Silicon Valley builds persuasion machines powered by your deepest fears, calls it innovation.
Read full article →The Benotto report reveals that corporate values documents are excellent at making boards feel virtuous while faculty hide their faith.
Read full article →When an industry is too chaotic to fit party talking points, even Congress notices.
Read full article →Thrive Holdings achieves unicorn status on the strength of a corporate co-sign and zero public revenue disclosures.
Read full article →Three senior executives exit in a month as the company prepares to sell shareholders a story about 'retooling' instead of chaos.
Read full article →Researchers discover that optimizing for a goal without ethical constraints produces unethical outcomes—a finding that will surprise nobody who has ever read a pitch deck.
Read full article →The streaming giant's humanity attestation form is less regulation than elaborate theater masking an industry in freefall.
Read full article →When your only product is belief in tomorrow's numbers, yesterday's miss becomes tomorrow's setup.
Read full article →Retail investors can now experience the same opportunity cost as institutional ones, minus the information advantage.
Read full article →Wasatch Global Investors adopts Ridgeline software, discovers that consolidating workflows requires purchasing software to consolidate workflows.
Read full article →DumbCapital covers venture capital and M&A in North America with the skepticism these markets have long deserved and rarely received. We are not impressed by large numbers. We are not moved by press releases. All articles are satirical commentary based on real, publicly reported deals. Nothing here is financial advice.