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The Orders of Magnitude of Talent (Or: Why Recruiting Is Hard)
Albert Wenger – Apr 13, 2011
I have always loved the videos illustrating orders of magnitude of scale. It simply seems a marvel that the world around us encompasses all these different scales. It turns out to also be a useful way to think about ability [...] Read more
Selection Trumps Motivation (Solving Google’s Social Problem)
Albert Wenger – Apr 11, 2011
While I have a feeling that Larry Page won’t take any of my suggestions (darn), I am happy to see him come out swinging hard. What a welcome contrast to when Jerry Yang took over as CEO at Yahoo. Several [...] Read more
The Coming Mobile Commoditization Wars
Albert Wenger – Apr 7, 2011
Tech’s history is somewhat reminiscent of the city of Troy, which when it was discovered was found to have many layers with newer ones built on top of the old ones. In tech as new layers get built the old [...] Read more
The Web STP Challenge: Making APIs Useful
Albert Wenger – Apr 5, 2011
Why We Need Better Authentication
Albert Wenger – Apr 4, 2011
In case you missed it, email services provider Epsilon had a massive security breach and a large number of email lists were exposed, including those of several large banks such as JP Morgan Chase and Citi. This is likely to [...] Read more
Options and Startup Common Equity Value (Bubble Talk)
Albert Wenger – Apr 1, 2011
There is something frequently missed in thinking about the value of common shares in startups. These shares are actually options!The TheoryA common share in a startup has the same payout structure as a call option. There is a range of [...] Read more
Director Challenge: Founder CEO Performance
Albert Wenger – Mar 30, 2011
One of the things that’s particularly difficult in being a startup board member is striking the right balance between supporting a founder CEO and listening to other people from the organization. It is possible to err on either side – [...] Read more
Looking to Redesign Continuations
Albert Wenger – Mar 29, 2011
I have had the same minimal design on this blog for quite some time. But as I am committed to keeping Continuations goind and writing more, I think the time has come for a complete overhaul of the design. I [...] Read more
Embrace Messy Data (To Reach Internet Scale)
Albert Wenger – Mar 28, 2011
I believe I have discovered an important reason why the government has a hard time making good use of the Internet: people who design systems for the government abhor messy data. They are used to setups in which every record [...] Read more