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Svyatoslav Biryulin

@sbiryulin1973

Contrarian strategist. I help startups and mature firms with strategy. I make the strategy process simple and clear so anyone can do it on their own.

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Notes of a Contrarian Strategist. Episode 40 is live! Today’s topics: Most Traditional Business Metrics Tell Only Part of the Story People in Hollywood are wiser than those in Silicon Valley A childish generation Read more in my latest newsletter: sbiryulin.com/blog/notes-of-…

Notes of a Contrarian Strategist. Episode 40 is live!

Today’s topics:

Most Traditional Business Metrics Tell Only Part of the Story

People in Hollywood are wiser than those in Silicon Valley

A childish generation

Read more in my latest newsletter: sbiryulin.com/blog/notes-of-…
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You can judge human rationality by this: a founder’s story about “believing in the dream” always gets more attention than statistics showing 9 out of 10 startups fail.

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Want to understand optimism? Just look at AI enthusiasts hoping to build superintelligence… …by training it on content from social media.

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Three immutable laws of marketing: 1. The customer must see value in the product. 2. The customer wants to feel part of a community. 3. “20% off until the end of the week” works better than both — and many other laws, for that matter.

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Entering a market without a unique product is like joining a lookalike contest—you might even win, but people will keep mistaking you for someone else.

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If someone inherits wealth, attends a top university, makes the right connections, works hard, and builds a successful business, by the time they start giving interviews about their success, all they’ll remember is how hard they worked.

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Good CEOs See the Distant Future. Great Ones Master the Near Term Two ideas and one simple tool for razor-sharp future thinking open.substack.com/pub/svyatoslav…

Good CEOs See the Distant Future. Great Ones Master the Near Term
Two ideas and one simple tool for razor-sharp future thinking
open.substack.com/pub/svyatoslav…
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The first reviews of Apple’s “liquid glass” design got me thinking: Steve Jobs is long gone, but his “customers don’t get a vote” energy lives on. Picture credit – unknown author

The first reviews of Apple’s “liquid glass” design got me thinking: Steve Jobs is long gone, but his “customers don’t get a vote” energy lives on.

Picture credit – unknown author