by John Hill | Aug 22, 2026 | Uncategorized
Branden Jenkins was out to dinner when he pulled out his phone, glanced at his AI usage dashboard, and realized his weekend coding session had just cost him $1,000 — charged automatically, in $1,000 increments, to a card set on auto-renew. Jenkins is the CEO of Maxio,...
by John Hill | Aug 22, 2026 | Uncategorized
America’s child care crisis costs the economy an estimated $172 billion each year in lost earnings, productivity and tax revenue. Nearly half of young children in the United States live in communities where licensed child care supply falls far short of demand. Yet for...
by John Hill | Aug 22, 2026 | Uncategorized
Two celestial bodies orbiting each other trace stable, predictable paths. Add a third, and the system turns chaotic: each body is large enough to bend the others’ paths, and a small nudge by one can swing the trajectory of all three. That is how I have come to see the...
by John Hill | Aug 22, 2026 | Uncategorized
In 2014, Annabel, 40, and Emily Lui, 47, were down to their last £15,000 after a promising start to their bakery side hustle suddenly fell apart. The British sisters had built Cutter & Squidge in 2012 around their signature Biskies and landed accounts with two of...
by John Hill | Aug 22, 2026 | Uncategorized
I came of age in finance in investment banking in the U.S. during the boom and bust of dotcom era. I continued in finance by shifting into private equity, working for a multibillion-dollar fund, and it was a tough time, a really tough time. I was in London, which in...
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