What makes you new, different, and unique in the world will often be the exact thing that makes you succeed.
How Airbnb and DoorDash Succeeded: First Principles
What society imposes on us is the wrong kind of thinking: one that is based on analogy and credentialism instead of first…
Spotting the inflection point: How Initialized Helped Coinbase at the moment of product market fit
In 2013, I was helping Brian Armstrong get introductions to the Valley’s best investors.
Wish goes public as e-commerce Boom Continues
Congratulations to Wish on its initial public offering today!
Transcribing the World for the Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing Community with Ava
Ava delivers superior AI-based captioning products that meet the standards of 460 million Deaf & hard-of-hearing people — a uniquely engaged audience…
Initializing 1 Billion Careers with Career Karma
With nearly 70 million Americans filing for unemployment since March, the pandemic has hurtled the U.S.
Solving the $160 billion food waste problem
How Shelf Engine got 4 of the top 10 grocers and reached product market fit through a perfect go-to-market pivot Stefan Kalb…
5 Steps to Winning Career Tournaments
There are tournaments everywhere–jobs, admissions, promotions, startup funding.
Better, Faster, Cheaper
Being First Doesn’t Matter— But You Do Need To Be Better, Faster, Or Cheaper.
The future of practical robotaxis is here
Autonomous car with no safety driver for $50M, not $10B You’ve heard of Waymo and Cruise (Initialized was actually an early seed…