I’ve been saying “polymorphic cultures” for a year and I’ve never actually written down what I mean by it. The term has shown up in podcast interviews, LinkedIn…
One week ago I announced Grazier Ventures and Aqen.ai. Since then I’ve been asked a version of the same question about a dozen times: how are you actually going…
I’ve spent 15+ years building things inside other people’s companies. This week I started building one of my own. It’s called Aqen.ai. You bring the idea. Aqen brings everything else…
Every few months someone posts a screenshot of a one-person company doing a million dollars a year. The replies split clean in half. One side calls it the…
A few weeks ago I shipped a phone app that lets residents measure the speed of cars on their street. The thing I learned building it wasn’t about…
Every time I’ve watched a company get built from the inside, the same thing happens. The founders pick a product direction, start shipping, and for a few quarters…
Or: why knowing every new AI tool is the wrong flex I was at Lowe’s last weekend staring at the oscillating multi-tool wall. Fourteen variants. Corded, cordless, brushless,…
Two things happened last week that look unrelated but aren’t. JPMorgan told its 65,000 engineers and technologists that AI tool usage is now part of their performance reviews.…
Everyone’s vibe coding the next todo app. The next AI wrapper. The next SaaS dashboard that solves a problem three other SaaS dashboards already solved. I vibe coded…
Silicon Valley has a new competitive sport, and it’s exactly the mistake you think it is. The New York Times reported last week that engineers at Meta, OpenAI,…