Bryan is an entrepreneur in San Francisco. He founded Bleacher Report, and currently advises several startups. Previously, he was a failed investment banker. You can follow him on Twitter.
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It’s time to throw in the towel on Apple
Come on, everyone, it’s time to move on from Apple. There’s nothing to see here. It’s just another “has been” company — one that fell from grace in the eyes of its investors. You can think of it as the Lance Armstrong of companies. Oh, that it were only four months ago. I remember when the stock was trading at... -
Thank God for San Francisco’s gay community
Next week, the city will be considering a measure to positively reform the most prevalent form of entrepreneurship — home ownership. In a city as transient as ours, where Boston yuppies and Southern dreamers come for a few years out of college so that they can one day tell their kids about “the California years,” I salute home owners. There’s... -
Please 2013, be the year of “shut up and work”
Dear Year 2013, Bore me. Please, for the love of God, bore the crap out of me. I want you to bore me with one of those stock markets that only goes up or down a few dozen points each day. I want the talking heads on CNBC to fall asleep, and Business Insider’s headlines to be in lower case... -
A world safe for 39-year-olds
The world used to be a safe place for 39-year olds. The world was bigger, and there were fewer rules for how to succeed. When things went wrong, you could skip town like Jean Valjean and maybe you would end up a hero someplace else. And history was full of people who were nobody at the age of 39, and... -
Loyalty cannot be faked
I don’t need to tell anybody about the importance of loyalty. In the startup world, it is the alpha and the omega trait. Loyalty is important everywhere, but in a startup it is particularly important. Why? Because so many jobs are new, unique, and specific to the person holding that job — if they leave, it’s basically impossible to replace... -
Finance lost. Tech won. Here’s why…
I failed at investment banking. And it wasn’t this soft, cheery type of failure that we celebrate in Silicon Valley. It was a real failure. In 2004, I was part of an internship class of about 100 college juniors at Credit Suisse First Boston. All but one of them was offered a fulltime job at the bank. Guess who the... -
Young people are screwed… Here’s how to survive
Hey kids, you’ve all read “The Hunger Games,” right? Almost all young people have read the best-selling books or seen the Hollywood movie about Katniss Everdeen, a smart and ambitious young lady whose life prospects are diminished by historical events that predate her. What little hope she has is seemingly reduced to nil when a bunch of old people drop... -
Your 2013 resolution: Come to terms with being “only” an engineer
There are so many problems with the world. History will no doubt look back at the last half-decade and talk about how awful it was. Just a few of the ills include: high unemployment, collapsing home prices, violence across the world, and political gridlock that never seems to end. Young Americans with recent college degrees are particularly... -
Muni is 100 years old. Too bad it won’t die like a human that age
San Francisco’s municipal transportation has finally reached the tender age of 100 years. Unfortunately, it refuses to keel over, die, get cremated, and be forgotten about. And that’s a shame. Because it really needs to just go away. Somehow Muni– like too many other things in San Francisco– is the antithesis of everything Silicon Valley itself stands...
