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Ballots are due Tuesday, June 30 for the Colorado primary. If yours is still sitting on the kitchen counter, consider this your reminder: vote . Your vote genuinely matters. It’s worth saying again: I’m voting for Phil Weiser for governor. I hope you will too. I laid out the full case last month . The short version hasn’t changed. Phil has the most affirmative, pro-growth vision…
Om Malik passed away this week. He was one of the greats - smart, thoughtful, and kind. He was always willing to engage on an interesting idea or question, but he took his time and thought deeply before weighing in. That combination is rare. He was a wonderful writer and an outstanding photographer. His blog, On my Om , and his photography at Photos by Om , are both worth your time.
The International Economy just put out its latest issue, built around a single question — “Does American Capitalism Need to Be Reimagined?” They posed that question to seventeen economists, historians, and investors. This one was, of course, right up my alley: it’s the core thesis of Capital Evolution. My answer is that the status quo isn’t an option — but neither is a…
Inside the tech world, AI feels like a superpower. Think of it like a language — clunky while you are leaning and then second nature. So much so that you forget how hard it was to learn in the first place. Once you’ve experienced what it can do, the optimism is hard to suppress. Companies are getting built faster. Individual productivity is going up by multiples. Problems that used to…
I’m voting for Phil Weiser in the Democratic primary for Colorado Governor on June 30, and I want to share why. I’ve spent nearly three decades in Colorado working with entrepreneurs and across the innovation ecosystem. This has included working with startups, large companies, main street businesses, and non-profits. I am deeply committed to Colorado — to its people, land, resources,…
I wrote a few weeks ago about being open when you use AI . The argument was straightforward — be honest about when AI is involved, and people will be more comfortable trusting what you send. Lately I’ve been thinking about the flip side of that. The people who see AI where it isn’t. I’ve had a handful of interactions recently — with friends, with people I know well — where…
I use AI a lot. If you’ve been reading this blog, you know that already. A few weeks ago, I wrote about running my business from a terminal window . That post doesn’t do justice to just how much of my business life is managed through iTerm and Claude. And, of course, Brad has been writing about building CompanyOS - the system that powers a lot of this. I’m all in on this stuff,…
There’s no shortage of hype around AI right now. Every pitch deck mentions it. Every company claims to be using it. Every conference has a keynote about how it’s going to change everything. Plenty of hype, but also plenty of real work getting done daily by those truly leveraging the power of AI tools. Like every venture firm, we’ve been deep in this at Foundry. We’ve been…
It’s been about a quarter since Capital Evolution hit the shelves, and I thought it would be worth stepping back to take stock of what Elizabeth and I have been doing to get the book’s ideas out into the world. It’s felt like a lot — and seeing it all written down confirms that is indeed the case! From the start, our goal was to make sure that the ideas in the book — Dynamic…
I’ve been blogging on WordPress for close to twenty years. It’s been a great platform, but I’d been thinking about a change for a while. WordPress had gotten heavier over the years - more plugins, more updates, more things to manage. I wanted something simpler. Something where I could just write in a text file and push it live. Brad recently migrated his blog - Feld Thoughts -…