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ServiceTitan Burned $170 Million in Cash in 2022 Stripe Burned Through More Than $500 Million in Cash Last Year Those were two headlines in The Information this morning. This reminds me a little of the late ’90s, when everyone was burning through cash. Eventually, you burn through all your cash and you shut down. Or […]

Reading this story about Bari Weiss in the Times of London reinforces my belief that a lot of what is in politics and media today is about people making a living. Everyone is trying to find an audience and monetize the audience. I haven’t figured out how to do that. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bari-weiss-the-queen-of-free-speech-and-anti-woke-warrior-9369xb3fk

Companies all over the world are trying to sort this out. Once it became obvious three years ago that business could proceed from home, and once employees started working from home, the genie was kind of out of the bottle. Some CEOs are really unhappy with a WFH workforce. Some of this is because it

https://morningconsult.com/2024-gop-primary-election-tracker/ Surveys show that around 47% of Republicans support Donald Trump for the nomination and the rest support other candidates. Ron DeSantis is coming in at around a third of the surveyed Republicans. This indicates that a narrow majority of Republicans want someone else as their 2024 nominee besides Trump. DeSantis’ strategy is simple. He

https://www.starnewsonline.com/story/news/local/2023/02/16/officials-push-forward-with-wilmington-harbor-deepening-project/69881068007/ This story says that Savannah takes in 5.9 million containers a year, compared to around 300,000 in Wilmington. Savannah, Charleston and Norfolk have deeper channels than Wilmington, which is trying to get a dredging project through the corps. It may be the end of the decade. From the story: “And the Georgia port, like

I can’t pinpoint when we started going to conferences and conventions and symposiums in person again. For a while, nothing was in person, and then some things were, and now a lot of them. Remote work is possible, but it really is hard to have large gatherings remotely. And it is really hard to have

California has been losing population, 500,000 the last couple of years. NC has gained 259,000 during this time. I think one problem is housing. I remember driving around San Jose around 25 years ago, and looking at neighborhoods that were like 900-square-foot tract housing dating probably from the 1950s and ’60s. They were going for

During the myFutureNC conference last week, a video was shown that illustrated the leaky education-to-workforce pipeline. Anthony Jackson, superintendent of Chatham County schools, appeared in the video with 100 of his students, meant to represent 100 North Carolina 9th graders. As he recited some numbers, students started walking out of the video. He started with 100.

Networks have been paying top dollar for sports programming. Salaries and expenses at all levels of sports have gone up accordingly. And yet, the source of all this money was the humble cable customer. Millennials increasingly are making the music stop. The whole business model of cable sports was predicated on captive cable customers. The

The question facing Gov. Ron DeSantis is how much to mix it up with Donald Trump. Trump is coming after DeSantis with hammer and tongs, as is his usual style. DeSantis hasn’t formally announced for the GOP nomination, but it looks like he is running. Sooner or later he is going to have to fight