You double down in a recession, that’s when you invest, that’s your opportunity to pull ahead of your competitors. Eleven years ago, during the dot com crash, Apple was not the company it is today. Michael Dell said the corporation should be liquidated and the proceeds returned to the shareholders. Windows was dominant and there […]

We all want to participate, we all want to play. Life is a game, it’s the essence of social. Something that the music business doesn’t understand. The music business holds its audience in contempt. It’s the fans who are stealing, who are taking money from the artists’ pockets, you’ve got to be wary of fans, […]

I went to lunch with Jeff Gold. Starting out at Rhino Records, Jeff graduated to assisting Gil Friesen at A&M to replacing Jeff Ayeroff as head of creative services to ultimately replacing Jeff again at Warner Brothers. He had a Moon Man in his office, and an inkjet printer long before they became the standard, […]

The inefficiency is you. What private equity does is find businesses, invest in them, and then overpay the executives to help them eradicate inefficiencies in the system, so both can get richer. The executives are beholden to the stakeholders, not those working for them. This is why you’ve worked so hard and lost your job. […]