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Will I regret leaving Manifold?

Dalzell’s arrival that summer had a big ripple effect, and it magnified the growing anxieties of Shel Kaphan. Before the IPO, Bezos had taken his original partner for a walk, told him the company needed deeper technical management, and then asked him to become chief technology officer of Amazon. It sounded like a promotion, but in reality Kaphan

Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

Step 11‐S: If Still Stuck—Terminate or Minimize Your Investment Despite their importance to you, all projects were not meant to be. It

Peter Block • Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used

Subsequent bets in oil and energy were disasters, resulting in billions in writeoffs. GE stock fell from $40 in 2007 to $7 by 2018. Blame placed on CEO Jeff Immelt—who ran the company since 2001—was immediate and harsh.

Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness

Salorix, Bangalore based data analytics startup, that said no to Google search shuts operations

economictimes.indiatimes.com

The app has categories of conversations including “Return to Office,” “Work From Home,” “COVID-19,” “Layoffs,” and “Job Openings.” A March 2020 post at the start of the pandemic titled “Companies NOT doing WFH” asks users to “name and shame” companies without a work from home policy, garnering 58,400 views and 1,449 comments. Two years later,... See more

Fadeke Adegbuyi • Blind Ambition

I think Yahoo is smarter now about dealing with startups than they were then. We were one of the first companies they bought, and I think the idea was, back then, that what you should do with an acquisition is "integrate" it, in the same way that a sugar cube becomes integrated with your tea. We basically got dissolved within Yahoo, and all the

Jessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

Desti To Shut Down On Sept 3, Following Nokia HERE Acquisition

Aman Jain valuewalk.com

From 2012, to 2016, to 2020, google bled an incredible amount of key talent

I think that was kinda known in the valley, but not sure any media really covered it

Honestly a lot of the blame goes to Larry Page for turning the company toward G+, pushing top people toward Gundotra, the product failing quite badly, and Larry stepping back as CEO

My view of... See more