This is the first installment in “Where Are We?”, an ongoing series by Annika Lewis and David Phelps that breaks down economic theorists to try to figure out where exactly we are in a cycle. For this first stab at determining just when and where we are, we’re looking at…

The general macroeconomic narrative going around in North America these days feels something like: The economy was doing great pre-Covid A year ago, we were hit with a once-in-a-lifetime economic shock that took an otherwise-stable economy into shaky territory. Covid hit, and now we’re on the road to recovery After necessary…

TL;DR Snowflake is a heavy-hitting data warehouse company that’s poised to make a big splash when it goes public in the next few months. Can it out-compete the AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure goliaths? The upcoming S-1 should shine some light on the company and its prospects, and there are…

I always wondered what it was like on the other side. And no, I’m not alluding to the much-talked-about founder side vs. investor side here — I’m talking corporate vs. institutional venture. Recently, I’ve made the jump to institutional venture, and several people have asked about the transition — hence…

I left New York City about a year ago now. Shockingly to many New Yorker friends of ours, my husband and I left entirely voluntarily while still in our twenties (more shocking yet: we *didn’t* leave for SF). Having been removed from the city for a year now, I appreciate…

The day has finally come: one of the tech giants is *officially* dabbling in consumer-facing Financial Services. I’m very surprised it took this long, and the tech nerd / ex-credit-card-analyst combo in me is way too excited to over-analyze this launch as two of my worlds collide. During the big…

Since birth, it feels like, I’ve had a noticeable disdain for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Growing up, I remember yelling at the TV chirping Leafs players from a very young age, and being just so bitter when I’d get yet another Tie Domi hockey card in the Upper Deck packs…

Last week, I attended the Women in Strategy Summit here in NYC along with several colleagues. Overall, I was very pleased with the sessions, which featured impressive speakers from a wealth of industries — and the conference struck a great balance between the ‘women’ part of the title vs. the…

Typically, when I go to big conferences, I try and dabble a little bit in a variety of topics and spread myself thin to get a broad sense of what’s going on in the world. I expected I’d follow that strategy for my first ever trip to SXSW — but…