One of the hardest things to do as a private co founder / CEO during wild market swings is “play your game.” There are so many perceived short term variables it’s really hard to stay focused. But, for those who do, the market eventually rewards great execution. Without fail. 🙏🚀

Freezing of assets will deliver an indispensable lesson to Putin. Putin launched his war against Ukraine in part to make Russia great again. Putin seemingly did not understand that violence is only one form of power, and not ultimately the most decisive. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Et tu Switzerland? nytimes.com/2022/02/28/wor…

1/ We are in inning 2-3 of the valuation reset in VC backed tech cos. For cos w/ plenty of $ (2+ years of runway) that don’t need to raise, the reset may feel less urgent + will take time to play out. But - long term planning around capital structure is still very (!) important.

The Clock of the Long Now. Make sure you hit those “down arrows” on each section of this web page. Note to self - Must visit West Texas. longnow.org/clock/

Most advice is about behavior change. And most advice doesn't work. That's because underneath any person's behavior, you have their motivational systems. There are five. By understanding these 5, you will transform your ability to change your behaviors and impact others...

On Stanford University campus (Engr Quad) attending a Sustainability Solutions for Portugal and California. I don’t think many people read plaques. I personally love them and the history. Here’s the plaque of donors The feedback loop of SV, VC, education/innovation is crystal clear here

I rarely read legal proceedings …this one was a treat. Clear and crisp writing that doesn’t need a law degree and makes very clear dismissal arguments…. “..a pie needs a pastry, and term paper needs a paper”….Kudos to these writers!

Awesome to see JoinContinuum unveil their new look! An exec talent marketplace makes so much sense - advisory, fractional and full-time. bit.ly/42KxyXl

Exactly 25 years ago today - on April 14th, 1998, at 8am in the morning, Eric Meyer leaned forward, tapped a few keys on his laptop, and launched Netflix to the world. That first day was a long one.  We crashed our servers. Ran out of mailing labels.  Scrambled to get everything

about.netflix.com/en/news/netfli… Time to build the next 25 year chapter….stay tuned..

The best “capture” of all of this is here. Amazon Prime only. Worth the watch for anyone in startups. amazon.com/Netflix-vs-Wor…

You can talk about your company’s culture until you’re blue in the face. You can put up the most beautiful posters in your break room and carve your values into the cornerstone of your building. But none of that will make the slightest bit of difference if your words don’t

“Shockingly simple”. Try it. It works!

In this episode of Turpentine Finance, Sasha Orloff sits down with Jim Cook dubbed the CFO Whisperer, after 30 years in Silicon Valley as CFO at Netflix, Intuit, and Mozilla. Jim shares CFO hiring mistakes and the misunderstandings most board members and investors have about

Yes, I have Instagram too. instagram.com/cooks_playbooks - might as well follow that too?

Cross posting from my Cook’s PlayBooks X account

OpenAi’s Operator announcement less than 24 hrs ago has me very intrigued. I probably know a bit more about browsers than most having spent 10+ yrs a Mozilla (Firefox Browser) openai.com/index/introduc… Here we essentially have ChatGpt meets a Browser. What is a browser?