Andy Rachleff in his famous class at Stanford “Aligning Start-ups with their market” teaches that a common misconception is that technology disrupts markets or companies, but it is not technology, but business models that disrupt markets and companies. Technology is merely an enabler of this new business, a new method to create and capture value.

We all have to make this choice. We have to make it few times in our life. This is my attempt to synthesis broad frameworks I have learnt from Andy Rachleff (Benchmark, Wealthfront) and Eric Schmidt (Google). This has helped me, and I hope the same for you.

Many start-ups are building artificial intelligence products for businesses to use. There are hundreds of machine learning, computer vision or deep learning businesses propping every week.

Everyone has a boss. Someone said this, and is true.

You are likely to manage people and be managed by someone. If you are a freelancer, it could be your clients. If you are an entrepreneur, it could be your board. Since we will all share this fate, we must try to understand the kind of managers that you might encounter and more importantly, understand the type of manager you want to be.