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My Conversation on AI, Investing, and Building What Comes Next I recently joined the Disrupt or Defend podcast for a conversation on artificial intelligence, investing, founder potential, and where I believe the next wave of durable opportunity is forming. At TideBorn Capital, we spend a great deal of time thinking about inflection points, moments when technology, markets, and human capability begin to move faster than conventional wisdom expects. AI is one of those moments

We hear it all the time at work. Collaborate more. Align early. Get more people in the room. Collaboration is often treated like the answer to everything. Unpopular opinion: collaboration is not always the most productive path. Sometimes, The Committee is what slows everything down. The Easter Brunch Reminder I was reminded of this while making Easter brunch at home. Picture it: four burners going, salt on the floor, fridge door open, counters full, total chaos. My sister of

Last month I had the honor of speaking at We Are The Board biannual West Coast gathering in Los Angeles, a room of 250+ exceptional executives across fashion, CPG, beauty, tech, and wellness, with members flying in from across the US and Canada. I was invited to share my investing thesis: shaped by 14+ years building global partnerships at Google, now investing in early-stage startups at the intersection of capital and AI infrastructure. The talk covered three things I see

Do you ever go back and look at your old resumes? I recently opened mine from 2010 and had a real laugh. It felt like a time capsule of who I thought I needed to be in order to “make it.” Clean formatting, polished titles, carefully chosen verbs, and bullet points designed to sound far more sophisticated than the reality behind them. Then I landed on my first internship from 2005. On paper, I was a Hotel Management Trainee focused on Guest Satisfaction at a beautiful five-s