Richard A. Greenwald

Richard A. Greenwald is a professor of history at Fairfield University in Connecticut and co-editor of Labor Rising: The Past and Future of Working People in America (The New Press, 2012). He is a columnist at UnHerd and the Daily Beast.

In The New Atlantis

Pitch Decks Are Eating the World

Startup lingo has colonized American life. Politicians “iterate.” Think tanks “pivot.” Cities hire “Chief Innovation Officers.” We all “scale” and “optimize.” And tech founders look at the inheritance of civilization and see a legacy codebase overdue for refactoring.