Archives: Musings

Clout is the strongest currency on social media. You’re either someone or nobody cares. I’ve been working with over a hundred directors, VPs, and CXOs of small businesses with different backgrounds: 1. Bootstraps – unsung heroes2. Startups that got acquired by a large corp3. Founders coming from companies like Salesforce, Google, or top B2B SaaS…

My last piece uncovered the PMF model breaking because we operate under a different reality. This is largely true. It’s a conversation I’ve been having behind closed doors and in small rooms with leaders, but not a popular opinion to share in the public. And one of the reasons for that is that public data…

Most research studies going over startup failures, including my favorite CB Insights research report, cover a number of reasons related to product-market fit. I’ll use theirs as an example. Going top-to-bottom, we see the following: Of course, there are other reasons related to management, team structure, hiring, building sprints, working with stakeholders, sales, VC management.…

Corporate jobs are threatened by AI because bots provide AVAILABILITY and workers don’t. Any organization employing over a thousand people (let alone 5k, 10k, 50k+) relies on bulletproof repetitive processes to scale. This means that FTEs are bogged down by flow charts and diagrams and it takes 25 people to complete a job together (a…

After reviving my blog yesterday (the theoretical and philosophical part at least), I made a pivot going back to blogging and away from other public media arbitrage bazaars – namely, social media and social networks in this case. There have been different reasons to do so, but if I have to enumerate the main ones:…

Today, we celebrate World Introvert Day – the global holiday of 56.8% of all people (according to MBTI stats). I like this greeting card from Florida National University from last year: As a self-proclaimed “justice warrior,” I’ve been defending my quiet corner of the world as many of us: Extroverts take up most of the…