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Retailers: Don't Track Me, Bro

This is going to be BIG.

I was on the team that did a leveraged buyout of AMF, the bowling alley company--so I''ve looked at lots of plans to upgrade in venue customer marketing. I don''t freak out about being tracked, but I''m not every customer. I just think there''s going to be a very severe customer backlash against this.

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Out of the Crisis #14: Robert Rhinehart on the Corona Initiative, accelerating basic research, and finding a cure faster

Startup Lessons Learned

You really want to see how your company treats its employees, treats its customers, treats the environment, taking a longer-term view." I was developing a mesh network that I envisioned being useful in the developing world and for the internet of things. You really want to see the whole system. I really believed in selling hardware.