“The first thing to confront is that as a CEO you’re the company’s primary salesperson. It doesn’t matter what industry, what product, what revenue model, what stage of development.” | learn more
Sam Altman, who recently stepped down as CEO of YCombinator, shares “13 thoughts about how to achieve such outlier success” based on his observing “thousands of founders and [thinking] a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount […]
Gina Bianchini, CEO of Mighty Networks, discusses how the internet has fundamentally changed business models for media. Specifically, she’s saying that audiences are out and networks are in. I think she makes a great point! | learn more
Last year Oscar Munoz’ $6M house in Florida tragically lost its sand dunes because of the hurricanes. Rather than pay to buy replacement sand, they just took some from a nearby public beach. And then they were caught and fined […]
Document forgers be forewarned: pay attention to font selection, or else. | learn more
A fun and interest read. One key quote: “Cold email was so important to creating The Hustle. All of the connections I’ve made were through cold emailing.” | learn more
This week in irony, former Walmart CEO Bill Simon complains that Amazon’s prices are too low, putting retailers out of business! Oy vey. | learn more
“Shares of little-known financial technology company Longfin surged 1,342 percent in two days to a market value of $3.1 billion after buying a cryptocurrency company with no revenue.” The CEO went on CNBC to tell the public that they’re nuts. |learn […]
Patrick Brown runs the company that’s trying to make meatless meat that’s as tasty as the real thing. He’s raised $200 million for this venture, and thinks VCs need to ask harder scientific questions. | learn more