Ariana Pletta

1 month ago | battery.com | Ariana Pletta |Dharmesh Thakker

Former Intel CEO Andy Grove wrote a book more than two decades ago called “Only the Paranoid Survive.” Intel took that mantra to heart for many years, reinventing itself multiple times and pushing to stay ahead of technology trends. I had a front-row seat to Intel’s aggressiveness, working as an intern at the company 30 years ago and, later, as an investor with the company’s Intel Capital venture-capital unit.

2 months ago | battery.com | Ariana Pletta |Dharmesh Thakker

Today’s financial advisors are operating in a dramatically shifting market. Consolidation and competition have changed firm dynamics as advisors try to provide more comprehensive wealth-management services to their clients, often leaving small advisors squeezed. At the same time, there’s huge promise and opportunity related to the fact that, over the next two decades, Baby Boomers are expected to pass down roughly $84 trillion to their heirs, who will presumably need help investing all that cash.