’s advisable to
Living on the Nuclear Edge – Don't Worry, Not That One
One of the certainties of life is that neither good times nor bad times last indefinitely. Another certainty is that companies, as well as individuals, will experience ups and downs.
Dealing with good times isn’t a problem. Regardless of whether you’re steering a ship or whether you’re
Personal Reflections on Tariffs and the Law of Unintended Consequences
I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood. Nobody in our area had much money, except for a few people who might have been connected to organized crime, and I assume they did what they could to hide evidence of prosperity and to obscure the provenance of any alleged ill-gotten gains.
Tech Reaches the Geopolitical Summit: The Rise of Datacenter Diplomacy
There’s an article in – of all places – Foreign Policy that I recommend you read.
I recommend that you read the article not because I wholeheartedly agree completely with everything it says – the piece raises perhaps as many questions as it answers – but because I think it provides valuable insight
Robotaxis, Faux Robo PR, Robo Content Moderation, Kong’s New Valuation, Canadian Quantum, and Tech-Industry Lobbying
Taking in the Big Picture at OpenAI
It’s nearly impossible to keep up with all the announcements relating to genAI. Something new – funding, partnerships, releases of new or improved LLMs, executive hires, launches of strategic roadmaps – jumps to the front of the queue each day, to be brusquely displaced by something else, often later the same
Why Intel’s Future is Unlikely to Include an Acquisition by Qualcomm
Large parts of the technology industry would like to think of themselves as apolitical. Many denizens of the technology world might have no use for politics, but politics, especially of the geopolitical variety, unquestionably has use for many of them.
As geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China intensify,
Why Tech Employment is Not What It Used to Be
When major new technologies arise, the expectation is that prosperity will follow. What’s more, most observers reasonably assume that the wealth will be shared, not evenly – because that never happens – but at least broadly.
For the most part, these expectations and assumption were realized in past information-technology booms, including