Rockefeller, Bill Gates and Larry Ellison, were all justifiably reviled at various points in their careers. When I began my work in computing, Microsoft was routinely referred to as “the Evil Empire.” Whatever you may think of Uber, it is hard to deny its impact on the economy....
To answer if leadership is important to business, I would have to sayleadership is essential toeveryhuman endeavor worth doing. Leadership is essential from the top, down, across, and within. If the body (that is, the business) moves in acoordinated fashiontowards the vision; and customers r...
thus, many cannot and will not be able to get approved for a home loan due to high student loan debt. It’s a vicious cycle. If one chooses to be an entrepreneur, it can literally take a decade to see any substantial success.
The achievability of universal 100% renewability is similarly contentious. Cities such as Burlington, Vermont, have been "100% renewable" for years. But these cities often have small populations, occasionally still rely on fossil fuel energy and have significant renewable resources at their immediate ...
Netscape, or more precisely, Netscape Navigator, was one of the most significant internet applications in the history of the web. It was launched by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark. Having built a highly innovative product and having no real competition back in 1995, the company was evaluated at...
moved him and the family to the nearby neighborhood of Roxborough so he could attend a better school. It was obvious, one coach said, she "loved that young man" and was "going to do what was right." Even today she is one of the few who has signi...
Most MBA programs devote a significant part of their curriculum to team case studies or business simulations. I worked on teams that included CFOs, food scientists, advertising execs, etc., and often learned more than I did in the formal classroom bit. As with any other pursuit, the value ...
“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” ~Bill Gates ...
If those who think ASI is inevitable on Earth are correct, it means that a significant percentage of alien civilizations who reach human-level intelligence should likely end up creating ASI. And if we’re assuming that at least some of those ASIs would use their intelligence to expand outward...
Bill Gates has compared AI to nuclear energy, for example —callingboth technologies “promising and dangerous” in a 2019 speech. More recently, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s dramatic departure and return to his company last yearreportedly stemmed from boardroom concernsover profit-chasing at the e...