“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…
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…
[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…