Tag: business strategy

• SoftBank Bet Big on Disruptive Companies. Many Have Not Paid Off.

  September 27, 2019

  Anyone who has taken an Uber, sent a Slack message or enjoyed a free beer at a WeWork owes a little something to Masayoshi Son. Through his Japanese conglomerate SoftBank… more ›

• The 13 craziest slides that show SoftBank’s vision for the next 300 years

  September 27, 2019

  In June 2010, the richest man in Japan revealed his latest vision for the next 30 years and the next 300 years. Masayoshi Son, the chairman and CEO of tech… more ›

• Who Really Attacked Saudi Arabia?

  September 22, 2019

  We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. By using our website and our… more ›

• Why Goyard Remains Fashion’s Most Mysterious Luxury Brand

  September 15, 2019

  In 1854, Louis Vuitton was founded in Paris. Thanks in large part to its popular LV monogram, it eventually became the world’s most valuable luxury brand, with more than 460… more ›

• How Much of the New American Songbook Will Be Sung in Spanish?

  September 14, 2019

  Is it really possible that today’s Latino musicians will be remembered primarily via the dude from Matchbox Twenty? Slate’s New American Songbook, a project dedicated to predicting which songs from… more ›

• Neuralink & Brain Interfaces, TikTok, FaceApp, iHeartRadio

  September 11, 2019

  By a16z Introducing our new podcast, 16 Minutes, a short news podcast where we cover the top headlines of the week, the a16z podcast way — why are these topics… more ›

• The 5-minute design brief

  August 18, 2019

  My goal here is to suggest a better way to write a design brief. By better, I mean, can we ask questions that will give us a better outcome. Five… more ›

• Jeff Bezos and the United States of Amazon

  July 29, 2019

  In 1994, Jeff Bezos founded Amazon, the company that has since made him the richest man in the world. Julia Carrie Wong charts the company’s success and controversies. Plus: Jim… more ›

• Paradigm Shifts

  July 21, 2019

  Identify the paradigm you’re in, examine if and how it is unsustainable, and visualize how the paradigm shift will transpire when that which is unsustainable stops. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/paradigm-shifts-ray-dalio more ›

• Strategy

  July 20, 2019

  I’ve spent 25 years thinking about what happens when organisations and services meet the internet. Someone doing due dilligence on a company I advise called me on that claim recently,… more ›