How Facebook Has Exposed the Fragile State of Australian DemocracyLast Wednesday, in response to the Australian Parliament passing the News Media Bargaining Code, Facebook decided it wanted out. Rather…Feb 23, 20213Feb 23, 20213
Australia’s Proposed “Fox News Tax”“Google’s threat to withdraw its search engine from Australia is chilling to anyone who cares about democracy.”Jan 25, 202111Jan 25, 202111
Intel’s Disruption is Now Complete“Look, Clayton, I’m a busy man and I don’t have time to read drivel from academics but someone you told me you had this theory… and I’m…Nov 11, 202022Nov 11, 202022
Published inMarkerA Final Lesson From Clayton Christensen‘Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.’Jan 31, 20207Jan 31, 20207
Why Did SAP Just Spend $8bn on Qualtrics?The Qualtrics acquisition by SAP represents the third largest sale of any SaaS company in history. One of the largest players in…Nov 16, 20182Nov 16, 20182
Winning the War versus Winning the PeaceThe New Yorker’s profile on Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook was fascinating reading — if you missed the last few years on Facebook, it’s an…Sep 18, 2018Sep 18, 2018
What the F*** Was Facebook Thinking?2013 saw one of the world’s most publicized data breaches. A Target employee inadvertently clicked on a phishing email; soon after, the…Mar 21, 201834Mar 21, 201834
Technology has Become WaterThere are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says…Jun 17, 201716Jun 17, 201716
Prioritizing Economics is Crippling the U.S. Economy“It is often assumed that an economy of private enterprise has an automatic bias toward innovation, but this is not so. It has a bias only…Apr 13, 201760Apr 13, 201760
Founders and MotivationThere’s something about Facebook that I’ve always found troubling. For regular listeners of Exponent, the podcast that Ben Thompson and I…Feb 27, 2017Feb 27, 2017
