The California Gold Rush brought over 300,000 people to The Golden State in the mid-19th century, promising treasures to travelers from other parts of the United States, Latin America, Europe, Australia, and China eager to strike it rich.  Unfortunately, the average forty-niner earned little more than they started with.

Blue and red seldom agree on anything these days, so when both camps find common ground on the same issue, it’s enough to make anyone’s ears perk up. Such was the case during last week’s Congressional Antitrust Subcommittee hearing, where four of tech’s biggest CEOs spent hours being grilled by Congress.

In December 2017, Evergreen ran three consecutive newsletters on that period’s investment zeitgeist: an uncontrollable, insatiable, and undeniable appetite for risk. This enthusiasm for risk manifested itself in an other-worldly rise in some of the planet’s most speculative assets.

For years, the concept of ‘the cloud’ was as cloudy as a winter morning in Seattle, Washington.  It seemed that only the techiest of tech people understood what the term meant and even fewer had a grasp on how the technology would revolutionize businesses, industries, and economies.

When we published the first edition of The Sprint to 5G last March, we made the case that evolutions in the telecom industry typically take place once a decade and that the 2020s will be an era defined by the rollout and adoption of 5G.