eyes on the prize

Idea? ✅ Domain? ✅ LLC? ✅ Bank Account? ✅ v1 Product? ✅ Landing Page? ✅ Waitlist? ⏲️

Grinding all weekend; launch imminent 🚀

Time to invoke the Defense Production Act

I talk to so many people who are joining startups for the first time that want to do “high level strategy work”. This is a bad goal and they won’t get to do much of it even under the very best circumstances. There is just very little of that kind of work to go around for

Got our first fake email signup. A milestone!

En route to my first Money 20/20 – let’s go! Money20/20

A lot of what is wrong w large organizations is the result of rewarding people for writing good essays.

S**t umbrella (blog post)

If you’ve forwarded the Shopify ai memo to your team but don’t know what to do next, here are a few specific things you can do to generate ai momentum in an org that’s not there yet: - simplify buying: get infosec and finance to give you a budget and fast tracked approval

You can't outsource taste