SaaStr: “Multi-product is the strategy of the decade. Atlassian. HubSpot. Datadog. Monday. Notion. The list goes on. Best case, your happy customers buy more from you and your ACVs expand dramatically. Worst case, they still use it, are happier, and churn less. Most of us regret not having gone multi-product earlier. 2026 is the year to fix that. And here’s the AI angle: your second product could be an AI-native capability that opens up entirely new use cases and budget pools. Think about it.”
Diginomica: “I think 2026 will be the year of the website. It’s where marketers will need to spend a lot of their time, rethinking how the website will be a part of the buyer journey. The website may no longer be the front door of your brand. Instead, it will become the foundation that supplies truth and context of your brand, your products and services. The focus must be to re-design for both machines and humans. That will require experimentation with conversational interfaces, technical architecture changes to supply as much information as possible without overwhelming people, and tying technical information with brand narrative. This might be one of the biggest evolutions for the brand website, and one of the hardest. Because as soon as you think you have it right, something will change again.”
Henry Oliver: “Some writers make their novels out of beautiful, well-turned sentences, and some from flowing pages. In the popular jargon, some novelists work at the level of the sentence, crafting their worked-upon language, while others are immersive story-tellers. This second type of writer is more liable to be dismissed by highbrow, aesthete, or flat-out pretentious reviewers, while the first type is likely to be found wanting by a certain sort of practitioner-critic. If there is still such a thing as highbrows who hate middlebrows, this is the topic on which the highs will be roused to a bear-like defence of the narrow principles they hold to be dear and self-evident. In The Loneliness of Sunny and Sonia, as in her previous two novels (The Inheritance of Loss and Hullaballoo in the Guava Orchard), Kiran Desai is squarely the second type of author. There is nothing wrong with her sentences: many are lovely, and some of them have an aphoristic turn: but she writes pages, not phrases: one often feels the sharp pull at the end of her chapters as the curtain falls, suddenly, and cuts us off from the immersion we had reached. One feels, too, the lack of craft in some of her sentences. But that is no matter: indeed, much of the time, it is part of how she makes her immersive pages.”
Kyla Scanlon: “Why my generation is turning to ‘Financial Nihilism’…It might seem reckless for Gen Z to gamble money on meme coins and sports, but many of us have lost confidence in the traditional ladder of success.”
Sam Altman: “The thing I’m personally most excited about is to use AI and lots of compute to discover new science. I am a believer that scientific discovery is the high-order bit of how the world gets better for everybody. And if we can throw huge amounts of compute at scientific problems and discover new knowledge—the tiniest bit is starting to happen now, it’s very early, these are very small things. But my learning in the history of this field is once the squiggles start and it lifts off the x-axis a little bit, we know how to make that better and better. But that takes huge amounts of compute to do. So that’s one area—throwing lots of AI at discovering new science, curing disease, lots of other things.”
