Paul Kedrosky Presentation on Venture Capital and Catastrophism

I am a big fan of Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed blog. He's clearly a data junkie, finds some remarkable pieces of data and representations of them, and makes some great, non-intuitive connections across different data sets and applications.

While I did not attend his speech yesterday in San Francisco, I did pick up this very interesting and very topical set of slides off his blog.

If you go to Slideshare, you can see a bit of of the (very necessary) voice-over in the comments. I love the slides on venture returns, the increasingly correlation of hedge-fund strategies, the dearth of .400 hitters in baseball, and the examples of Web 2.0 collaboration and communication during the Southern California fires.

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Audio From My Exit Five CMO Leadership Retreat Presentation

Just a quick post to highlight that Exit Five has published the audio from my presentation at their recent leadership retreat. The presentation was entitled How To Be the CMO Everyone Wants To Work With, and the audio is about an hour long. Exit Five founder Dave Gerhardt published it

On the Socially Acceptable Use of AI in Business

There's a question I've been mulling for a while now, and I think it's time to write it down: when is it okay to use generative AI in a given business context, and when does it cross a line? I'll focus on

The Odd Little Book All Founders Should Read On Selling Their Company

I recently read The Magic Box Paradigm by Ezra Roizen. It's self-published, was first released in 2016 [1] , and you won't find it on most startup reading lists. The writing is uneven and inconsistent. The metaphors are weird. There are too many TLAs (three-letter acronyms). Nevertheless,

Be the CMO Everyone Wants to Work With

I'm a big fan of Dave Gerhardt and the Exit Five marketing community he has built. While I have always liked the idea of peer-networking communities, I think they change from vitamin to painkiller in times of rapid change. Why? Because the playbooks haven't been written

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Audio From My Exit Five CMO Leadership Retreat Presentation

On the Socially Acceptable Use of AI in Business

The Odd Little Book All Founders Should Read On Selling Their Company

Be the CMO Everyone Wants to Work With