Uncontrolled Personal AI Agents Threaten Enterprise Security
Shadow IT just got a major upgrade. Employees are deploying "Personal Agents" with zero oversight, handing over enterprise credentials to unverified 3rd-party plugins. Are you ready for the fallout? Full story here: https://t.co/KfaNBOyWmm #CIO #CISO #AI #Agentic #Cybersecurity #RSAC2026
CEO Cuts 20% Staff, Stock Jumps 8% Today
When the CEO lays off 20% of the workforce and the stock jumps 8% by close
Only Two of Three Oil, Fed, Inflation Scenarios Can Occur
The market is pricing in three things simultaneously: • Oil stays above $100 • Fed cuts rates • Inflation falls to 2% You can have two. Not all three. If oil wins → stagflation. If Fed capitulates → dollar collapses. If demand craters → recession. Every...
US May Abandon Hormuz, Destroy Iran’s Oil Infrastructure
Here is what I think will happen if USA can't keep strait of Hormuz open - I do think that USA will have a very low threshold for pain in the Gulf because Trump is elected on avoiding 'forever wars'....
Warflation: Unnamed Economic Threat Looms Ahead
The word warflation does not appear in any economics textbook. But it is the most accurate word for what is coming.
Airlines Face $400M March Fuel Surge, Higher Fares
"Global airlines sounded the alarm ... over soaring jet fuel prices triggered by the US-Israeli war against Iran, warning of hundreds of millions of extra costs, higher fares and cuts to some routes." Delta fuel costs up by $400mn for March...
Native Security Secures Cloud with Unified Policy Controls
Announcing the Series A of Native Security (https://t.co/w7e6BeMXxj) which we (Ballistic Ventures) led. The latest greatest thing to happen to cloud security. Set policy intent and have it translated to native controls in all the major clouds. Exactly what I wanted...
Tie Project Changes to Business Value, Not Tech
Ensure project success by tying changes to business value, not just tech. Start by addressing identified pain points and bottlenecks to boost effectiveness and efficiency. #BusinessValue #ProjectManagement https://t.co/0JEGLhuWkE
Redesign Entry Roles, Pair Talent with AI for Apprenticeships
RT If genAI handles the grunt work, how can leaders develop an apprenticeship model? Leaders must: (1) Redesign Level-1 roles, (2) Pair talent with AI agents, (3) Make learning and reflection explicit, not accidental. #AI #Hiring #CIO #CHRO @Star_CIO https://t.co/W7YbwP6jrL
Closing Hormuz Guarantees Outcome; Only Duration Matters
Keep Hormuz closed long enough and it is a mathematical and logistical certainty. The only debate is "How long is 'long enough' to make that happen?"
Practical Frameworks to Boost Employee Experience and Performance
EMPLOYEE UNDERSTANDING - CX Journey™ https://t.co/v5jjZIjGrK This #book gives you practical frameworks and real-world guidance to transform your #employeeexperience in ways that actually impact performance, retention, and customer success. https://t.co/bzntWiCx5O
Higher Oil Prices Trigger Demand Collapse, Recession, Fed Cuts
Actually Higher Oil Prices, cause Demand destruction that causes recession that causes Fed to cut
Oil Hitting $125 Could Reshape Global Economy
Oil prices climbing to $125 could shift the global economic outlook – Morgan Stanley’s Seth Carpenter @seekingalpha https://t.co/W6t7v236nu
Founders Must Cut B‑Players to Kill Mediocrity
Your most important job as a founder: eliminate mediocrity. And here's my favorite quote on this from Frank Slootman: -- "Mediocrity is the silent killer. Organizations are not getting killed by their C players. Everybody knows who they are, and performance eventually is...
Hire Humans for Judgment, AI for Execution
The hiring manager's dilemma: Claude Max costs $200/month A junior analyst costs $60K/year Both can write reports, analyze data, and respond to emails. Only one complains about work-life balance. The real question every founder should ask: "What am I paying humans to do that only...
