America’s AI Ultimatum: Forge Ahead or Fall Behind This week an open letter signed by over 2,000 AI luminaries called for an immediate six-month moratorium on training giant AI systems. We view the letter as a call to arms rather than a cease fire. …

Technology Banking: Anatomy of Systemic Failure and Proposed Remedies A 35 year venture capital industry veteran who has invested through six global financial crises assesses the impact of bank failures in the past week. …

NGP Capital’s second fund produced six unicorns and top quartile returns while navigating significant change at Nokia, its corporate partner. Managing Partner Paul Asel share insights on managing a successful fund over fifteen years across technology, market and partner lifecycles. “The search for innovation needs to be organizationally separate and…

Every second counts in cycling. In 2023 the top racers cycled the Tour de France for 79 hours over three weeks in a race decided by 214 seconds. In the past century, ten Tour de France races have been decided by less than one minute. In Greg LeMond’s thrilling eight…

The Future of Work: Why the Great Resignation is better than Quiet Quitting The pandemic has accelerated the Future of Work as COVID has altered how we work, play, learn and socialize. Many of the changes are welcome. Video calls are an efficient, if imperfect, substitute for in person meetings…

Yesterday, NASA released the first full-color image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). I began writing this article last December when JWST launched as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope and have eagerly awaited the first images from the telescope for the past eight months. The images below…

The Grand Inquisitor — Great Questions Can Improve Both Strategy & Culture Jack Ma applied for thirty jobs and was rejected for all of them. He later said, “I even went to KFC when it came to my city. Twenty-four people went for the job. Twenty-three were accepted. I was…

by Paul Asel Last week was a reawakening of sorts. A four-hour drive for my first in person business meeting since last March seemed a minor inconvenience after a lockdown that included nearly two months of quarantines. The CEO greeted me in the lobby and assured me that all employees…

“Great Groups are not realistic places. They are exuberant, irrationally optimistic ones.” Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman, Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration In the 2008 Summer Olympics, Jason Lezak anchored the gold medal winning US 400-meter freestyle relay team. Winning gold seemed improbable, especially when Jason dove…