Gary Bettman does not get enough credit. He has spent 33 years running the most efficiently managed league in North American professional sports, expanding its footprint, negotiating broadcast deals, and managing labor relations in ways that would have broken lesser executives. And now, quietly, he has done something no other commissioner has done. He got … Read more
Here is what nobody tells you about GitHub. It was not built for coders. It was built for people who believe that the best ideas should never die in someone’s head or disappear in an email thread. Developers just got there first. I am not a software engineer. I do not write code. I cannot … Read more
For 25 years, we’ve been pouring the messy reality of business relationships into tidy little boxes. First name. Last name. Company. Title. Last contact date. Stage. We did it because we had no choice. Software couldn’t read a meeting transcript, parse an email thread, or make sense of a voice memo. So we trained an … Read more
While this is about the phone call, it has broader implications for how knowledge workers manage the information that lives and dies, inside phone calls. Every day, business happens over the phone. Deals get shaped. Problems get solved. Relationships get built or broken. And then, almost universally, the details evaporate. Not anymore. Today I built … Read more
Sports Tech Has a Discovery Problem. I Built DevLocker.dev to Fix It. I’ve spent most of my career around markets that were early, fragmented, fast-moving, and misunderstood. That includes telecom. That includes collaboration. That includes developer platforms. And long before much of that, it included sports. What I’ve learned over the years is simple: every … Read more
The news that Arsenal has signed a global partnership with Meta, bringing Facebook and WhatsApp further into the club’s commercial and fan engagement engine, is more than just another football sponsorship. It is a reminder that communications platforms have always sought cultural distribution to accelerate network effects. We have seen this before. In the early … Read more
The business of sponsoring college sports used to be relatively straightforward. You wrote a check, aligned your brand with a program or championship, activated around game day, and measured success in eyeballs and affinity. Today, that model feels almost quaint. What’s replaced it is a fragmented, fast-moving, and increasingly risky landscape where marketers, lawyers, athletes, … Read more
I’ve been going to Montpeyroux for thirty years. Long before most wine writers knew how to spell it. Long before the natural wine crowd discovered it. Long before the scores caught up to what the glass was already telling you. In 2007 Helene Malabed and I were married there. 100 people gathered, some local, some … Read more
When Main Street Sports Group announced it was shuttering the FanDuel Sports Network RSNs, the immediate reaction was predictable: hand-wringing about the death of regional sports networks, some schadenfreude from cord-cutting advocates, and a lot of confusion from fans wondering where they will watch their teams next season. But if you take a step back, … Read more
The standalone AI meeting notetaker had a good run. But the runway just got a lot shorter. Zoom unveiled agentic AI capabilities in February 2026, including My Notes and Personal Workflows, shifting from reactive support to proactive intelligence. In March, Zoom expanded its enterprise agentic AI platform with workflow orchestration that turns meetings, calls, and … Read more
