The Good Pizza guy
“I went to investors,” he says. “No, no, no, no, no. Always no.”
At the time, he thought they were wrong.
“I said, what asshole, all these people,” he says, laughing.
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The outlook for entrepreneurship? Pretty damn good
I could have been an asshole, but I started a business instead. I mean, the guy left Amazon on a Friday and started a business the following Monday.
AI has no editorial judgement. None. Zero. Zilch.
Maybe keep a human between the machine and the "hit publish" function. Just a thought.
Women founders and the question of capital
Women-led startups produced seventy-eight cents in revenue for every dollar of funding, compared with thirty-one cents generated by male-founded companies. In venture capital terms, that kind of capital efficiency usually earns admiration.
Don't look back! Innovation vs nostalgia.
I never thought of Gainesville as an entrepreneurial hub or really anything more than a football school. I was wrong. It's a major center for biotech, agtech, and AI.
The White Space
Economic systems are consolidating. Big platforms dominate markets. Universities are wrestling with their own transformations. Technology is accelerating the pace of change, as it always does.
Purpose through pain
That is the backdrop to Lily’s Lighthouse, the nonprofit Sarah Kate founded to fund research into mushroom therapies for epilepsy. But the story does not begin with a nonprofit. It begins with a mother.