What is the purpose of receiving an education? Up until about a decade ago, education was the primary facilitator of social mobility. The American Dream wasn’t...

How do you make a hard decision when neither choice is good? There’s a great book called The Hard Thing About Things by Ben Horowitz (one of the...

There is an art to quitting your job. When you are a business owner, you know that some employees will stay with you for thirty years,...

Leaders can usually tell who they’re going to eventually promote. That’s because certain individuals start leading others long before they wear the title of Manager, Vice...

It’s one thing for a company to run a marketing campaign with a hashtag promoting social good. It’s entirely another for a company to deploy marketing...

There is a fine line between apologizing and taking responsibility. A few years ago, I wrote a book called The Feminine Revolution. The idea was that feminine...

All effective digital marketing comes down to one very simple thing: Does your content have a Hook Point? A Hook Point is the unique idea that...

99% of startup founders shouldn’t be startup founders. As an investor, I’ve listened to hundreds and hundreds of startup pitches. I’ve also played an active role...

Entrepreneurship is anchored in creativity. The best entrepreneurs see solutions to problems that haven’t been thought of before. They don’t just notice what something “is,” but...

I have always been a hard worker. Some might call me a high achiever. Others might describe me as an “overdoer.” I spent the first several...

Creativity within big companies is one part vision and two parts sales. This is what makes working within a large enterprise very different compared to working...

I have been drawing and designing things since I was a little kid. I started designing cars and boats when I was eight years old. I...

When we feel off, it’s often because something is out of alignment. It sounds simple (and it is), but what’s simple in life is also complicated....

Despite 2020 being a challenging year, startup funding was hot as ever. According to Crunchbase’s end of the year report, “Startups closed out 2020 in a...

Being a leader, whether you lead a project or run a global organization, is mostly about getting people to work together to achieve a goal. One...

Becoming a “unicorn” in the startup world is the ultimate achievement. The term defines a company that reaches a billion-dollar valuation or more. Uber was a...

Ask anyone who has been spending time on Clubhouse what they think of the social-audio platform and you’ll hear a range of responses: “I have never...

Our careers are very rarely linear. With corporate jobs, laid out neatly in org charts that show layers of management and increasingly ‘senior’ titles, it may...

Remote work had been slowly gaining acceptance for years. But the pandemic has brought about incredible change in the adoption of remote work. It is no...

Formal education didn’t prepare me for the real world. In high school, I attended a very prestigious prep school in San Francisco, called San Francisco University...