“It’s very hard as an entrepreneur when you’re working out of your apartment, to know what that size could be one day,” DoorDash cofounder Tony Xu said.
Many aspects of retirement planning are the subject of hot debate, even among experts. Here are three tricky decisions that confront people planning retirement today.
Decision 1: How much to withdraw each year in retirement
It’s impossible…
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison left MIT twice before building a $159 billion fintech firm—but says being a dropout isn’t key to seizing AI opportunity.
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Almost every conversation I have with leaders these days revolves around the topic of burnout in their teams.
And I’m not talking about having a bad day or a hard week, but the real thing. You know, the kind that creeps in quietly, accumulates over…
There’s a question I’ve been turning over for years, both as a founder and as an early-stage investor: What separates the people who build something truly extraordinary from those who build something merely good?
I’ve had an unusu…
How can you change your brain chemistry, releasing hormones that will help you de-stress and even help protect your heart health? Perform small acts of kindness. It sounds odd, and possibly too good to be true, but researchers, psy…
In 2011, the 9/11 truther Charlie Veitch released a cellphone video renouncing his earlier belief that the terrorist attack was an “inside job.” As David McRaney explained in How Minds Change, the backlash was “swift and brutal.” Veitch was rele…
I’m not sure about you, but I think I’ve had enough of trying to optimize everything.
A few days ago I saw one post on LinkedIn giving me 8 Simple Ways to Start a Business. I let out a sigh. Then less than a minute later, another post, 6 Simple Ste…
Organizations that create the most effective agentic HR functions don’t just scale pilots. They define the human–agent operating model for the function first, then work backward to implementation.




