I have written Thanksgiving posts in past years thanking entrepreneurs, teachers and my parents. Today I want to thank my immediate family: Susan, Michael, Katie and Peter. You are each amazing in your own way and bring so much joy to my life. Thanks for putting up with my overcommitment to work and various other projects. Thanks for letting me drag you onto steeper than you would like ski slopes and into windier than you prefer sailing days. Thanks for calling me out when I am wrong. Through...

I have written Thanksgiving posts in past years thanking entrepreneurs, teachers and my parents. Today I want to thank my immediate family: Susan, Michael, Katie and Peter. You are each amazing in your own way and bring so much joy to my life. Thanks for putting up with my overcommitment to work and various other projects. Thanks for letting me drag you onto steeper than you would like ski slopes and into windier than you prefer sailing days. Thanks for calling me out when I am wrong. Through...

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday: time with family and food is great as is having a reminder to be thankful. Today I want to say how thankful I am for entrepreneurs. For the people who are crazy enough to believe that they can create something from nothing (ok, not exactly ex nihilo, more on that in a second). Without entrepreneurs there would be no VCs. And much more importantly there would be very little progress. We will eventually figure out how to finance startups through crowdfunding...

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday: time with family and food is great as is having a reminder to be thankful. Today I want to say how thankful I am for entrepreneurs. For the people who are crazy enough to believe that they can create something from nothing (ok, not exactly ex nihilo, more on that in a second). Without entrepreneurs there would be no VCs. And much more importantly there would be very little progress. We will eventually figure out how to finance startups through crowdfunding...

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Not only is there no gift giving madness but it is great to be reminded that I have much to thankful for. Last year I wrote a post thanking my parents. This year I want to give a big shoutout to Susan. We met completely randomly in a cafe in Paris in 1991 and if she hadn’t been the one to suggest that we meet again the next day our lives would likely be very different! There are so many things that I am thankful to Susan for but two in particular stand out...

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Not only is there no gift giving madness but it is great to be reminded that I have much to thankful for. Last year I wrote a post thanking my parents. This year I want to give a big shoutout to Susan. We met completely randomly in a cafe in Paris in 1991 and if she hadn’t been the one to suggest that we meet again the next day our lives would likely be very different! There are so many things that I am thankful to Susan for but two in particular stand out...

I am taking the rest of this week off (including a blogging mini-break) as my parents are in town from Germany and I rarely get to spend time with them. Last night Susan and I went to dinner with them and then to the NY Philharmonic to hear a terrific performance of Antonín Dvořák’s From the New World symphony (one of my favorites). It was a wonderful evening and also a great reminder of all the things my parents did that I am grateful for. My parents took me to the Opera as a kid but also le...

I am taking the rest of this week off (including a blogging mini-break) as my parents are in town from Germany and I rarely get to spend time with them. Last night Susan and I went to dinner with them and then to the NY Philharmonic to hear a terrific performance of Antonín Dvořák’s From the New World symphony (one of my favorites). It was a wonderful evening and also a great reminder of all the things my parents did that I am grateful for. My parents took me to the Opera as a kid but also le...

Thanksgiving is by far my favorite holiday (isn’t it everybody’s?). We tend to have at least one if not two big family meals and there is nothing quite like leftover turkey sandwiches. But more importantly, it is a hugely important reminder that I have so much to be thankful for: my wonderful family, working with great partners and passionate teams, being able to do what I love, health and financial security, living in a free country and many more things that I sometimes come to take for gran...

Thanksgiving is by far my favorite holiday (isn’t it everybody’s?). We tend to have at least one if not two big family meals and there is nothing quite like leftover turkey sandwiches. But more importantly, it is a hugely important reminder that I have so much to be thankful for: my wonderful family, working with great partners and passionate teams, being able to do what I love, health and financial security, living in a free country and many more things that I sometimes come to take for gran...

Since I am taking tomorrow and Friday off from blogging, I figured I would write about giving thanks today. I am finding a great many things to be thankful for from good health to amazing work (that frankly doesn’t feel like work at all). But the specific thing I have in mind today is giving thanks for and to the teachers in our lives. I am always encouraging our children to thank their teachers, whether it is in school or for a sport or hobby. I tell them to think ahead of time about what th...

Since I am taking tomorrow and Friday off from blogging, I figured I would write about giving thanks today. I am finding a great many things to be thankful for from good health to amazing work (that frankly doesn’t feel like work at all). But the specific thing I have in mind today is giving thanks for and to the teachers in our lives. I am always encouraging our children to thank their teachers, whether it is in school or for a sport or hobby. I tell them to think ahead of time about what th...