What is The Leverage?
There is an urgent need to update your information diet and perspective on technology markets.
The Leverage is a fiercely independent, rigorous, and beautiful publication devoted to solving that problem. I started it because I desperately needed this product to exist.
Why? Consider the scale and speed of changes happening in tech and media right now:
LLMs are challenging the very nature of knowledge work and creativity.
Frontier technologies in quantum mechanics, biotech, and VR/AR offer potential paradigm shifts in science and consumer behavior.
The current U.S. administration is actively attempting to reshape the global financial order.
Venture capital is ripe for disruption with a broken IPO market and too much capital seeking too few deals.
With all these changes happening all at once, the old way of doing things doesn’t work anymore. Businesses need to reevaluate their strategy, and consumers have to proactively remake their careers or risk being left behind.
The Leverage exists to help you navigate through this murk. It does so through two types of publishing:
The Weekend Leverage: One concise email that cuts through the week’s noise—key data, patents, financings, and the single takeaway that actually matters. Free, every week.
The Deep Dives: One or two paywalled essays each week, answering the hardest “so what?” questions with a play‑by‑play strategy analysis.
Who writes The Leverage?
I’m an investor, writer, analyst, new dad, and cinephile. I’ve been operating and investing in Silicon Valley for years now. In that time I’ve partnered with top decile VC funds in sourcing and evaluating deals and scaled multiple software companies past $10M in ARR. For the last four years, I’ve worked as the Lead Writer at Every, a AI and media company, growing it to over 100K subscribers. As a writer, I delight in the craft. I care about prose, about being analytically rigorous, and about making your reading experience the best on the internet.
My goal isn’t just analysis, it’s helping you build taste. I want you to feel what comes next the way a great investor senses momentum before the chart shows it. That demands rigor, beauty, curation, individualism, and the kind of curiosity the New York Times or TechCrunch can’t provide. If I do my job, every sentence will be delightful and every mote of analysis will be insightful.
You’ll note this is a wildly ambitious mandate. That’s deliberate. I view my job as delivering a top 1% product of the market—otherwise, what is the point of doing this at all?
Most importantly it can’t happen without you. The Leverage requires readers who are willing to engage, to argue, and yes, to subscribe. If you want to join me on that journey, you can support me with the button below.
