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Lessons from Chuck Robbins

Since becoming CEO in 2015, Chuck Robbins has pushed Cisco away from its hardware roots and toward software and security. His management style is highly pragmatic, prioritizing fast decisions and zero tolerance for passive aggressive executives.

Lessons from Eitan Saban

Eitan Saban is a sales leader who has built and scaled commercial organizations across three continents for companies like EchoSign, Adobe, DocuSign, Seismic, and PayPal.

Daily Digest - 2026-07-18

Chinese open-weight models are unexpectedly competitive. This changes the balance of power in global AI. Chinese startup Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.

Daily Digest - 2026-07-17

How to build AI-native teams for speed instead of headcount. Successful AI-first companies are dropping traditional departments for "mission pods."

Daily Digest - 2026-07-16

Replit's CEO explains how integrating agents into the company tripled engineering code output while maintaining quality. Over the last six months, Replit embedded agents into its workflows.

Daily Digest - 2026-07-15

Early proof that AI agents can iterate on their own code, suggesting capabilities will compound faster than expected. Researchers built AIDE², an AI that improves itself through two loops: an inner loop for code and an outer loop for the agent's harness.

Daily Digest - 2026-07-14

AI engineering is shifting from standalone autonomous agents toward the infrastructure around them: workflows, context, evaluations, permissions, and state. The practical goal is reliable systems that augment human operators, not autonomy for its own sake.

When the Odds Cannot Be Calculated

When probabilities and outcomes are impossible to predict, most investors flee. Richard Zeckhauser argues this domain of profound ignorance is precisely where the greatest returns are found—if you have the right framework.

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