Mark Fishman

I don’t want to know about the roadmap, I want to know how we got there. How are we segmenting the market? Where do we play? Where do we want to play? Who do we beat and why? Who do we lose to and why? What is our plan for relevant differentiation, for creating a moat, for sustainable competitive advantage? How are we optimizing each piece of the... See more

Digital platforms used to bring our physical lives online, but now that we have uniquely digital experiences and relationships, we don’t have products that let us successfully bring those offline.

Altogether, America has too much venting and not enough inventing.

Good decisions require lots of quiet time alone in your head, maybe sitting on the couch thinking or going for a walk. It rarely looks like work, which means your coworkers have to trust you when you’re doing it.

But, then, ultimately, we get to this somewhat stark moment of conviction – a decision without certainty but with some level of instinct and belief. The work you’ve done is a big input, but then, I find there’s something else, too. It’s some combination of understanding, excitement, experience, gut, and fear. And this process repeats throughout our... See more

Banks and investors tend to be uncertain about lending to carbon-removal companies that want to build a facility to test their ideas, Ransohoff said. But with an offtake agreement from Frontier, a carbon-removal start-up can prove to a bank that it will have a customer once the facility is up and running.