An Interview with Deel Co-Founder and CEO Alex Bouaziz

An interview with Deel co-founder and CEO Alex Bouaziz about Deel’s growth, business model, the impact of COVID, having to get good at terminations, and the power of founder-market fit, plus the larger trends in terms of remote work and its long-term implications that Deel’s model takes advantage of.

The Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession

Tech is increasingly divorced from the real economy thanks to the COVID hangover and Apple’s App Tracking Transparency

Musk’s Twitter Blue; A Twitter Subscription, Revisited; Apple Earnings

Elon Musk’s Twitter Blue proposal seems reasonable, and the company is not in as dire financial straits as reported. Then, revisiting the idea of a Twitter business model pivot, and why Apple’s services revenue is so impressive.

AI Bundling Follow-Up, iPhone Follow-Up

Follow-up to AI Bundling, including costs, the meaning of distribution, and centralization, and why Apple is still a product company.

The Services iPhone

Apple introduced some impressive product updates; the real news, though, were the prices, which suggested that Apple is fully embracing being a services company.

An Interview With Brex Co-Founder and Co-CEO Pedro Franceschi

An interview with Brex co-founder and co-CEO Pedro Franceschi about what makes Brex unique, why it is pushing into software, and what drove its decision to cut off a big portion of its customer base.