Author: Joel Gross

Private Equity firms are a serious drain on our country. Most operate by trying to hack our free market system. They either saddle companies with huge debts while stealing all the cash (Toys R Us), or they try to build monopolies by rolling up all the companies in an industry. Private Equity hurts the customers and the employees of these businesses as they attempt to enrich themselves.

​https://www.cjr.org/watchdog/lottery-winners-foia-reporting.php

Only total war tactics win out…. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/world/middleeast/syria-isis-convoy-us.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage

I strongly believe we need a global government for several reasons:

1. Every major company and government is working on building artificial intelligence to gain an advantage over other people… but superintelligent AI will have vast advantages over our species and could result in our extinction. We need a global government to regulate and protect against this possibility as I believe it will happen in the next five years.

I really enjoyed reading this Glassdoor review of Coalition as I think it most accurately reflects the experience of most of our team members: https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-CT-RVW14968405.htm

I recently promoted a new President to run operations at Coalition and also a Director of Marketing to lead our marketing team. I am hopeful that these two will free up my time to work on improving the structure of the company (processes, checklists, software, etc).

I have been fortunate to be able to spend a lot of time with my family while I have been working from Coalition’s Seattle office.

I am making tons of progress on my recruiting site. I am hoping to upgrade it to Laravel 5.5 and PHP 7 this month as well as make other upgrades that will allow it to be used by other companies!

I think it would be a good idea to buy a farm or something to live on with all the uncertainty in the world right now.