Labor Market Contracts Despite Positive Three‑month Average
Feb payrolls: -92K. Three-month average: +6K/month. The labor market isn't softening. It's contracting. And the Fed can't cut because oil won't let them. $SPY $TLT https://t.co/RVUtPtl388
Stop Micromanaging Meta Ads; Let Algorithm Learn
The operators losing money on Meta aren't spending too little. They're touching the account too much. What a $50K+/month account actually looks like: 1-3 campaigns max ↓ Broad audiences only (no manual targeting) ↓ 6-10 creative variants per ad set ↓ CBO at...
Founders Must Own Storytelling; Strategy Can't Be Delegated
The story has to come from the founder. This frustrates people. Founders want to delegate storytelling the same way they delegate other functions. Hire a head of marketing and let them own it. Bring in a communications expert and hand...
Cook's Loyalty Fuels Investor Confidence in Apple
Thrilled to hear Cook’s update that he “can’t imagine life without Apple”, and has no plans to step down. As an $AAPL investor, I can’t imagine owning the stock without Cook.
Stocks Held Until Oil Surge Triggered 2022 Inflation Sell‑off
The equity market was "resilient" at the start of the Russia-Ukraine war as well...it took five weeks of high oil prices before stocks started to capitulate to inflation pressures in 2022. https://t.co/CXaKnBXbHv
Teach Your Team an Infinite Mindset in 90 Minutes
The leaders who stay calm when everything shifts have something in common. They think differently. We built a workshop taught by our Master Trainers to show your whole team how. 90 minutes. Up to 300 people. An Infinite Mindset that...
Give Ads 3‑4
I've analysed 500+ ad accounts. Here's the pattern: Accounts that killed ads after 24 hours never found winners. Accounts that let ads run 3-4 days found scalable campaigns. Your assumption that you should kill losers fast is wrong. You need...
GStack Automates Role‑specific Review Tracking for Startups
New innovation: Just as at a well-run startup, there are CEO, engineering manager and design reviews, GStack now helps you keep track of what reviews are run, figures out what is appropriate (e.g. CEO doesn't have to look at infra...
Predict VC Hires by Tracking Fund Launch Cycles
Not many people think about this but there's actually an insanely strategic way to get ahead of open VC roles and it's by tracking fund lifecycles. Firms hire at new fund launches. If you can predict those new fund launches, you...
Welcoming Our New Team Member to Zendesk
Today we've onboarded our latest team member to Zendesk.
Productivity Now Means Orchestrating AI, Not Coding Faster
We measure productivity wrong. Lines of code written, tickets closed, hours logged, typing speed. All metrics built for a world where humans do the work themselves. That world is ending. When everyone on your team has an agentic workforce of...
AI Rep Wins President’s Club, Works From Hawaii
We sent our best salesperson to Hawaii for a week. First class, Grand Wailea, all expenses paid. He still had to work, but he's AI, so he doesn’t have feelings/say in the matter. Adam Bot has been at RB2B for 6...
AI Email Hyper-Personalization: Myth or Misused Time?
Do we really live in a world of AI email marketing hyper-personalisation? ... being as I've run a podcast for over 9 years and have interviewed over 650 people, maybe not? - Why are people still wasting out time like...
Due Diligence Starts with People, Not Paperwork
Before you ever open a 200-page PPM, real diligence starts somewhere else. You have to vet the people behind the deal. Talk to past investors. Understand their track record. See how they communicate when things go right, and wrong. Documents matter, but trust is built...
Audit Your Day: Stop Firefighting, Build Scalable Engines
There's a specific kind of exhaustion that comes from being busy on the wrong things. Being stuck in tasks that don't compound is one of the worst things that can happen to a founder/CEO. Before I stepped down as CEO, I tracked...
Earn a VC’s Yes by Protecting Their Reputation
A VC’s job is to say yes. The ones who say yes are betting their reputation on you. Make it easy for them to believe.
Reliable Iran War Sources Still Hold Up After Two Weeks
My list of accounts to follow for quality information about the Iran war and Strait of Hormuz holds up two weeks later… 👇👇
Start with Perfect‑fit Prospects, Skip Early Experimentation
Founders: Your first 50 prospects should be your perfect fit: - Right size - Right pain - Right geography - Right tech - Right budget Save experimentation for later prospects.
Brand Becomes a Moat Only After Other Moats
Is brand a real moat? You can’t build a brand moat without having other moats first. So it can’t be an initial moat. But once you have a trusted brand then it becomes a moat itself. And might be the most powerful...
