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Interloom just raised $16.5M to map how companies actually operate. The product is compelling, but the real opportunity is much bigger than one startup's context graph.
Most operators think about margin as an output. Revenue minus cost equals profit. Margin erosion almost never shows up as a single line item you can point to and fix. It shows up as a pattern, a reinforcing cycle where one problem feeds another.
Elon Musk just announced Terafab, a $20 billion-plus semiconductor fabrication facility in Austin that will manufacture custom chips for Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI under one roof.
I'm an entrepreneur, operator, investor, and writer.
By day I run businesses in travel; by night I build and test systems at the edge of what's changing, especially in AI and automation. I write and speak about building durable companies, turning messy execution into repeatable process, and using powerful new tools without fooling yourself -- so what you ship is reliable, measurable, and worth maintaining.
If you're building, leading teams, or trying to make sense of the shift, you're in the right place.
The average American household spends $69 a month on streaming subscriptions. That number has barely moved in a year. Not because people stopped caring about content. Because they got disciplined.
The AI regulation debate has collapsed into two camps, and I think they're both wrong. The answer might be hiding in the last place I expected.
A trillion dollars in SaaS market cap vanished in a few weeks. Wall Street looked at a few impressive AI demos and concluded that enterprise software is dead. It isn't.
If you want to understand why so many companies are spending fortunes on AI and getting nothing back, look no further than Meta's internal leaderboard for token consumption.
I have a graveyard of SaaS subscriptions I paid for instead of building and custom tools I built instead of buying. After enough mistakes, a pattern emerged in what made some decisions right and others wrong.
When I evaluate a business for the family office, I run one test before anything else. If the wind reversed tomorrow, does the company still exist?
When I evaluate pre-IPO retail access from the family office side, I run a simple test. I ask: who benefits more from this transaction, the buyer or the seller? If the company is engineering broad ownership before a public listing, the answer is almost always the seller.
Every system you build is equity. Every process only you understand is a liability on the balance sheet.
Slack announced more than 30 new capabilities for Slackbot today, transforming it from a simple chatbot into a full-spectrum enterprise agent powered by Anthropic's Claude and connected via MCP.
OpenAI is shutting down Sora, the AI video platform it launched to enormous fanfare in late 2025. The consumer app, the API, and the website are all going dark. The billion-dollar Disney deal? Dead.
The most safety-conscious AI lab on the planet just leaked its most dangerous model through a misconfigured content management system.
Interloom just raised $16.5M to map how companies actually operate. The product is compelling, but the real opportunity is much bigger than one startup's context graph.