Jonathan LittmanCoronavirus Infects Gig EconomyOur office is in sleepy Sausalito across the bay from San Francisco. Population 7,000. Or as we like to describe this scenic nautical…Mar 10, 2020Mar 10, 2020
Jonathan LittmaninMarkerLime’s Plan After Cornering the E-scooter Market? ProfitabilityAre cities, people, and Lime itself really ready for what the e-scooter behemoth wants to do to the world?Jan 29, 20204Jan 29, 20204
Jonathan LittmanWhy Every Startup Needs to Sell LemonadeThe Stanford Launchpad startup teams circled around adjunct professors Perry Klebahn and Jeremy Utley in the d.school’s Studio One. On the…Apr 29, 2019Apr 29, 2019
Jonathan LittmanThe Ministry of Twitter: Inside Trump’s BullhornLunching at Twitter’s headquarters recently in a week dominated by inane tweets by our President, I thought of my favorite writer. George…Jul 20, 2017Jul 20, 2017
Jonathan LittmanPitch Day, The Sport Sweeping AmericaThe proud mom in the front row was telling me all about her son. Nick Martitsch was about to compete in a prestigious collegiate event…Jun 7, 2017Jun 7, 2017
Jonathan LittmanKushner Plays Moneyball with the ElectorateData science is taking over our work, lives — and now politics. The FBI is investigating ties between Russian bots and hackers and Trump’s…Jun 1, 2017Jun 1, 2017
Jonathan LittmanWhy AI is Eating Software…and Getting Smarter by the SecondHow does a chicken with an AI brain cross the road? At a packed conference in San Francisco, a wizard named Danny Lange wowed investors and…May 22, 2017May 22, 2017
Jonathan LittmanUber’s True CrimeYet another bomb exploded in the series of self-detonations from Uber, with last week’s announcement that the Department of Justice has…May 8, 2017May 8, 2017
Jonathan LittmanWhy Innovation is Like PopcornLast week, browsing the aisles of my local grocery store, I found the perfect metaphor for the entrepreneur’s peripatetic search for the…Apr 26, 2017Apr 26, 2017
Jonathan LittmanThe $20 Billion Experiment in How WeWorkForget for a moment technology. One of the planet’s most heavily financed startups is waging an all-out assault on where and how humans…Apr 18, 2017Apr 18, 2017