It’s no surprise that foreign investors play an active role in the US private capital market. However, their presence raises the question of whether nation-state actors can use their investment…
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Venture capitalists often say that they don’t just back a company because of its vision, but also because they believe in the founder or founding team and think they’re the…
EXPENSIVE MILITARY HARDWARE LIKE a new tank undergoes rigorous testing before heading to the battlefield. A startup called Istari, backed by Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google and chair…
The Defense Industrial Base is still quite vast, but it’s steadily shrinking. The latest edition of an annual report by the National Defense Industrial Association suggests that even though thousands…
Every startup leadership team wrestles with the trade-offs between growth and profitability. This is fitting and ever shall be. What teams don’t reflect on sufficiently is how a flawed compensation…
Over the past three years, founders and investors have navigated an astounding number of strategic shocks—a global pandemic, economic lockdown, the Ukraine crisis, rising interest rates, inflation, and more. Even…
If an artificial intelligence program were to engineer a human with the potential to destroy it—or at least slow its march to global domination—it might create Edward Tian. Tian, a…
Josh Wolfe arrived at a remote island in the Philippines by inflatable boat, surrounded by men with large guns. It was 2019 and the founding partner of the New York…
Over the last decade or so, many venture capitalists have built vast personal fortunes. Some of the money has been made through investments in companies that have outperformed. But much…
Financial services remained the leading sector for venture investment in 2022 despite an overall pullback in venture funding and shockwaves in the crypto industry. And fintech is expected to remain strong in 2023,…
