What happens to a company when a visionary CEO is gone? Most often innovation dies and the company coasts for years on momentum and its brand. Rarely does it regain its former glory. Here’s why. Micro

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Kavanaugh and the Blackout Theory It is both easy and common to drink, act and then have no memory of it. Sept. 29, 2018 College students drinking at a tailgate party before an Indiana University foot

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Scott Barnett Oct 31, 2011 Fred – nice post. By CEO/VP Product, I assume you mean Product Manager, correct? If so, I’m in 100% agreement – one addition, is the technical co-founder should be very cogn

For the past several years, I've been thinking a lot about learning science, or the systematic investigation of how we learn. This was fueled by a switch in career trajectories after I graduated college towards software engineering. There's this really intimidating article that I often hesitantly…

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Pinterest Is a Unicorn. It Just Doesn’t Act Like One. Ben Silbermann, the chief executive of Pinterest, “measures twice, cuts once,” said one early investor in the company. Credit... Anastasiia Sapon

Historically, new models of computing have tended to emerge every 10–15 years: mainframes in the 60s, PCs in the late 70s, the internet in the early 90s, and smartphones in the late 2000s. Each comput

Amazon is one of the largest and most formidable companies in the world. It’s run with brutal efficiency, a keen focus on keeping its customers happy, and a deep thirst for innovation. Its $50 billion

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Tyler Comrie for BuzzFeed News In the days following Donald Trump ’s election victory over Hillary Clinton , Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg placed a secret, previously unreported call to the president-e

Today, we’re announcing that Pinterest has entered into an agreement to transfer ownership of Instapaper to Instant Paper, Inc., a new company owned and operated by the same people who’ve been working on Instapaper since it was sold to betaworks by Marco Arment in 2013. The ownership transfer will…

This story is excerpted from Valley of Genius, by Adam Fisher. Everyone who has seen The Social Network knows the story of Facebook’s founding. It was at Harvard in the spring semester of 2004. What p

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Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Biggest Companies Many pregnant women have been systematically sidelined in the workplace. They’re passed over for promotions and raises. They’re f

At its heart, AI is computer programming that learns and adapts. It can’t solve every problem, but its potential to improve our lives is profound. At Google, we use AI to make products more useful—fro

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Yesterday saw three developer-related announcements, two from Apple, and one from Microsoft. The former came as part of Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference keynote : The iOS App Store, whic

Through various methods, Silicon Valley has drilled into the minds of entrepreneurs the concept of product/market fit. Marc Andreessen says it’s the only thing that matters , and Brian Balfour has an

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I could have seen it only there, on the waxed hardwood floor of my elementary-school auditorium, because I was young then, barely 7 years old, and cable had not yet come to the city, and if it had, my

Eric Risberg / AP Syringes are scattered in the remains of a tent city along Division Street in San Francisco. Mark Farrell had just stepped off a train and was walking through San Francisco's Civic C

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