Cameron Hayes
For Three Years, Only Companies With Big Budgets Could Work With Me. Today That Changes
Here’s the uncomfortable math of startup distribution.The companies that need attention the most are the ones that can…
There is no “Indian Question”
Photo via Wikimedia Commons“Our nation was founded to perpetuate democratic principles. These principles are that each man is…
What the AI boom is doing for Americans
Paul Krugman is the greatest econ writer in the world, and also a legendary economist. But I sometimes…
The $5T AI Opportunity🤖, The Only Reason to Raise Venture Capital⚖️, The Great AI Capital Misallocation🏗️
Another week, another pulse check on Tech.From top insights and reports to new funds, VC jobs, resources, and…
Your CEO told the board AI pays back in 6 months. CFOs know it won’t. Now what?
Your CEO told the board that AI will pay for itself in 6 months.You ran the numbers, and…
The second Trump presidency is a world-historic failure
Photo by The White House via Wikimedia CommonsThere’s a large market for “Trump is bad” posts. I wrote…
I just installed Month End Closer, Anthropic’s Finance Agent
Anthropic released 10 finance agents.A financial services plugin marketplace for Claude. Skills, agents, and complete workflows built specifically…
Building the Agentic Rail: Ant International Unveils an End-to-End, AI-Native Payments Stack
McKinsey projects AI agents will mediate $3 to $5 trillion of global consumer commerce by 2030, even under…
Roundup #89: It isn’t X, it’s Y
Photo by SK5893 via Wikimedia CommonsI’m having a lot of fun writing shorter posts and aggregating interesting items…
Luca Ferrari Runs Evernote With 20 People. Here Are His 10 Rules for Doing More With Less
Luca Ferrari runs Evernote with 20 people.Bending Spoons agreed to buy the company in November 2022, when it…
Every AI Startup Is Running One of Two Sales Plays, and Most Picked Without Looking
Proof or MathThere is more money chasing enterprise AI deals right now than at any point in the…
Stop spending money on smaller classes
I’m a little late to this story, but New York Times columnist Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote a very complex…
Venture Capital’s Incentives⚠️, Seed Funds You Can Actually Contact 📧, VC Fund Performance🔍
Another week, another pulse check on Tech.From top insights and reports to new funds, VC jobs, resources, and…
How to build a weekly cash forecast with new Claude Opus 5.5
Every CFO knows this week. You build the 13-week cash forecast on Monday. And by Friday a customer…
Where’s the “intelligence explosion”?
Art by GPT-6One of my fundamental beliefs about the world is that Ramez Naam ought to blog more.…