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Growing up is hard
The other day we were interviewing a great new software developer for our marketing team, Denica, when I asked if she had any questions, she said, “I would really like to work for a startup and I’m...
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Being fat and smart (and obsessed)
Recently Michael Arrington wrote a very open blog post about being fat and wanting to do something about it, which really struck me. He was inspired by the scientific approach of one of the characters...
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SOPA sucks, but so do Wikipedia and Google
So today the internet went on strike – for good reason. Stupid politicians are trying to censor the internet in the name of protection against piracy (not the pirates who kill people off the coast of...
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Failure is brutal, success even more…
I’ve tried both failure and success. When I built my first startup Human Zoo, everything went well until 2001 — at which point we lost our largest customer and shortly after, ran out of money. I was...
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Democratizing Business
I don’t think that most people in Silicon Valley understand what viral means. Facebook is viral, Twitter is viral, but they think it means it spreads fast, “like a virus”, but a virus don’t just...
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Leadership from the trenches
Ben Horowitz recently published his book “The Hard Things, about Hard Things”. It’s no exaggeration to say I love it. As a third time founder having experienced many of the challenges first hand I...
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Building a Better World
When we created Tradeshift, it was always with the idea to do something bigger than what we had done before. I think it’s common for entrepreneurs to want to change the world for the better, but I...
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