Blog - David DeWolf

How the Shift from Growth to Performance Economy Impacts Your Business Strategy

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August 15, 2023

Artificial intelligence will fundamentally change the way companies of all shapes and sizes operate. In fact, of the nearly $16 trillion dollars of economic value that PwC predicts will accrue…

Why We Need to Walk Before We Run With Superintelligence

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July 13, 2023

While I was putting the final touches on last week’s post about why AI requires a return to the humanities, OpenAI published this blog and announced a major investment in…

Why the Greatest Invention of All Time is Revitalizing the Humanities

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July 6, 2023

One of the great benefits of being “retired” for the last 6 months has been having a free mind to observe. One thing, in particular, has struck me more than…

Hello, World!

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June 27, 2023

It’s been 6 months since I announced my departure from 3Pillar, the product development company I founded in 2006 and led as CEO through the end of 2022. As I’ve…

Announcing a Big — and Welcome — Change in 2023

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December 16, 2022

Throughout this week, I’ve announced to our team and clients that, effective January 1, I will begin serving 3Pillar exclusively as an active Board member. I am both peaceful with…

The 6 Foundations of Building a Rapidly Scaling Company

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September 15, 2022

I often say that building a successful business is one of the hardest things in the world to do. If you can get it right and do it successfully, it’s…

How I Choose Companies to Invest In

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September 6, 2022

I’ve been an angel investor since 2016, when DeWolf Family Ventures made our first angel investment in a wearables company called Valencell. Valencell and its founder, Dr. Steven LeBoeuf, showed…

3 Clues That Your Business is a Software Company…and a Dead Giveaway That It’s Not

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August 30, 2022

It’s fashionable in today’s digital economy to claim that your bank or retail store is a software company. The disruption of nearly every industry sector by tech startups has traditional…

What’s in My Media Diet?

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August 22, 2022

Catching COVID in December 2020 was life-changing for me, although not exactly for the reasons you might think. What was most life-changing about my experience was that it helped me…

How I Prep for a Board Meeting (as a Board Member)

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August 10, 2022

In my latest blog post, I shared five tips on How I Prep for a Board Meeting as a CEO. In addition to being CEO of 3Pillar, I also sit…