Eric Boromisa

There is a metric making the rounds in boardrooms and VC pitches right now that sounds deceptively smart: Revenue Per Employee. The idea is clean and the math is easy. For a certain kind of investor scanning a spreadsheet at 11pm, it tells a flattering story about how efficiently a company is running. But as a way to evaluate whether a business is actually healthy, it has some serious blind spots that are starting to show up in uncomfortable ways. The logic goes like this: if Company A...

Everyone says they want young people to develop critical thinking skills. Schools print it in mission statements. Companies slip it into job descriptions. Parents repeat it at dinner like it is a vitamin. But ask ten adults to define it, and the answers start sounding like a group project that nobody prepared for. Critical thinking is not about sounding smart. It is about seeing clearly. Clarity usually comes from friction. Different viewpoints. Messy experiences. The occasional realization...

There’s a new fantasy circulating in tech and venture circles: the idea that a single founder, armed with AI tools and a few APIs, can build a billion-dollar company alone. It’s a compelling story. But it’s an illusion. It’s also not the best way of doing business. Let’s be blunt. If someone claims they built everything themselves, there are usually only two possibilities: They had collaborators whose contributions were minimized or hidden behind NDAs. They are redefining “alone” to mean...