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I had a chat last night with a billion-dollar SaaS founder/CEO. He's raised $200M at a $2B valuation in 2021. Living the high life in SF with a crazy house and a Porsche 911. On the surface, it seems like he has it all and living the dream. But he called me out of the blue at 11p last night ... See more

.@bchesky on how fast-growing companies become slow bureaucracies https://t.co/CyIPqOTPph

Jeff Bezos explains the idea of “paper cut” teams “There are big things that are really important to manage — and by the way, it’s astonishingly hard to focus on just the big things. Even though they’re obvious, they’re really hard to focus on. But in addition to that, there are all these tiny customer deficiencies. We ... See more

At Amazon, my team of 800 had more than 75 managers. I saw many thrive and others fail. A Harvard study identified the 4 main risk factors of manager failure, so I am going to share how managers can fix them and avoid failure.

My rules for being a founder (after selling 3 companies): - Pay your invoices fast. People appreciate it - Recurring meetings are mostly useless - Your best internet ideas come when you are off the internet - Create products no one asks for but everyone wants - Rea... See more

I’ve been running businesses for 17 years. Have a team of 100+. And have generated my clients over $7.8 billion in sales. I’ve made a lot of mistakes and paid for these lessons in full. Here are the business cheat codes I know now at 38, that I wish knew back when I was 28…