Juan Orbea

Not to mention people's capacity to study more as an attempt to improve how "smart" they were was virtually futile.

Big, life-altering decisions matter so much more than the decisions we make every day, and they're also the most difficult: where to live, whom to marry, what to believe, whether to start a company, how to end a war. There's no one-size-fits-all approach for addressing these kinds of conundrums.

While Adobe has positioned itself as a leader in building software for professional designers, Canva set out to position its product as the go-to solution for everybody else.

Everything that has occurred in Silicon Valley in the last couple of decades also occurred in the 1850s. Anyone who thinks that wild-ass high tech venture capitalism is a late-20th-century California phenomenon needs to read about the maniacs who built the first transatlantic cable projects. The only things that have changed since then are that the... See more