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A follow-up to Donut Lab: a study in deception in venture-backed technology, published 25 March 2026. If you haven’t read it already, go and have a look (please do, it’ll make what’s below make a lot more sense) then come back here. There is a German company called CT Coatings whose patent portfolio covers screen-printed […]

Most of the new software being built right now will never have more than one user. One person, one team, or one company. The industry thinks that is a failure. I think it is the entire point; and that it signals the end of the fifty-year compromise that created the SaaS industry, and the beginning […]

GitHub’s platform uptime over the last 90 days is 86.98%. That is not a typo. Marek Šuppa, who built an independent tracker because GitHub stopped publishing aggregate uptime numbers on its own status page, has reconstructed the figure from GitHub’s incident feeds. IncidentHub counted 257 separate incidents between May 2025 and April 2026, 48 of […]

There’s a question I get asked very frequently at investor events: why did we choose to float Raspberry Pi, the company I co-founded, on the London Stock Exchange rather than in New York, where valuations appear to be much higher? Surely we were leaving money on the table by IPO-ing in London? And I really […]