For most of my career I believed I was building products but looking back, I was mostly building org charts. Every real scaling problem I hit — Weedmaps…
For most of my career I believed I was building products but looking back, I was mostly building org charts. Every real scaling problem I hit — Weedmaps…
Most advice about building a company is the answer to a puzzle. The hardest parts were never puzzles. In 1921, the economist Frank Knight drew a line that…
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…
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…
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