Member Brief: Brands Beating Bland

I don’t remember how I made it to Laredo from Houston, but I do remember the grain-free tortillas that Miguel Garza handed me after he and I ran repeat miles in the South Texas heat. It was a silly ritual that I looked forward to whenever training with him. Miguel was finishing law school while running a family gym called G7 Athletics. The consummate athlete, I never once beat him in those repeat miles. He had a sneaky way of pulling away without making a fuss over it. This skill would play to his advantage in the years to come.

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Member Brief: The New TAM

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At the turn of the 20th century, the popularity of the automobile relied upon the investment into paved roads. The popularity of internet-born brands will depend on infrastructural development of its own. To understand where we stand in this period in time, consider this John Steinbeck quote from 1962:

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Member Brief: War Games

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With the current administration’s target on TikTok and its proposed acquisition, I began to think about the second- and third-order effects of the politicization of the digital media and commerce markets. This is one of the first moments in American history where government policy proposed a limitation on a widely used consumer technology.

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