#tech-leaders

#tech-leaders

When Valerie Bertele went to The Battery for a creative writing event on Tuesday, not many people showed up. The member's club is a hot spot for tech leaders -the same crowd that often travels over 300 miles northeast to Black Rock City for the annual Burning Man. "There were less than 10 people," said Bertele, a VC at Yellow Rocks Capital. "The organizers were saying that we didn't get any signups because everyone looks to be at Burning Man."

The global economy is getting a hardware refit and trying out a new operating system-in effect, a full reboot, the likes of which we have not seen in nearly a century. To understand why this is happening and what it means, we need to abandon any illusion that the worldwide turn toward right-wing populism and economic nationalism is merely a temporary error, and that everything will eventually snap back to the relatively benign world of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

One founder who has built a billion-dollar company told me he doesn't see value in a liberal arts education and has 'yet to meet people that consistently rave about that as being super useful.'

On the phone, they asked me to change my password using my Gmail app and to *not* say my new password out loud.