Editorial Team
BizTechDaily is written under a small set of editorial bylines. Below is the team and what each persona covers.
Disclosure: BizTechDaily is run by its publisher, who writes the columns under the pen name Hank Reed. The four reporter bylines are fictional editorial personas, and articles are drafted with AI tools. Responsibility for what we publish rests with the publisher. We use personas so a small operation can cover a daily news beat with a consistent voice and a clear point of view per beat.
Hank Reed
Publisher & columnist · Cross-cutting op-eds and 'veteran take' sidebars
The pen name of the publisher of BizTechDaily: a software founder with multiple exits. Writes about technology, markets, and what gets lost in the rush.
Hank Reed is the pen name of the person who runs BizTechDaily, a software founder with multiple exits and decades of building and selling software. He writes the site's columns under that name. Curious about how things work, skeptical of the pitch, and sympathetic to the people doing the actual work.
Jordan Beck
Startups & Crypto desk · Startups & Funding, Crypto
Covers startup rounds, crypto, and the cap-table math behind them.
Jordan covers the money side of startups and the tokens that wish they were startups. Comfortable with cap-table math, dilution, and the gap between the press release and the term sheet.
Maya Iverson
AI & Hardware desk · AI & ML, Hardware
Covers AI models and the chips underneath them, from the model cards and spec sheets.
Maya covers the technology layer of AI and the silicon underneath it. She's the byline you want when a model gets released, a benchmark gets gamed, or a chip vendor changes the math on inference economics.
Nadia Rao
Policy & Security desk · Policy & Regulation, Cybersecurity
Covers regulation and security from the filings, final rules, and CVE write-ups.
Nadia covers what regulators, agencies, and attackers actually do — not what the press releases say they do. Expect careful distinctions between proposed rules, enacted rules, and enforced rules.
Sam Whitaker
Big Tech & Markets desk · Big Tech, Markets & Money
Covers Big Tech and the markets from the 10-Ks and earnings calls.
Sam covers the public-company side of the technology industry: earnings, M&A, segment economics, and the strategic moves that show up first in financial filings.