Max Beauroyre

This was extremely effective – so much so that buyers became inundated with emails, cold calls and LinkedIn messages (and then stopped replying). The overall volume of outbound has ballooned; it’s harder and harder to make manual BDR/SDR teams economical, especially if a startup hasn’t fully honed its ideal customer profile (ICP) and messaging.

Here’s a full list of the pillars I am exploring with my PHC:

• Content: creating and sharing content that offers new ideas and perspectives on life, work, and technology.


• Cash Cow: businesses that generate a steady flow of cash that can be reinvested across the PHC. Ideally, these businesses should be software-based that are acquired rather than st

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the creative process typically involves three steps:

Collecting: Gathering interesting ideas

Connecting: Drawing connections and organizing materials

Creating: Producing something new

“Do more, faster.” As AI commoditizes speed and output, however, this pursuit will lose its value.

“there was a loud and clear desire (1) to consolidate even more parts of the finance stack and (2) for Ramp to be that consolidation partner.”

As AI handles the coordination, what matters is talking to customers and learning to sell. The best prototype is worthless if you build without understanding or can't convince others of its value

I’m drawn to the idea of an art of living much more so than to the compulsive search for life hacks, regimens of self-improvement, or self-optimization schemes. These too often feel like a doubling down on the insistence that we can always do more if only we apply the right technique. They also suggest that the path to happiness involves the discov... See more