product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
The relationship between journalism and the people it aims to serve is broken. But we can heal it if we learn to put audiences and communities at the centre of everything we do. The News Alchemists newsletter wants to help you to do just that.
These other companies made shoes for a range of athletic activities, not just one sport. All the same, Weber’s resolve was strong. He was driven by a quote he wrote on his whiteboard on his first day as CEO of Brooks: “The secret to success is constancy of purpose”. This sentence stayed on the whiteboard for the length of his tenure, to remind him... See more
Contrary to what we would like to believe, there is no such thing as a structureless group. Any group of people of whatever nature that comes together for any length of time for any purpose will inevitably structure itself in some fashion. The structure may be flexible; it may vary over time; it may evenly or unevenly distribute tasks, power and... See more
The worst version of a fundraising ask is “we need $3M to give us 24 months of runway”.
The best version is “we need $3M to accomplish these 3 critical projects we have planned that will take us from X users/revenue to 5x in 18 months.
We need these 4 new positions to pull it off and we... See more
in every meeting, conversation, or encounter, you have the opportunity to make someone feel BIG or small. choose BIG. the best way to make people like you is to make people like themselves.