Lessons from a Startup Life
Doug LevinAI and enterprise adoption, governance and trust, founder and board perspectives, and the evolving dynamics of VC, PE, blockchain, and crypto—offered through a free-plus-subscription model with select essays free and deeper, real-time analysis for sub's.
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Can an AI Agent Legally Run a Company? Delaware Thinks So
Delaware wants to give AI agents legal personhood in corporate form.
A proposal from Secretary of State Charuni Patibanda-Sanchez and John Nay, CEO of Norm AI, would create the “AIC” — an artificial intelligence company run day-to-day by a...
Social Media has Evolved into Something Beyond Social Networking
Danah Boyd, a communications researcher at Cornell, has published an important yet overlooked essay, "Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media," arguing that "social media" no longer describes the platforms it once named.
In other words, socia...
The Meter Is Running — and That’s Okay, We Can Catch Up
KPMG recently surveyed 2,145 senior executives across 20 countries about how they’re managing AI spending. The results are humbling: 29 percent said they don’t have clear visibility into where their AI costs are coming from. Another third s...
How to Find the Right Technology Board Member
These days, many boards are seeking a “tech expert” to strengthen their ranks.
But that instinct, left unexamined, leads companies to hire candidates with buzzwords on their LinkedIn profile and resume instead of addressing actual needs. A...
The Hole, Not the Drill: A Warning for AI-Native Founders
Theodore Levitt’s old marketing maxim has never been more dangerous to ignore: “People don’t want a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole.” For a generation of AI-native founders, the drill has become irresistible — and the hole...
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