Hello, NewCo Shift readers. Thanks so much for reading. I’d like to share with you some of my favorites on our site right now:
The Republican National Convention is being held this week. High-profile tech investor Peter Thiel will be there to speak, but we published this open letter from more than 100 technology sector leaders on Donald Trump’s candidacy for President. None of them will be on stage in Cleveland this week.
Facebook reported recently on its diversity improvements (TL;DR: there weren’t many). Kaya Thomas writes about the very human impact of companies like Facebook not addressing this problem adequately.
Brad Feld, managing partner at Foundry Group, says investors should be thinking about 2025 right about now.
Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, ponders what to do about the fintech bubble.
What would you do if you took a year off? Ben Huh (you know him from Cheezburger) just enjoyed a belated gap year and came back with some unexpected lessons.
We’ve recently debuted our NewCo Shift Dialogs video interviews in which our founder and editor in chief John Battelle talks with business leaders, policy experts, and big thinkers. See our first two episodes, in which Brad Smith discusses the huge cultural shift at Microsoft and Max Ventilla goes deep on how AltSchool seeks to reinvent education. There’s a new episode coming Wednessday!
We publish stories about how business and the world are changing. If you’ve got an idea for us, let us know. We’ll be back next week with plenty more from NewCo Shift, covering the biggest shift in business and society since the industrial revolution.
– Jimmy Guterman, executive editor
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