Own the TV OS, Control the Consumer Journey
"there is tremendous power in owning a consumer’s journey from the moment he or she powers up the TV, to the content that’s displayed, to what they end up watching." “If I were David Ellison, I would have bought Roku,” Greenfield...
Expect Tomorrow's EZ Inflation Forecasts to Surprise Markets
Have sense that the floodgates will open on EZ inflation forecasts tomorrow. We have been updating daily since last week with the final HICPs from the individual countries, and I still think we're behind the curve ahead of the numbers...
China Adopts US‑style Economic Coercion as America Wanes
China learned economic coercion from the best, as I wrote with Adam Szubin in this coauthored 2023 essay in @ForeignAffairs: https://t.co/fsxpb7Zusb
80% of Local Pack Listings Missing Call Buttons
Focus on Local? Watch those call buttons... -> Are Local Packs Losing Their Call Buttons? From the study: "Out of 2,580 results we checked, just 510 had a call button. That's a 19.8% call button rate. If you search for a local...
Pending Home Sales Rise, Yet Mortgage Rates Surge Past 6.3%
Pending Home Sales Ticked Up from Record Low. But Now Mortgage Rates Spiked Back over 6.3%. Home sales in February, as feeble as they were, benefitted from the lowest mortgage rates in years. Those rates are now gone https://t.co/2mll3eAbGK https://t.co/lVfYXLQXRz
Incremental Attribution Cuts CPM 68% and Boosts Reach
A compelling case for more Incremental Attribution in your ad accounts. Maybe. I know many people are concerned with driving access to more NEW CUSTOMERS on meta. In a test across 13 accounts we found that IA campaigns delivered a 68% average...
High CAPE Drives Equity Issuance; Low CAPE Spurs Buying
This is really great: "shows CAPE on the horizontal axis and net issuance on the vertical axis. Each point represents a calendar month between January 1990 and November 2025. Notice the positive correlation between issuance and CAPE: When CAPE is high,...
Grievance Processes May Be Fueling Workplace Conflict
Are your grievance procedures escalating workplace conflict? @HRZone https://t.co/wBFYIYUrlB #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
IBM Acquires Confluent to Power Real‑time Enterprise AI
.@IBM Completes Acquisition of Confluent, Making Real Time Data the Engine of Enterprise AI and Agents https://t.co/QqwqJPCT4P >> Congrats. A key augmentation for the IBM AI capabilities. Good news for customers. #NextGenApps https://t.co/aCKH7wuesW
Pakistan Faces Highest Energy Risk if Hormuz Closes
Pakistan looks like the Asian energy importer that is most at risk because of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. More at today's Chartbook Top Links: https://t.co/7rDXmrxVqy
Twin Brothers Bootstrapped Apparel to $110M in Six Years
There’s a guy in Hampton who bootstrapped a lifestyle apparel company to 9-figures with his twin brother. Alec Todd and his bro started with just $3k. Started Cove Apparel in Jan 2020. 2025: $38M in revenue, 22% EBITDA 2026: on track to...
Operational Chaos Is Fueling Founder Anxiety
Most founders would never admit this, but they've had panic attacks or anxiety episodes because they're stuck to the business. How much is the ops chaos costing you?
Greece, Eurogroup Discuss Energy Shock’s Economic Impact
Very good meeting with Greece's Minister of Economy & Finance Kyriakos @Pierrakakis, the President of the Eurogroup, at IEA HQ in Paris We discussed recent developments in energy markets amid the war in the Middle East and the potential economic implications...
CIO
CIOs face pressure to go beyond AI POCs and deliver ROI while avoiding the risk of rogue AI. #CIO #AI https://t.co/IkMrUQXpxe
German Investor Confidence Crashes Amid Iran War
Hello from Germany, where investor confidence plummets on the Iran war. An expectations index by the ZEW institute decreased to -0.5 in March from 58.3 in Feb. That’s below all estimates in a Bloomberg survey, which had foreseen a reading...
Markets Ignore FOMC; Dot Plot and Language Drive Moves
The FOMC meets this week but no one's paying attention. Markets are focused on geopolitics, not rate decisions. Here's what actually matters: the dot plot, the statement language, and the three scenarios that could move markets.