We build and back companies around one question: what will people do differently now that this technology exists?
After possible. Before obvious.That gap creates a window. Most businesses can see the technology. Far fewer see what people will do because of it.
Shama Hyder first built inside one of those windows during the rise of social media, founding Zen Media and leading it for 17 years.
Today, Hyder Ground is doing it again as AI changes how people work, communicate, buy, and build.
We back founders building for the same shift.
The discipline of seeing market shifts early, interpreting what they mean for your organization, and acting while the window is still open.
It's the same operating system Hyder Ground uses to decide what to build and back. Shama teaches it through keynotes, her book Six Signals, Rewired, the Hyder Index, and her writing.
What we learn in the market becomes what we teach.
And what we teach sharpens what we spot next.
Shama built Zen Media during the rise of social media and led it for 17 years — a front-row seat to what happens when technology changes what people do. Today she leads Hyder Ground across its ventures, investments, research, and teaching.
Six Signals, the Hyder Index, research, and writing live here as ways to understand how markets and organizations respond to change.
A monthly read on the gap between how fast the world changes and how fast organizations respond.
See this month's Index →Research and essays on what's shifting and what it means, on The Hyder Ground.
Read on Substack →The book: Strategic Urgency, or how to see first, decide fast, and act on what matters most. Simon & Schuster, 2027.
Explore Six Signals →Not everything we create has to become a company. Hyder Ground is also home to Shama's fiction and cultural storytelling — beginning with Preity Harrow.
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