Gender mix and Net Promoter check-in: how it’s going

About 5 months ago I started a few projects to fix the gender-mix of my network which was 80/20 male/female. The projects: Monthly Third Thursday Lunch for Women Founders and Rising Stars. When I’m introduced to women, I invite them

Gender mix and Net Promoter check-in: how it’s going

About 5 months ago I started a few projects to fix the gender-mix of my network which was 80/20 male/female. The projects: Monthly Third Thursday Lunch for Women Founders and Rising Stars. When I’m introduced to women, I invite them

Letter from Berkshire’s Omaha Meeting

For the last several years I’ve been a Berkshire shareholder and also attendee at “Woodstock for Capitalism”, the Berkshire Shareholder Meeting in Omaha, NE. What happened this year? It’s always interesting. It’s better in longer form — the news snippets

Letter from Berkshire’s Omaha Meeting

For the last several years I’ve been a Berkshire shareholder and also attendee at “Woodstock for Capitalism”, the Berkshire Shareholder Meeting in Omaha, NE. What happened this year? It’s always interesting. It’s better in longer form — the news snippets

Videos of me speaking for press or conference

Cheddar Amol Sarva, CEO of Knotel, regarding future of office and flexible workspaces December 2017 Bloomberg Technology Knotel CEO Says Company Plans to Expand Internationally August 2017 Columbia Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Design Dr. Amol Sarva – Build More, Build Faster

Videos of me speaking for press or conference

Cheddar Amol Sarva, CEO of Knotel, regarding future of office and flexible workspaces December 2017 Bloomberg Technology Knotel CEO Says Company Plans to Expand Internationally August 2017 Columbia Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Design Dr. Amol Sarva – Build More, Build Faster

Accelerator Awesome coming June 29th

The Work Awesome series continues in June with Accelerator Awesome. Are you a corporate innovation leader? Join us. Email me — [email protected]  

Accelerator Awesome coming June 29th

The Work Awesome series continues in June with Accelerator Awesome. Are you a corporate innovation leader? Join us. Email me — [email protected]  

Equity or Rent?

“Lease –> same effective grant as your vp of engineering ” They are spending $1.3M unnecessarily over 2 years (10k sf x $65/sf) so that by yr 3 they have room to grow for years 4 and 5…  and will have a

Equity or Rent?

“Lease –> same effective grant as your vp of engineering ” They are spending $1.3M unnecessarily over 2 years (10k sf x $65/sf) so that by yr 3 they have room to grow for years 4 and 5…  and will have a

The world needs more robots

There is a population shortage As I had said  As Ruchir of Morgan Stanley has said above  

The world needs more robots

There is a population shortage As I had said  As Ruchir of Morgan Stanley has said above  

Does regulation work *well enough*? >updated<

Controversy this month about privacy in the tech world. Urgent crisis, brewing for 2 decades. Companies are taking all the information about us and using our identities against us. So are state actors and other malicious agents. Headlines! World leaders

Does regulation work *well enough*? >updated<

Controversy this month about privacy in the tech world. Urgent crisis, brewing for 2 decades. Companies are taking all the information about us and using our identities against us. So are state actors and other malicious agents. Headlines! World leaders

What I learned at TED

I went to TED for the first time, bandit-style (to quote Erin Griffith) not invited. What I learned: 1. “Like the talks?” Many civilians don’t know it’s an actual event. 2. The Al Gore/Inconvenient Truth image of the Earth is

What I learned at TED

I went to TED for the first time, bandit-style (to quote Erin Griffith) not invited. What I learned: 1. “Like the talks?” Many civilians don’t know it’s an actual event. 2. The Al Gore/Inconvenient Truth image of the Earth is

My talk at Columbia’s Alleycon conference

7 bad startup ideas ALLEYCON 2018 – Session 2 (Grow) ALLEYCON – Columbia Business School’s flagship technology conference was a one-day event that some people said was “the best conference I have ever been to in my life!” Here’s some

My talk at Columbia’s Alleycon conference

7 bad startup ideas ALLEYCON 2018 – Session 2 (Grow) ALLEYCON – Columbia Business School’s flagship technology conference was a one-day event that some people said was “the best conference I have ever been to in my life!” Here’s some