Max Beauroyre
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Max Beauroyre
The moment you stop believing in the corporate fiction is the moment you can start using it. Once you see it as infrastructure rather than identity, as a resource rather than a calling, everything shifts.
Here are eight imperatives—all of them drawing strength and sustenance from the humanities:
- We need a way of defining and pursuing progress that doesn’t reduce that concept to something that only comes from a digital device.
- We desperately need access to values and wisdom that aren’t corrupted by the relentless financial metrics and imposed
Ted Gioia • The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College
Finance is the nervous system of the company. Everything that a business does flows through finance in some way, and no department has a better bird’s-eye view into how the company operates.
The data that the finance team has is extremely valuable for AI. The data generated by financial transactions - what companies are buying, how much they're... See more
The data that the finance team has is extremely valuable for AI. The data generated by financial transactions - what companies are buying, how much they're... See more
Ramp and the AI Opportunity
Capital’s founding insight, which Jordi laid out on our first call in early 2021, was that you might be able to solve the fintech CAC problem if you started out looking a lot more like a media business.
I interviewed two people I respect a lot about this, and the conversation kept circling back to the same place: we have to prepare people. Reskilling isn’t enough. The problem is not just jobs, it’s what happens to purpose and meaning when work disappears. If we erase the first step of the ladder, we can’t just tell people to climb harder.
build a media business focused on founders, monetize through financial services.
When people can’t move, neither can labor, families, or fertility. There’s a new study showing that housing costs account for about half the US fertility decline between 2000 and 2020. It’s childcare too - a new paper from Abigail Dow reports that a 10% increase in the price of childcare leads to a 5.7% decrease in the birth rate