You must take the tide at its flood.

That is the sad lesson of organizational leadership.

You may like your colleagues.  You may like where you work.  You may even like what you do.

But there are times when you must loose the ropes that bind you to shore and start the journey afresh.

Vinny at the end of SidePocket

Seventh in our re-release of the AudioDrama: SidePocket

• Sahara Ale – Jessie
• Zoe Anastassiou – Narrator: Maddie, the 8 Year Old Entrepreneur
• Ron Bianchi – San
• Geoffrey Grier – Vinny
• Josh LaForce – Carl the VC
• Jake Minevich – Julio
• Skippy – Himself

You see the need.

You found a way to get the money.

You make the move.

You’re board doesn’t like it.

But you’re ok, right?  I mean, you did the right thing?  And your board will come along, don’t you think?  Afterall, you are innovating.  But then comes the break.

Sixth in our re-release of the AudioDrama: SidePocket

• Sahara Ale – Jessie
• Zoe Anastassiou – Narrator: Maddie, the 8 Year Old Entrepreneur
• Debbon Ayer – Karen from CalFed
• Ron Bianchi – Thomas from IBM
• Geoffrey Grier – Vinny
• Josh LaForce – Carl the VC
• Cariad O’Brien – Molly
• Skippy – Himself

Your face on the cover of a magazine.

What does it matter?  (Who knows what a magazine even is, anymore?)

Success has come to Vinny but how long will it stay?

Fifth in our re-release of the AudioDrama: SidePocket

• Sahara Ale – Jessie
• Margaux Amie – Violet
• Zoe Anastassiou – Narrator: Maddie, the 8 Year Old Entrepreneur
• Ron Bianchi – Jim/Kim/Tim/HIM
• Geoffrey Grier – Vinny
• Cariad O’Brien – Molly
• Skippy – Himself

They make you work.

They take your money.

They expect you to like it.

But sometimes.  Sometimes.  There is another option.

A chaotic trip through San Jose suggests a new strategy.

Fourth in our re-release of the audio drama: SidePocket

• Sahara Ale – Jessie
• Zoe Anastassiou – Narrator: Maddie, the 8 Year Old Entrepreneur
• Debbon Ayer – Karen the Banker
• Ron Bianchi – Rick
• Geoffrey Grier – Vinny
• Josh LaForce – Carl the VC
• Cariad O’Brien – Molly
• Skippy – Himself

Blame the bosses.

A tried and effective strategy.

And some times, it is actually true.

But grudges can blind our eyes, leaving us with a moment of self satisfaction and not much more.

Jessie misplays her hand

Third in our re-release of the audio drama: SidePocket

• Sahara Ale – Jessie
• Zoe Anastassiou – Narrator: Maddie, the 8 Year Old Entrepreneur
• Geoffrey Grier – Vinny
• Josh LaForce – Carl the VC
• Cariad OBrien – Molly
• Skippy – Himself

Things sometimes go well.

Or so we hope.

Our new tech entrepreneur is in a new city with a new company, a new investment and a new start.

Maybe.

Or maybe not.

Vinny and SidePocket start operations in Silicon Valley.  The second episode in the audio drama.

• Sahara Ale – Jessie
• Zoe Anastassiou – Maddie, the 8 Year Old Entrepreneur
• Geoffrey Grier – Vinny
• Josh LaForce – Carl the VC
• Cariad OBrien – Molly
• Skippy – Himself

It’s an ordinary story.

And perhaps a bit of a fantasy.

But perhaps our time  could benefit from an ordinary story.

A young African-American leaves Detroit in the mid-1980s to see what he might do in Silicon Valley and in the process, learns something about investment, governance and decisions (both good and bad).  Revisiting the audio drama of Vinny and SidePocket

• Zoe Anastassiou – Maddie, the 8 Year Old Entrepreneur
• Geoffrey Grier – Vinny
• Noah Masur – Curt
• Sahara Ale – Jessie
• Jake Minevich – Dennis
• Skippy – Himself

Thomas Piketty?

Don’t get what he’s saying?

Not sure you care?

Zach, who is back, and Maddie, who has never left tell us what is important about the writings of this economist

Or maybe not.

Dr. Piketty wrote one of the more controversial book of the past 10 years.  Maddie will tell you why.

And “R” makes and appearance.  But not “G”.

• Zoe Anastassiou – Maddie, the 8 Year Old Entrepreneur
• Noah Masur – Zach, who is back
• Skippy – Himself

Are you coming?

Are you going?

Do you have a place in this world?

Or do you not?

Roger.  Yasmin.  Existential questions.  And the power of warm drinks.

The nineteenth  episode of the Audio Drama “What Big Tech Doesn’t Know.”

• Sahara Ale – Yasmin
• Zoe Anastassiou – Faith
• Ron Bianchi  – Roger
• Geoffrey Grier – Customer #1
• Josh LaForce – Customer #2
• Noah Masur – Barista & Andre
• Skippy – Himself