Napkin Math

Profit and power in technology.

Jun 10, 2022

Software is Eating the Individual

The Embedded Human

Jun 2, 2022

The Inventor of the iPhone Has Some Thoughts

Build by Tony Fadell: A Review

May 26, 2022

The Addiction Economy

Addicted, Overwhelmed, Oversubscribed: How Technology Hooked the World

May 19, 2022

How Startups Can Survive the Creator Economy Winter

The Race for Revenue Share

May 12, 2022

Crypto’s Failed Promise

The problem with crypto-as-a-nation-state

May 5, 2022

The Empire Stripes Back

A $100B Bet on Two Brothers

Apr 28, 2022

Cash—Kingmaker or Killer?

A examination of when cash can anoint a market winner

Apr 21, 2022

Microsoft should buy Netflix

Netflix and Bill

Apr 14, 2022

The Race for New Payment Rails

Who is building the next Visa?

Apr 8, 2022

The Futility of Utility

A personal essay

Apr 5, 2022

Twitter’s Shot at Becoming a Meme Stock

It’s Musk's world and we’re just tweeting in it

Mar 30, 2022

Twitter’s Probably Screwed

The Rugged Landscape of Digital Advertising

Mar 24, 2022

Planet of the Billion Dollar Bored Apes

Is Bored Ape Yacht Club a Decentralized Disney?

Mar 23, 2022

BIG announcement incoming

I'm going full time on Napkin Math

Mar 10, 2022

How To Get Leverage On Your Ideas

The Power Output Equation

Feb 25, 2022

Joe Rogan: The Platform-Proof Creator

Spotify’s No-Win Predicament

Feb 17, 2022

The Future of Netflix

When everyone’s a streamer, nobody is.

Feb 10, 2022

Is YC the Monopoly It Thinks It Is?

The Pricing Power Flex

Jan 31, 2022

Spotify’s Quest to Own Your Ear

A Napkin Math and Trapital Production

Jan 27, 2022

Will Tokens Replace Equity?

The Weird Future Ahead

Jan 13, 2022

3 Thoughts On Justworks

The newest SaaS company to hit the public markets

Jan 6, 2022

What the hell is going on with Lambda School?

The complicated business of selling social good

Dec 16, 2021

The primary trends I’m investing in next year

Inflation, web3, embedded fintech, investing in people, and the newsletter winter that is coming

Dec 1, 2021

Investing on Instinct

Why the best deals are done with no data at all