The Sidewalk Is the Lab: Hard Things, Round Three

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Notes from a conversation about Physical AI with Touraj Parang
Last Thursday, May 28, a small room in Palo Alto stayed later than it should have, hopefully the signal that an evening worked. Mavka Capital and Foley convened the third installment of “Hard Things,” our invite-only series for the founders, investors, and builders working at the frontier of physical AI. The conversation, moderated by my partner in this series Vitaly Golomb of Mavka Capital, ran past the point where people normally start drifting toward the door. Nobody drifted.

The Habits of Boards That Get It Right

NACD Northern California put a group of directors around a table last week to talk about why good boards still talk themselves into bad decisions. We were privileged to co-lead the discussion alongside our friends Tracey-Lee Brown and Matt DiGuiseppe, both Directors in the Governance Insights Center at PwC. PwC’s latest Annual Corporate Directors Survey had just landed, and the headline number gave us something to chew on. What follows are some of the ideas we took away from that conversation.