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Om – I hope this finds you well. Your post about Wired tickled just the right group of neurons to make me write something. It’s kind of a rant. But also something I’ve been thinking about for a long time. Would love to reconnect. best fv Hi Fred Thanks for the note. I would love […]

All: Here’s a note Om’s family just posted on his website Om.co: Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart. He was surrounded by family and friends. We invite you to share your remembrances of Om in the comments on his website Om.co, or […]

Silicon Valley has been trying to come up with solutions to the U.S.’s health care bureaucracy for generations. But the administrative burden on patients, doctors … everyone, really, has only gotten worse. Myriad studies over the years have identified doctor burnout as a critical problem. It’s been so hard to fix partly because software historically […]

So … I’ve only skimmed the Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz New Yorker opus on Sam Altman. But my immediate reaction was that they didn’t ask the right question. A story that asks whether Altman can be trusted seems self-evident to me. Maybe the more generalist New Yorker audience actually believed OpenAI’s pitch about how […]

Jessica Powell still vividly remembers her first set of funding pitches for Audioshake six years ago. They were a disaster. She’d spent a decade at Google rising to become its head of all communications. She knew many of the venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. But when she sat down with investors to actually pitch her […]

Apple is 50 today. And while the first 25 years was bumpy. Boy, have they made it look easy in the past 25 years. Every year, like clockwork, Steve Jobs and now Tim Cook have regaled us with innovation after innovation. The company almost went bankrupt in 1997. Today it’s worth $3.76 trillion. Jobs, as […]

I have been crowing about OpenClaw for a few months now. It is AI’s democratization moment. Why it matters isn’t the actual software, but more about the possibility it represents: intelligence on the cheap. Then Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang spent two hours at his company’s GPU technology conference (GTC) anointing it as the new Windows. […]

It’s easy to be skeptical when you first hear about Enveda and its 30-something founder Viswa Colluru. The business he’s in – making medicines from plants and other natural products – is filled with charlatans. And Colluru lately has been making not just bold claims but ones that seem flatly ridiculous. He says his five-year […]

The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence, now just three years old, has raised concerns about a potential tech bubble reminiscent of the 1999 internet bubble. Over $600 billion is projected for global AI investments in 2025, with significant risks tied to overspending, leverage, and uncertainties regarding genuine profitability.

Every so often, we find ourselves in the middle of a massive technological wave that starts to upend our presumptions and our ideas about the past, present, and future. These waves come with excess—optimism, excitement, hype, and speculation. Since non-believers don’t invent the future and speculators are always on a hustle, I often turn to […]

Every morning nearly 100,000 geeks world wide, including some of the richest tech barons in the universe, fire up one of the most dated-looking websites online to find out what’s going on in their world. Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Sundar Pichai at Google, Satyla Nadella at Microsoft, Matthew Prince at Cloudflare along with investors Mark […]

Sixteen years ago Matthew Prince and classmate Michelle Zatlyn at Harvard Business School decided there was a better way to help companies handle hacker attacks to their websites. Prince and a friend had already built an open source system to help anyone with a website more easily track spammers. What if the three of them […]