John Chen

John Chen Contributor Share on X John is a principal at Fika Ventures in Los Angeles. More posts by this contributor SaaS needs to take a page out of the crypto playbook How Silicon Valley should celebrate Labor Day

John is a principal at Fika Ventures in Los Angeles.

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SaaS needs to take a page out of the crypto playbook

The idea of directly incentivizing users is a common rallying cry in the crypto community: Imagine an internet free from monopoly tech giants where users control and monetize their own data.

How Silicon Valley should celebrate Labor Day

Ask any 25-year old engineer what Labor Day means to him or her, and you might get an answer like: it’s the surprise three-day weekend after a summer of vacationing. Or it’s the day everyone barbe

Rebuilding employee philanthropy from the bottom up

In tech circles, it would be easy to assume that the world of high-impact charitable giving is a rich man’s game where deals are inked at exclusive black tie galas over fancy hors d’oeuvre. Both

Distributed teams are rewriting the rules of office(less) politics

When we think about designing our dream home, we don’t think of having a thousand roommates in the same room with no doors or walls. Yet in today’s workplace where we spend most of our day, the pu

Blind loyalty

There is a secret behind every open office in Silicon Valley -- and it isn’t the drain on productivity. Tech companies have been the vanguards for pushing corporate culture forward toward “radi