Brunswick Group just dropped their 2026 U.S. Investor Survey: perspectives from 100 institutional buy-side investors, half long-only, half hedge funds, 80%+ from firms with $1B+ AUM. Required-reading for every public company exec, corp comms, and IR team. 📈🔬 A few things

Enjoyed my wide ranging conversation with S Matthew Schultz. What a journey he's been on at @cleanspark ($CLSK)! This episode of Marketopolis (by Benzinga) is full of lessons for execs, builders, and investors.

🚨 NEW MARKETOPOLIS EPISODE 🚨 John Fieldly, Chairman & CEO of Celsius Holdings (CELSIUS Energy Drink), joins Marketopolis to break down Celsius’ rise from turnaround story to one of the fastest-growing brands in energy. Fieldly discusses the shift toward “better-for-you” energy,

.Nextdoor Co-Founder & CEO Nirav Tolia on why small business were left behind in digital - they lost distribution with the decline of TV and newspapers. Now AI can turn trusted neighbor recommendation into powerful ads. $NXDR Full Episode: youtu.be/LPZzTNOiznw?si…

thinking: products that help humans get credit for the work accomplished by agents they supervise in the enterprise will have better adoption than agentic solutions that do the work instead of humans. credit feeds ego, drives adoption...and accountability.

14 episodes into Marketopolis and here's what the best public company CEOs keep doing: -Address pain points head-on -Lead with origin stories, not just numbers -Simplify the thesis -Treat retail investors as a real constituency blog.stakeholderlabs.com/p/season-1-of-…

.Nextdoor Co-Founder & CEO Nirav Tolia talks about how founders see their companies differently than operators. It’s less like a job and more like something they feel responsible for, "almost like children". Full Episode: youtu.be/LPZzTNOiznw?si…

.Nextdoor Co-Founder & CEO Nirav Tolia explains that people understand AI theoretically but don’t practice it like a discipline. The gap is in application. Full Episode: youtu.be/LPZzTNOiznw?si…

Required reading for all late-stage founders and operators who have dreams of an IPO. Jim Prosser gives you the comms / IR / strategy playbook. 📈🔬

Reputation is a coefficient on valuation A company like OpenAI could invest $1 billion in comms/marketing/public affairs and it’d still be a great deal Reputation regularly swings market cap >10%. Investing 1% in comms over time is not unreasonable