If you like startups you should love anti-trust

Why do companies that were once the face of the anti-establishment startup world inexorably become the very sort of business that they were built to destroy? There’s no single reason, and many of the ways that tech companies become their parents are innocuous. A new generation of … | Continue reading


@alexwrites.substack.com | 1 year ago

Why no one covered your early-stage round

I don’t have an editor for this personal blog, so feel free to send typos to equitypod@techcrunch.com. Thanks! — Alex Yesterday I tweeted a joke post on TechCrunch about why the publication I write for might not cover your seed round. Based on the somewhat outsized response to th … | Continue reading


@alexwrites.substack.com | 3 years ago

Taking Care of Others as Self-Care

I don’t have a copy editor for this personal blog. Please send all typos and corrections to r.lawler@samsungnext.com. Thanks! - A I’m an anxious person. It’s not a new thing, I’ve been this way since I can remember. There’s a pseudo-cute story in my family about a picnic we had w … | Continue reading


@alexwrites.substack.com | 5 years ago