photo courtesy Peter Lindberg   When I was 21 years old, having just graduated from college, I set off on an adventure. I went overland across Central Asia, from London to Kathmandu. Today, you probably could not do the...

In a moment of pure impulse, Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, said he would buy Twitter. A few days later, he thought better of his offer, an eye-watering $44 billion, and tried to rescind it. Too...

  In a moment of pure impulse, Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, said he would buy Twitter. A few days later, he thought better of his offer, an eye-watering $44 billion, and tried to rescind it....

So, billionaire industrial genius Elon Musk buys Twitter and immediately, 75% of the staff resign. What happened? Musk was brilliant at building real stuff – SpaceX – space ships that worked – watching the boosters land on their own...

There is an old expression that says, ‘it is easier to invent the future than to predict it’. Mark Zuckerberg appears about to prove this aphorism false. After pouring tens of billions into the Metaverse and pivoting the once...

  Many years ago, when I was just getting started, I landed The Voice of America as a client. The VOA was then a US Government owned short wave radio network.  The State Department wanted to turn it into...

  Yesterday, Lisa sent me two old photos that she had found. In the olden days, you would find these in a box in the attic.  As we have no attic, and no box of old photos, she found...

I first met Lashan when she was in one of our bootcamps at Oxygen Media in 1999. She says that that experience changed her life. She started her career working for her Brooklyn Neighbor, Spike Lee and now owns...

In many ways, Eugenia’s career paralleled the changes that technology was bringing to the broadcast, media and television world.  When she started, the only job one could get was working for a TV station or a network. She, ahead of...