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Territory 2020 Reel
Featured films include: Blade Runner 2049, The Martian, Ready Player One, and more.

This ingenious airline seat will make flying coach less awful.
Luke Miles never felt comfortable in an economy airline seat. As founder and CCO for the U.K. design studio New Territory, …

Seed Investing Macrotrends: An Interview with Kelli Fontaine from Cendana Capital
Recently, Silicon Foundry had the opportunity to sit down for a conversation with Kelli Fontaine from Cendana Capital, a $1B AUM fund-of-funds that exclusively focuses on investing in Pre-seed and Seed VC funds.

Filming the Super Bowl and managing your own top talent culture.
Complacency doesn’t just affect employee cultures that are less than competent; it breeds in employee cultures that are extremely competent.

Your Data-Driven Marketing Is Harmful. I Should Know: I Ran Marketing at Google and Instagram
I didn’t know it at the time, but I was about to join my very last “performance calibration session.” This was late in 2018, when I was a managing director at Instagram…