In the technology and automotive sectors, the line between visionary road mapping and outright theatrical deception has grown perilously thin. For decades, Silicon Valley has operated under an unwritten rule: if you can convince investors and the buying public that
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When Ithaca Holdings swooped in to acquire Bumble in a $1.3 billion take-private deal, the immediate industry reaction focused almost entirely on the consumer implications of saving a distressed social platform. But if you look past the consumer-facing interface and
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A recent segment on The Daily Show where Jon Stewart Unpacks AI’s Dubious Promise of a “Better Future” exposed a glaring blind spot in executive boardrooms across the globe. In the broadcast, Stewart dissects the White House AI summit, where
For those of us who have spent decades building, modifying, and analyzing personal computers—going all the way back to my early days at IBM in the 1980s—watching the tech industry try to invent a new hardware category out of thin
Reflecting on my time judging the recent HP Future of Work Accelerator Pitch Fest in New York, something kept gnawing at me. As I sat alongside my fellow judges—Antara Lahiri, Catherina Gioino, and HP’s Michele Malejki—we watched five remarkable organizations
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Whenever a single vendor captures 80 percent of a highly lucrative market, history tells us two things are about to happen. First, the dominant player will begin to act as if their moat is impenetrable, often prioritizing lock-in and margin
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IFA Berlin serves as a strange battlefield for heavy compute hardware. The Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin operates as one of the oldest industrial exhibitions in Germany. It targets a massive consumer demographic. Industry data suggests the trade show consistently pulls in
Lenovo unveiled the Motorola Edge 70 Plus and a bunch of other cool personal products at IFA 2026. The new device features a 200-megapixel camera. This aggressive product launch demonstrates exactly how Lenovo successfully rescued a dying smartphone brand. Lenovo
Meta recently agreed to a seventeen-billion-dollar settlement resolving ongoing youth addiction lawsuits. The deal forces Facebook to implement strict daily time limits for teenage users. Executives are paying billions to actively lock kids out of their own platforms. This won’t
I track these industry shifts from my home office here in Bend, Oregon. I serve as the Trustee for a shopping center-owning trust (or did). Recently, I finalized the official closing date for the shopping center we held in Tustin,
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