Alternatives are not a single “better” category. They are different tools, each with a specific way it earns returns and a specific way it can hurt you. If you’ve built wealth mostly through public stocks and bonds, alternatives can feel like a locked door with a lot of confident people on the other side. The […]
Returns usually come from a small set of repeatable engines, not the story around the company. Look for evidence of pricing power, improving unit economics, retention and expansion, and distribution efficiency, because those are the levers that turn growth into durable value. If you can’t point to which engine is doing the work and verify […]
Why Reg A+ offerings can turn “private-market patience” into a clearer, more trackable path for everyday investors. Reg A+ gets introduced as a bridge between private and public markets, but its simpler function is a way for growing companies to raise significant capital openly, with a disclosure package that investors can actually follow. That […]
In fast adoption cycles, the biggest loss is not missing the winner. It is missing the weeks when a new edge is still learnable. The easiest way to misunderstand a missed investment opportunity is to treat it like a single moment you failed to act. You did not buy. You sold too soon. You ignored […]
AI is not replacing dealmakers, but it is rewiring how targets are found, vetted, priced, and defended in 2025. The modern M&A process starts the same way it always has. Someone believes one company should buy another, and a small group of people works to support that idea. What sets today apart is how quickly […]
How internal tools moved from engineering afterthought to strategic leverage. The first sign that something had changed was not a new programming language or a popular open source library. It was a slide in a board meeting. Alongside revenue, margins, and churn, a fourth chart showed up: deployment frequency and DevEx score. The message was […]
How everyday professionals are using AI to create outsized opportunity A Shift Hiding in Plain Sight The first wave of internet millionaires consisted of people who saw the value of leverage before everyone else. They understood that software could grow faster than labor, and those who took action early gained the most. A similar situation […]
The real signals behind the coming wave of AI IPOs The Pressure Behind the Pipeline After nearly two years of private investment in artificial intelligence, public markets are starting to take notice. Investors are no longer just focused on model companies or chip makers. They are looking at the entire ecosystem: compute marketplaces, enterprise AI […]
How one person can now run what once took an entire company. The New Scale of One Across industries, the nature of ambition is changing. Where large companies once needed hundreds of employees and many layers of management, a new model is emerging. This model is the “solo conglomerate”: a single operator managing multiple ventures […]
How compute power became the newest financial asset in the AI economy. The Invisible Commodity Training the latest generative-AI models costs billions, not millions. By mid-2025, leading labs reported that compute budgets had surged, driven by rising demand for high-performance GPUs and data-center scale-up. For example, CoreWeave signed a five-year contract worth US $11.9 billion […]
Why companies are no longer “testing” artificial intelligence — they’re building on it. There’s a quiet change in the language of corporate strategy and the business world is taking notice. A year ago, executives spoke about pilots. Today, they talk about platforms. According to McKinsey & Company’s 2025 State of AI Survey, 88% of organizations […]