How Is The 54th Week of 2020 Going For You?

At lunch today, Amy said “Welcome to January 112th.” I just got an email from a friend that included the line, “I’m writing off the first 20 days of the

January 13, 2021 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Welcome Maëlle Gavet to Techstars

Today, Techstars announced that Maëlle Gavet has joined as CEO. When David Cohen, David Brown, Jared Polis, and I started Techstars in 2006, we could have never envisioned what it

January 12, 2021 · 3 min · Brad Feld

RIP Len Fassler

After 89 years on this planet, Len Fassler passed away on Friday. Len was my Yoda. As a paternal figure, he was a close second to my father. I loved

January 11, 2021 · 8 min · Brad Feld

Media Archaeology Lab Virtual Tour on 1/21/21

For a long time, I collected computers (hardware, software, manuals, and magazines.) About five years ago, I donated my collection to the Media Archaeology Lab, located at CU Boulder. Also,

January 10, 2021 · 1 min · Brad Feld

What Is Your First Political Memory?

For the past nine months, Amy and I have started our morning together. I get up, pee, weigh myself, brush my teeth, meditate for 20 to 30 minutes, and then

January 8, 2021 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Book: In the Beginning…Was the Command Line

I love Neal Stephenson. I’ve read all of his books, some of them multiple times. Well, except the Baroque Cycle trilogy, which I’m saving for a special period of time

December 29, 2020 · 3 min · Brad Feld

What Is Your Biggest Hope and Your Bigger Fear?

About a month ago, I participated in a discussion hosted by the CU Boulder Conference on World Affairs titled Back to the Future: Lessons for our emerging challenges from science

December 28, 2020 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Tenet – One Big, Hot Mess of a Movie

Amy and I watched Tenet the other night. When we finished, she turned to me and said, “That was one big, hot mess of a movie.” I sat for a

December 25, 2020 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Great HQ Migration

January 3, 2020, seems like a very long time ago. That day, I wrote a post titled The Future Of Work Is Distributed. I had no idea that four months

December 14, 2020 · 2 min · Brad Feld

100% Deductibility of Cash Charitable Contributions in 2020

Amy and I just finished allocating our 2020 year-end charitable contributions from our Anchor Point Foundation. Given our charitable contributions around Covid and Racial Equity throughout the year, w

December 11, 2020 · 2 min · Brad Feld