808 Insights

I had 63 meetings across IBC and the Devoncroft summit this year, most of them with CEOs and founders. I expected the usual mix of product news and market chatter. What came back, conversation after conversation, had very little to do with what was on the stands.

The same six themes kept surfacing. On its own, each one is a hiring problem. Together they point to something bigger, which I will come to at the end.