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Having a landing page in which users can ask the most complex sales tax use-case they have and we surface how we cover it, the problem we solve for th

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Brand matters to us, greatly. It's one of the four major reasons people get recommended PostHog so directly helps us grow. Everyone else is largely te

persistence Execution You can just do things

what i learned by staying at Abacum What i learned this year Where i want to go next and why

Why am i staying and why i know it's a good time to leave

the reasons for my sadhana

Anxiety of incompetence: my skills are devalued and i have to learn new onesAnxiety of irrelevance: people might not relate to, value, or think about

Without personal moats, we may find ourselves in a perpetually evolving, seemingly more meritocratic game.

how will AI affect how ADs work? especially if we now have agents browsing the internet for us? how far away are we from that being the reality and t

We live in a culture that venerates productivity above all else. For centuries, success—particularly in the West—has hinged on a simple dictum: “Do mo

persistence Execution You can just do things

To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal— to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take

“My theory is that chasing things that scale makes you need therapy, and the therapy is pursuing things that can’t scale. The antidote to burnout and

A-players create success while B-players participate in success.

Before a candidate meets with me, I send them a list of questions to respond to in writing. It allows me to see how structured their thinking is and h

The distortion is exacerbated by the fact that people building profitable companies outside the sphere of the VC dominion have little systemic need to

If you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly inv

To win, a company needs to own either a client’s most important data or its most important workflow

“People early in their career should learn from computer science: meander some in your walk (especially early on), randomly drop yourself into new par

“There is a natural human tendency to make the next step an upward one. He ends up falling for a common trap highlighted by behavioral economists: peo

The death of the press release Why launching products on social media is the only way to go Recently I've been working with a lot of early startups a

The biggest blocker is demand gen

Find your concentric cirlces to grow your demand

Rippling onboarding promoted posts

The Silicon Valley small business, the SV-SB, is a hybrid of sorts — it intertwines small business values and discipline with big tech know-how and am

most businesses don’t last forever, and they don’t need to.

I’m a fan of companies that operate like studios with the awareness that they’ll create a series of seasonal hits and try to capture value along the w

company-building cliches that are true (so true, it's tempting to overlook them.) 1/ high-performing people are very responsive 2/ feedback is a gif

There’s a reason why the most popular words in tech right now are acceleration, destruction, disruption. Have you figured out what they want to destro

He sees the hunger people have for a wisdom and nourishing that algorithms and devices don’t provide—but the humanities can. This is the real crisis i

Here are eight imperatives—all of them drawing strength and sustenance from the humanities:We need a way of defining and pursuing progress that doesn’