Stephen JacobVelvet or VelcroI was struggling the other day. The life of a startup founder is not glitz and glamour. It’s a slog. It takes a special kind of idiot to…Apr 12Apr 12
Stephen JacobLie to yourselfMake small goals so that they aren’t overwhelming. Celebrate the small wins and then make bigger goalsMar 28Mar 28
Stephen JacobThe future of televisionWhen I was growing up in the 1980s, we were told that we would have robot butlers, flying cars and computers would be everywhere. We do…Mar 20Mar 20
Stephen JacobDo you care about the answer?When you ask someone how their day is going, do you care about the answer? Do you wait for them to respond or do you just walk away?Mar 1Mar 1
Stephen JacobOpen AI SORAOn 15 Feb 2024, Open AI released a new video generation model called SORA. It allows users to create video from text and is light-years…Feb 27Feb 27
Stephen JacobLearning about AIMy father was a general surgeon. He loves languages. In the mid-1980s, during the Cold War, he started to teach himself Russian…Feb 71Feb 71
Stephen JacobThe power of habitsI did graduate work in Public Policy at Harvard. I was COO at DealStreetAsia. Somehow, I ended up working on an adtech…Jan 30Jan 30
Stephen JacobPeople Come FirstNo matter how automated things become, people still matter. People > Systems. Hire for fit, train for the role.Jan 26Jan 26
Stephen JacobUnited Airlines: Too Little, Too Late?With so many corporations facing many examples of things that go wrong and how not to respond to them, why do executives continue to drop…Apr 12, 2017Apr 12, 2017
