Sublime

Some philosophical confusions arise—for both the winner and the prize—when it comes to packaging real people and presenting them as if they were objects to be bid upon and bartered, as if their allotted hours on Earth were more valuable than yours.

By the end of that year, he was one of the most frequently mentioned analysts on Wall Street and the unlikely nemesis of Jeff Bezos and Amazon.

One of the big reasons the story remained in the news for six weeks was that Burke was in constant, almost daily, contact with the news directors of every major national media outlet to make sure the public had all the most up-to-date information.

Titles, pay, and perks should never be your main draw, but that doesn’t mean you should be cheap.

Zappin ran his enterprise from his gut, freewheeling and unscientific, the polar opposite of Google.

People always accused us of selling dollar bills for ninety cents, and said, “Look, anybody can do that and grow revenue.” That’s not what we were doing. We always had positive gross margins. It’s a fixed-cost business. What I could see from the internal metrics was that at a certain volume level, we would cover our fixed costs and the company woul

These days, our very favorite interview question is this one: “What are the open tabs on your browser right now?”

We understand Peter as applying a very serious philosophical and indeed even moral test to people.