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3 steps that helped this founder turn his business around

Ruben Williams had $500 in his bank account after five years building SportsGrad. The fix wasn't more content — it was offer architecture.

Jun 7, 2026 · 5 min read

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Playbooks

Figma's CMO on safe marketing being risky

Sheila Joglekar Vashee runs Figma's marketing like an investment portfolio. Here's the logic behind moonshots, maintenance, and why ubiquity kills cool.

Jun 7, 2026 · 8 min read

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Playbooks

Kill the GTM stack: Aurasell CEO's case

Jason Eubanks ran 22 tools, paid $3M in fees, and needed 11 ops people to hold it together. Here's what he says the next model looks like.

Jun 7, 2026 · 6 min read

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Founder Brand & Content

Anthropic's $1 trillion pace rewrites company building

Apple took 42 years. Anthropic will do it in 5. What the revenue-per-employee gap means for operators building now.

Jun 7, 2026 · 5 min read

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Founder Brand & Content

SaaStr built an AI VP of marketing

What SaaStr's AI marketing orchestrator actually does, where it falls short, and what operators building inbound pipeline should take from it.

Jun 7, 2026 · 6 min read

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Engagement Tools

AI is not coming to save your LinkedIn

Founders are generating 40 posts in an afternoon and wondering why nobody reads them.

Jun 7, 2026 · 7 min read

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Founder Brand & Content

Weekly Dose of Optimism #196

Antares goes critical, a new American nuclear era begins, and what this week's optimism means for operators building in public.

Jun 6, 2026 · 6 min read

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Founder Brand & Content

Unreasonable choices that build the right life

Justin Welsh's essay on being "unreasonable" is a useful frame for operators who keep choosing the path that looks wrong to everyone else.

Jun 6, 2026 · 5 min read

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Founder Brand & Content

Rob Lennon's zero to 10k playbook, unpacked

Three frameworks from Rob Lennon's course that helped one writer pay $2,600 for follow-on consulting: niche construction, idea generation, and the two…

Jun 6, 2026 · 6 min read

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Founder Brand & Content

How Vercel runs on AI agents

96% of marketing, 93% of support, and an SDR team reabsorbed. What CPO Tom Occhino's production numbers mean for every B2B operator right now.

Jun 6, 2026 · 5 min read

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Founder Brand & Content

The goal gradient hypothesis for LinkedIn growth

Sahil Bloom ran 105.5 laps at 4:45am to prove a point about motivation. The science behind it explains why most LinkedIn strategies stall past week four.

Jun 6, 2026 · 5 min read

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Founder Brand & Content

How free videos helped scale to millions

Matt Gray built a 2.8M audience in 18 months. The system he built to keep it running maps directly onto what most operators are trying to solve.

Jun 6, 2026 · 6 min read