Startup Advice

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

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the companies that have a reputation for building the best products of this generation—Slack, Figma, Superhuman, Notion, and Linear—are basically new versions of successful predecessors. These companies didn’t distract themselves with four-step strategic maneuvers or clever wedges into a new category that they ... See more

I’ve come to learn through first-hand experience that monopolies often serve as the ideal competitor to take on. There are four main reasons why:

1. Monopolies have already proven the industry is viable and lucrative


2. Monopolies refuse to cannibalize their own dominance


3. Monopolies have institutionalized their inefficiencies


4. Monopolies have the most to los

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The archives of human cleverness are filled with blunders. When read in a good mood, history is a blooper reel. But it should not be lost on us that history never repeats, and modern technology enables ever more leverage. The more technology you can harness to commit an idea, and the faster your idea can spread, the greater the magnitude of somethi... See more

The success myth is a trap entrepreneurs fall into where they assume success will make their lives easier. But that’s not actually how success works in entrepreneurship. As you progress further into your entrepreneurial venture, the success and growth you achieve is going to lead to lots of challenges you weren’t expecting.

Your probability of winning a hand always depends on having multiple ways to win.

There are some SaaS Founders that are just doomed to fail. And it's not because startups have a high failure rate. It's also not because they lack talent. It's because they just refuse to embrace Go-To-Market and are too much in love with building product.