Buyers and lenders will spend five to six figures on a Quality of Earnings report and sometimes five to six minutes Googling the people who produced those earnings. Seems backwards. In February, prosecutors charged two former Mobileum executives with manipulating company financials before its $915 million sale. The indictment alleges [...]
Norwegian Air lost a friendly World Cup wager with British Airways and temporarily changed its Instagram logo to British Airways’ logo. It’s funny and creative, but I also love the confidence. And I suspect that Norwegian came out stronger as a result. Small things often tell us big things. And [...]
The longer I do this work, the more I think that may be the most important question anyone can ask. We get asked for background investigations all the time, but the real question is not “what will we find?” The real question is: What is the downside of not knowing? [...]
Not just productivity hacks, (which I also love) but systemetizing strategic leverage. For most of my career, if I didn’t put in the hours, the work didn’t move. That’s fine when small, but it becomes a ceiling when trying to scale. And now . . . AI does the first [...]
“Be curious, not judgmental.” -Ted Lasso Before the opening kickoff, a lot of people had already made up their minds about the Bad Bunny half time show. Some were choosing to love it. Others were choosing to boycott it. The performance almost didn’t matter. When we decide in advance, we [...]


