Collapse the talent stack every chance you get .

As I reflect on the teams I’ve led and hundreds of start-ups I’ve worked with, there is a consistent unfair competitive advantage i’ve witnessed when the talent stack was collapsed - when the lead designer was also the product leader, when the front-end engineer was also a designer, when the designer... See more

Collapse the talent stack every chance you get . As I reflect on the teams I’ve led and hundreds of start-ups I’ve worked with, there is a consistent unfair competitive advantage i’ve witnessed when the talent stack was collapsed - when the lead designer was also the product leader, when the front-end engineer was also a designer, when the designer... See more

For leaders, this means rethinking what it means to build an organization. The most effective companies will be those that can orchestrate talent across traditional boundaries—full-time employees, contractors, gig workers, AI agents—around shared purposes rather than hierarchical control. The organizational challenge of the next decade is invention... See more