The match we witnessed yesterday between Rafael Nadal and Daniil Medvedev was a physical and mental competition for the ages. It demonstrated to us in full glory the incredibly productive power of a zero-sum rivalry, the one between Rafa and Roger Federer and the one that...
We are told that our interactions can often be reduced to the first impressions we leave. But first impressions are unlikely to be as powerful as last impressions - our last sensory engagement with someone, whether it's 1-1 in person or in an interview with the media. Those...
We haven’t had much inspiration from experiencing the external world in 2021; even impressions of that world are often just figments of our Instagram or TikTok-fueled imaginations. The urban melange of the weekend brunch, the Sunday a la park, the Newbury Street promenade – were mostly...
Expressionism is a vital artistic and entrepreneurial spirit. It is vibrant, it is unfettered, it is emotional, and it is at once full of eternal angst and electric optimism. Expressionism allows one to visualize a future that isn't chained by reality and, in being thus...
Before COVID hit, I traveled a lot. For the last six months, though, I – like everyone else in the world – have stayed put. From my home base in Boston, I’ve been communicating via phone calls and Zoom meetings, with travel on indefinite hold....
Two massive deals were announced today and both signify rising ambitions of large American tech firms. The Oracle-TikTok arrangement is an unlikely alliance between a staid B2B company and the fastest-growing B2C app at scale. It's the first major domino to fall in the US-China tech...
A couple days ago, Art Samberg passed away. Art was one of the most successful and genuine human beings I knew. He came from nothing, got into MIT, and went on to build one of the world's great investment firms. Art was one of the first...
I would like to play a role in dismantling the institutionalized and systemic racism we have in the US against BIPOC. I have not actively done so to date. While I have invested in Africa, I have not yet invested in companies started by Black...
Last night I watched Abbas Kiarostami's "The Wind Will Carry Us." It left me in a reflective mood, fitting perhaps for the state of the world today and a fitting break from the hectic activities that accompany an economic crisis. Introspection, self examination is the...
It is a topic of debate among venture capitalists: will we write a check without physically meeting an entrepreneur? The true question underlying this debate is: "to what extent can humans convey their 'honest signals' virtually given the tools we currently have at our disposal?" Honest...