I live and die by my Marriott Bonvoy Amex card (R.I.P. beloved SPG AmEx). I got addicted to points early in life, as a consultant fresh out of college. Now, with a family of 4, those points are an integral part of our never-ending travels. …

“Setting up the investment vehicle was so much easier than I thought!” - No VC ever As an investor, entrepreneur and creator, I have had to set up numerous companies over the years (to my tax accountant’s chagrin). And while I became more comfortable doing it over time, one aspect…

eCommerce brands and retailers live and die by their customers’ shopping experience. Navigation is slow or confusing? Customers leave. Products are hard to find? Customers leave. Checkout crashes? Customers are mad…and probably leave. And as social media sites — which are slick, fast, and media-rich — are increasingly the referral point for eCommerce traffic, there is tremendous pressure to level-up the shopping…

Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and Pinterest have collectively built over $700 billion of market capital off the back of their users’ social capital. As has been written about and lamented extensively (what’s up, Yang Gang?), none of this value has been returned to those users’ wallets. Unless your last name…

Event ticketing has a distribution problem. The problem is that there isn’t any distribution. By contrast, if I want to buy a ticket for Seat 15A on JetBlue Flight 123, that exact ticket is simultaneously available via countless channels — not just JetBlue itself, but also Orbitz, Priceline, Expedia, etc…

Medicare is an integral part of the American healthcare system. In 2020, 62 million people were enrolled in Medicare, which is over 18 percent of all people living in the US. …

Last week we gathered with family and friends to share Thanksgiving meals. And while people may forever debate the merits of cranberry sauce, there’s one thing that’s nearly certain: Someone at your holiday dinner table was playing — or at least talking about — Roblox. By almost every measure, Roblox…

It’s hard to generalize the experiences of the Asian and Pacific Islander diaspora. We have arrived at broad groupings such as AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) and BAME (Black, Asian and minority ethnic) by way of solidarity and necessity — which John Oliver explored brilliantly three months ago —…

It’s hard to talk about 2020 without making it all about the pandemic. But within the entertainment industry, the COVID crisis accelerated a dramatic shift that’s been a long time coming — and one that will remake multiple aspects of the business for years to come. …