“You’ll totally hit it off.” My wife, our baby daughter and I moved to Singapore on the last day of 2012. Two weeks later I met a Singapore-based entrepreneur named Usman Sheikh, described by the friend who introduced us as a fellow talent obsessive with legit startup chops. “You…
My favorite definition of culture is as a set of rules and norms that communicate what is safe, what gets rewarded, and what gets punished. Want to know what it’s really like to work at a company? Hire. Fire. Promote. Forget the fancy corporate pillars and principles and values…
My career has been a function of my network. I’ve used it over the years to get jobs, and to achieve more in those roles as the strength of that network compounded. I got my first job on campus as a student, and my second by applying online. But…
Ever stumble onto something that feels like it might be right on the cusp of getting big? Like, really big? That just clicks with you, becomes very real when you experience it, and then makes you think: “It’s just a matter of time before everybody else comes around to…
If I asked you to name the realm of life on which we spend nearly a third of our time, the one so much of our happiness depends upon -- the one we navigate every day, over the course of decades -- what would you answer? Is it relationships? Physical…
[April, 2016, Los Gatos, California] Interviewer: “You’ve been at Uber for four years, how’s this going to play out, this whole ridesharing thing?” Me: [Pause, thinking of answer; thinking whether I should give that answer; deciding, “Screw it, why not”]: “Well...Reed...I tend to think about it…