Setting the Stage Before today’s fast-paced world of TikTok videos and YouTube shorts, there was SlideShare, a platform that quietly transformed how professionals shared knowledge both visually and socially. Founded in 2006 by Rashmi Sinha, Jonathan Boutelle, and Amit Ranjan, SlideShare solved a surprisingly frustrating problem: presentations were often trapped on personal laptops or buried in email chains. The founders envisioned a space where ideas, not just documents, coul

Author: Harmeet Singh Devgun 💯 How transparency and ethics build stronger companies and better leaders “Managers that always promise to ‘make the numbers’ will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.” - Warren Buffett “Good businesses are ethical businesses. Ethics are, in fact, the best form of governance.” - Charlie Munger When you hear the term corporate governance, it might sound technical or dull, but it’s actually pretty simple. Governance is about how a comp

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On October 22nd, the Commonwealth Club hosted an insightful conversation with Charles Schwab in San Francisco. Charles “Chuck” Schwab is one of the world’s most influential financial executives. As of 2019, nearly $3.6 trillion worth of assets are managed by the eponymous Charles Schwab and Company. Mr. Schwab founded his brokerage firm in 1971 with a loan of $100,000 and four employees in San Francisco. In conversation with Adam Lashinsky, Executive Editor of Fortune magazi

Unicorns represent mythical horses projecting a single horn from their foreheads, an image of unreal beauty. In our modern business jargon, we define unicorns as privately held high tech companies worth over $1 billion that are supposedly unique and ready to beat the world. Uber, Lyft, Alibaba, Facebook, and others belong in this category. Are they really companies of unreal promise? Let’s examine the question. Uber is getting ready to list its IPO and collect $1 billi

Guy Kawasaki spoke at the Commonwealth Club event on April 1, 2019. He has been an oracle of Silicon Valley and the tech world since he was part of Apple’s original Macintosh team in the 1980’s. Guy’s newest book “Wise Guy” discusses the personal experiences that have inspired him over his prominent career and personal life. His father named him after the musician Guy Lombardo. Guy heartily opened up about how he struggles to write with all the distractions of emails and soci