In January of 2015, I took the subway to work in Manhattan to quit my job as director of #innovation at Bloomberg. I grew up in NYC during the 1980s and ‘90s, when the city was a hellhole - but that was the scariest subway ride of my life.

This Week, the canned water brand Liquid Death released “Greatest Hates” an 80s themed hair metal album in which they turned their detractors’ comments into music videos. “F**k Satan. F**k Whoever Started This” Is the lead track on the album, set to a reenactment of the Salem Witch Trial.

Before Bobbie Shrivastav co-founded Docsmore and Benekiva, two of the fastest-growing enterprise tech #startups in the United States, her department’s director stood in the doorway of her North Carolina office and glared at her. “Why is your office door always locked?” he demanded to know.

It was 3am, the first week of 2022, and Rama K. Penta lay awake in a hotel room in Las Vegas, ruminating over a very big decision: should he quit his job?

In 1999 the mother of Anthony Bourdain, a 44 year-old, recovering heroin addict, chef at Les Halles brasserie in lower Manhattan, sent David Remnick, executive editor at The New Yorker, a manuscript written by her son entitled, “Don’t Eat Before Reading This.”

The most dangerous misinformation about #entrepreneurs is the myth of the dorm room startup. The reality is that the most successful entrepreneurs are over the age of 50, spent the first half of their career in executive leadership inside the Fortune 500

The innovation economy swings from FOMO to F U Pay Me every 10-15 years. When that shift happens it can be brutal for entrepreneurs.

Here’s how to navigate it.

Punks & Pinstripes, with LeadGenius analyzed over 5,000 #AI people working at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citi, and Wells Fargo, to determine who’s winning the war for AI Talent on Wall St?

I spent six years as a bank analyst on #wallstreet, and in 2006 was the first person to publicly predict the 2008 financial crisis. #siliconvalleybank isn’t my first #bank crisis rodeo. I dusted off my bank analysis playbook for this article.

Oh, how I wish #svb #CEO Greg Becker would bypass his lawyers and write an OpEd in the The Wall Street Journal with a headline like, “I screwed up and it’s all my fault.”

Chris Burggraeve is a good guy, who used to be the #CMO of AB InBev. He believes that a brand needs a ‘galactic’ mission to be viable in today’s economy. By Galactic, he literally means companies should be thinking about their brand in space. I like Chris, and was always open to it, but I never fully bought into it.

Until now.

‘Disruption’ is the most weaponized word in business. I never bought it. It always struck me as an empty scare tactic. “If you don’t invest in this, ‘Disruption’ will kill you."

These 25 questions will cut through BS in any conversation.