+ this week’s firewall episode Joe Biden hasn’t officially announced his re-election campaign yet but Donald Trump’s recent indictment ushered in the beginning of the 2024 presidential campaign. The normal laws of political gravity have never applied to Trump so anything involving him is always unique. But even in the…

Jordan Nof, co-founder of Tusk Venture Partners, joins Bradley on Firewall to address the aftershocks of the Silicon Valley Bank failure, the growing premium on founders who aren’t stuck in 2021 and why their fund is writing the biggest checks it…

A few weeks ago, around 25 students from the Princeton Student Entrepreneurs club came to my office to talk about what working in venture capital is like. It was probably the worst meeting they’ve ever had. Admittedly, I walked into the meeting in a bad mood for reasons having nothing…

When Uber founder Travis Kalanick asked me back in 2011 if I would take equity instead of cash as my consulting fee, I wasn’t immediately sure what to say. I believed in Travis and what he was trying to build, but the company was less than two years old and…

For three years now, I’ve taught a fall semester class at Columbia Business School called ‘The Economics and Politics of Digital Disruption.’ The title kinda tells you all you need to know. It’s been a great experience for me. I feel like I’ve provided value for my students, and I…

I read mainly fiction. Mainly new books but not always, so these are the best books I read in 2022, whether new (most are) or not (a few). I have a quick trigger finger so I start a lot more books than I finish. I’ve also had a lifelong dream…

There is a widely held misconception that intelligence equals success, or is at least the best predictor of it. As a result, society overvalues IQ and academic performance while undervaluing many of the qualities that are far more likely to indicate someone’s ability to succeed, especially in a non-linear…

This is either the dumbest parenting idea in the world or it’s a pretty good one. For the last four years, my son (who is now 13) and I have been reading the New York Post together, every morning, seven days a week. We started reading the Post because he…

People measure their lives in different ways. Some measure it by how much money they have and what they can buy with it. Some measure it by the love of their friends and family. Some measure it by what they can create. Some measure it by having time for their faith or their hobbies and passions. And some people measure their lives based on the impact they’ve had on the world. — To be clear, 95% of people in the United States and 99% of people around the world do not have the luxury of measuring their lives by anything other than getting by. …