What Happened To Optimism In America’s Tech Industry?A spectre is haunting venture capital — the spectre of pessimism.Jun 9, 2024Jun 9, 2024
The Most Important Schism Within The U.S. That No One Is Talking AboutAuthor’s Note: I’m not writing to convince anyone of my perspective. I’m writing this because I want my thoughts on the record. This will…May 26, 2024May 26, 2024
An Assay of the Modern AI Tech StackAuthor’s Note: An Assay is my version of a VC investment thesis. Read the Prelude section of An Assay of the Creator Economy to learn more.Feb 19, 2024Feb 19, 2024
Red Planet Capital: The NASA-backed VC Firm That Never WasI’ve been on a roll with these defense tech articles I’ve been writing recently. It’s become its own little mini-series.Jan 22, 2024Jan 22, 2024
SpaceX — The Promise and Potential of U.S. Industrial Policy?In an era of a diminished defense industrial base and VC preference for software startups, how does SpaceX exist?Jan 13, 2024Jan 13, 2024
The $3.5 Trillion ‘Catch 22’ of Re-GlobalizationThere’s $3.5 trillion at stake behind the recent surge of VC interest in defense technology. But re-globalization may not be so easy.Jan 12, 2024Jan 12, 2024
American Dynamism — Or Inertia?In an era of high interest rates and slowing venture capital activity, I was surprised to see a16z General Partner Katherine Boyle…Jan 11, 2024Jan 11, 2024
Is MrBeast The Ideal Content Creator?Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson hasn’t been on my radar until recently. I stumbled across the following video by Ro Ramadin: MrBeast: Dystopian…Apr 6, 2023Apr 6, 2023
Content Creators And Tech Founders Are More Alike Than DifferentThe similarities are striking as the two groups converge.Mar 29, 2023Mar 29, 2023
The Salvation of The Creator EconomyAmid our post-industrial era of the American economy, the rise of the digital realm proved to be the leading edge of our country’s…Mar 24, 2023Mar 24, 2023