We Have Seen This Movie Before

None of this should feel unfamiliar if you lived through telecom, mobile, or cloud. In the early 2000s, U.S. carriers convinced themselves that owning the network meant owning the future. They optimized for ARPU, control, and contractual lock-in. Meanwhile, VoIP app companies, OTT operators, and Skype all focused on deployment speed, adoption depth, and scale … Read more

Why Pro Sports Had to Go Global

Global sports expansion is no longer a cultural victory lap. It is a hard-nosed capital strategy built for a world where domestic markets are saturated, the cable bundle is decaying, and every new media cycle has to look larger than the last one to keep valuations and leverage ratios from getting ugly. The NBA and … Read more

Sports Marketing as Infrastructure

Most brands still get sports marketing wrong. They write big checks for stadium naming rights, slap a logo on a building, and convince themselves they’ve won. They haven’t. What I’ve learned, first from 24 years inside sports marketing and later from being involved in 63 startup exits across tech, is this: the brands that actually … Read more

When the Broadcast Is an App Icon: Why It Might Be OK

We’re witnessing the end of an era and perhaps the beginning of another. The traditional sports telecast, once the hallowed perch where voices like Vin Scully and Harry Kalas painted summers in living color, is being unseated. Not by better microphones or smarter analysts, but by the app icon on your phone. Two seismic stories … Read more

Never Slow Down, Never Grow Old-Alternate Version

A Lesson from Mary Jane’s Last Dance– “Well, I don’t know, but I’ve been toldYou never slow down, you never grow old.” That opening line from Mary Jane’s Last Dance is one of those lyrics that feels tossed off casually, but lands with weight. It’s observational, almost conversational, yet it says something most of us don’t fully … Read more

Is Jony Ive Hijacking Tech Media Coverage Just Before CES 2026?

Every year, as early January approaches, tech media and headlines start to orbit around one event: CES, the world’s largest consumer electronics show. Platforms, newsletters, podcasts, and social feeds fill with predictions about the latest screens, AI gadgets, robots, and “game-changing” innovations. And with CES 2026 already underway in headlines, one story has exploded to … Read more

2025: The Year the Patterns Aligned

As 2025 comes to a close, it is worth reflecting on a year that did not explode with revolutionary breakthroughs but rather revealed a steady convergence of long-developing trends. This was not a year marked by disruption for disruption’s sake. Instead, it was one in which previously experimental ideas matured and earned their place in … Read more

Comunicano Intelligence Brief: December 15 2025

Comunicano Intelligence Brief | Dec 15, 2025 COMUNICANO INTELLIGENCE BRIEF The Synchronization of Agency & Sovereignty December 15, 2025: The end of the “Chatbot” era and the rise of Sovereign Agents. DEC 15 2025 Report Paradigm Shift Chatbot → Agent From answering questions to executing work. US Innovation GPT-5.2 & Gemini 3 Simultaneous frontier model … Read more