The Money Tree
I try to not look too closely at The Money Tree. I avoid asking it what it's thinking, why its lowest leaves are yellowing and dropping. I try to erase the...
Pot Brownies for The Employees
I believe the statue of limitations are probably on my side, so I can now admit: Once I cooked up a tray of pot brownies, and then took twenty employees to a...
Went to Raise Venture Capital
Your baby is ugly. Then again, sometimes the process of raising venture capital is, too. Shall we call a spade a spade? Or a shovel a pick? As in 'picks 'n...
A Lesson in Assholery
Of course, it's a dog and it's barking; a little thing, it's yipping or yapping really, on a leash exiting The-Unit-Next-to-the-One-That's-Soon-to-be-Ours....
Went To Crypto Conference
Saw a bro eat breadsticks like they were securities. Also $SATAN was there. It's satire, unless you were there…then it's a documentary. There's a Crypto Bro...
Office Snacks
Recently we hired a new senior executive who exclaimed, "golly gee, oh my," when she saw the bins of snacks in our office; she then grabbed fistfuls of...
The Founding of The Flipside, Part VI (Final Chapter)
"There's a right way to do things and a wrong way to do things. And we're going to do it the right way." This wasn't a request. This wasn't a suggestion....
Celebrity Cheat Codes
Do you think when Jeff Bezos has a credit card dispute, he jangles the 800#? Do you think he presses 1 then #, then confirms, ‘English’; then listens...
The Founding of The Flipside, Part V
Disappointment. Frustration. Betrayal. Abandonment. And, mostly, seething, brutal, unfettered anger. I guess it could have gone worse. But it certainly -...
The End of Intelligent.ly
What happened with Intelligent.ly? Oh you wanna know? Do you really wanna know? Sure sure, I can write about it, but there may be grounds for a (moderately...
The Founding of The Flipside, Part IV
Tony seems uncharacteristically sleepy; he's awake, but certainly not himself, and is slightly slurring in response to some of our Board slides. And this is...
The Gelves
Larry, Barry & Gary were Gelves. Creatures of rarified air, like Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy or the Easter Bunny. Larry, Barry and Gary mostly arrived at...
The Founding of The Flipside, Part III
The Founding of The Flipside, Part III (Reading part I and part II first recommended)*** Let it be known that it is fully acceptable to apply an armbar to...
The Founding of The Flipside, Part II
Before you read, if you haven’t read part 1, it may be useful to start there. It’s short, I promise. And pretty good. That I only pinky swear. ***** The...
The Road Trip
The summer after college, my best buddy Adam and I drove nearly 8,000 miles across North America - which nearly ended our friendship forever. When we ran out...
The Founding of The Flipside, Part I
Hi folks,People have asked if I’d send my latest pieces via email so, well, here you have it. Lucky you. If you’ve received this I’ve emailed you or you’ve...