Customer Acquisition
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An Interview with Ryan Jones About Flighty and Building Apps in 2025
An interview with Ryan Jones about Flighty, my favorite iOS app, and how the App Store has evolved over the last 15 years.
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An Interview with Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes About Atlassian and AI
An interview with Atlassian founder and CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes about building Atlassian and why he is optimistic about AI.
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An Interview with Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg About Turnarounds
An interview with Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg about a career focused on turnarounds, from EA’s KOTR to Zynga and now to Unity.
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Amazon Earnings, AWS and OpenAI, Did Amazon Solve Groceries?
Amazon says the constraint right now is power, not chips; it’s giving plenty of the latter to OpenAI. Then, Amazon solves groceries by getting faster tat delivering everything else.
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An Interview with Asana Founder Dustin Moskovitz about AI, SaaS, and Safety
An interview with Asana founder and Chairman Dustin Moskovitz about Asana, AI’s impact on SaaS, and the debate about AI Safety
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TSMC Earnings; A16 and TSMC’s Approach to Backside Power; Intel Earnings, Architecture, and AI
TSMC and Intel’s approach to backside power are downstream of their cultures: customer-centric versus self-serving. It may doom the latter.
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Nike on Amazon; Nike’s Disastrous Pivot; Inevitability, Intentionality, and Amazon
Nike executed a disastrous pivot over recent years, away from physical retail to D2C. Now they have no choice but to embrace Amazon, but that might be the best thing that could happen to them.
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Nvidia Earnings, Nvidia’s China Argument, NVLink Fusion
Nvidia’s earnings suggest that inference is taking off, but the loss of China is a problem in the long run. Then, Nvidia moves to dominate networking for everyone.
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An Interview with Plaid Founder and CEO Zach Perret About Plumbing Trust
An interview with Plaid co-founder and CEO Zach Perret about building trust as an ingredient brand in financial services.
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Netflix Earnings, Netflix’s Growth Plans, Ads and Price Segmentation
Netflix’s earnings and 2029 goals show new avenues of growth that are downstream from increased segmentation.