The Quiet After the Storm The calls have stopped. The relentless flow of crises that once defined your day has subsided. For the first time in perhaps thirty years, your calendar isn't a multicoloured tapestry of back-to-back meetings. You’ve handed in your pass, the leaving drinks are
Tuesday 10 March 2026 When Jack Dorsey announced that Block, the fintech firm formerly known as Square, was shedding 4,000 jobs, he didn't cite financial distress. Instead, he pointed to a brighter future, one powered by artificial intelligence where smaller, nimbler teams could achieve more than ever
The End of The Corridor There’s a strange quiet that descends when a C-suite career ends. One day, your calendar is a game of Tetris played in 15-minute blocks, your phone a constant barrage of strategic imperatives and operational fires. The next, it’s silent. For many senior executives,
The Uncomfortable Silence The leaving drinks are over. The inbox has been redirected. The security pass, once a symbol of status and access, is now a useless piece of plastic on your kitchen counter. For the first time in decades, there is no 7 a.m. strategy call, no board
Beneath the headlines of mass redundancies lies an unprecedented opportunity for scaling companies. Here's what the smartest leaders are doing right now. LONDON, 7 March 2026 – At Oracle, the technology behemoth built on databases and relentless acquisition, a chilling number is circulating through the corridors: 30,000. That’
Block's 4,000-Person Purge and Oracle's AI Gambit: Welcome to the Great Executive Restructuring of 2026 Saturday, 7 March 2026 The craft beer darling BrewDog just shuttered 38 of its bars and made nearly 500 people redundant. In California, Supernal, a futuristic maker of electric flying
Saturday, 7 March 2026. On a sterile conference call that lasted less time than it takes to brew a pot of coffee, nearly 500 BrewDog employees were informed their jobs were gone. The Scottish brewer, once a darling of the craft scene, had entered administration and its new owner, US-based
Series-A Blog
Last week, Carr Riggs & Ingram — a Top 25 accounting firm — acquired CFO Hub, a fractional CFO practice based in San Diego. The press release talked about "national footprint expansion" and "high-demand fractional leadership market." I read it twice. Not because it surprised me. Because it
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Last Tuesday, a fractional CFO I've been working with sent me a screenshot. CPA Practice Advisor, announcing that Carr Riggs & Ingram — a Top 25 accounting firm — had just acquired CFO Hub, a San Diego-based fractional finance practice. "Is this good news or bad news?" she
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I was on a call last week with a fractional CFO who'd just finished her third portfolio company engagement in eighteen months. All three came through VC intros. All three ended messily. Not because she wasn't good. She's exceptional — twenty years at the sharp