Max Beauroyre

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 terrible at it so it's a massive opportunity to build a long term advantage as a company, and frankly it's fun.

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

The answer was speed. Historically, chip makers needed 18 months to take a new product from inception to launch. Given the industry’s rate of progress, that meant each of these chips were woefully out of date by the time they hit the shelves. When a competitor launched its offering six months later, it would not just be marginally better, but... See more

Back in the 1980s, he told me, consulting firms were useful. Thanks to the corporate raiders of that era and the loosening of antitrust laws during the Reagan administration, acquisitions became the hot new trend, as big companies began acquiring other big companies. That meant that employees were going to be fired. Integrating two company cultures... See more

OpenAI has identified their moat, and it's not the model quality. It's context and memory.

Think about what makes an AI assistant truly valuable. It's not just answering questions—it's understanding your specific situation, remembering your past conversations, knowing your preferences, and building on previous interactions. The AI that knows you've... See more

Diego Zaks, Ramp’s VP of Design, says that the company’s goal remains for its customers to NOT spend time on Ramp. They benchmark against this internally: how much time are customers spending on the platform and how can we consistently make that go down over time? The goal is that the more powerful Ramp becomes, the less time you spend on it. This... See more

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 more, faster.”

The Semrush AI Visibility Index report predicts that AI search traffic will surpass traditional search by 2028, meaning your product reputation is going to be surfaced before any of your brand marketing campaigns. So please… start investing into your product brand NOW.

The mode profile of people in the 80-99th percentile is always what you’d expect. The 99th to 100th percentile is unexpected. It’s never the ivy-leaguer. It's not the one who trained with a professional coach at the age of 5. The average person at Goldman Sachs went to Harvard. But the CEO of Goldman, David Solomon went to a small liberal arts... See more