Please welcome our special guest, Beau Billington, who has a business in the executive talent space. Over the years, he’s worked with a number of high-growth companies and the talent that drives them while also building his own business. In this fascinating episode we discuss what the market and talent is looking for, and what it means to be an entrepreneur these days.

The world has changed since COVID. In this 9-minute episode we share strategies and tactics for how to grow during a challenging market, when budgets get cut but the goals you must achieve don’t.

While building technology we can forget that our customers are not just machines, but primarily other human beings. As such, building relationships with other people within your organization and in other organizations is critical to driving growth for your career and your business. While business transactions are one part of that, it's often been said that people do buisness with people they like. Meaning, establishing trust over long time horizons will likely provide higher returns that a single transaction. Because it may mean more than business. We break it down in this special episode with our friend Omar Sher who's working at the intersection of energy and commercial real estate in large growth markets outside the United States.

Please welcome our special guest, Jeff Davis, who is an old business school friend and has spent his career at the intersection of Sales and Marketing. In this hour-long episode we discuss the challenges for getting the departments to work together to drive revenue growth and discuss podcasts as a distribution channel for communicating complex information between highly leveraged and busy individuals.

Many companies struggle to figure out what they stand for, and what their core values are. It becomes design by committee based on what they think society at that time thinks so they can become popular. Those are not your core values. In this quick episode we break down how to find your true core values, both personally and as an organization.

Please welcome our special guest, Chris Fong, a product growth expert who’s built massive-following facebook pages, Instagram accounts, websites for DuPont, and B2B eCommerce for $1B steel companies. In this episode we talk about new AI tools and other methodologies for growing your attention on the internet.

Increasing iteration speed in an organization is a leading indicator of profitable growth. For example, if your organization does things slowly and hands work off between departments slowly, then your ability to execute customer requirements is also slow. Thus, a competitor who moves faster will create more value faster for customers and thereby attract their business. In this quick episode we break down a fundamental process in the software development lifecycle.

We’ve used a simple but powerful principle as a north star product vision over decades, both in the consumer and business markets. It’s helped us make good product management decisions, investment decisions, and resulted in higher returns. In this quick episode we break down how to use it to create zero-to-one products with commercialization built in.

What's a simple thing that creates an ever-increasing slowleness as organizations scale? In this quick episode we break down an effective operational improvement to accelerate the speed of your organization, regardless of size.

One of the highest impact things you can do to grow your business, provide more value to your customers, and if you so choose, build an AI model from, is to organize and simplify. In this quick episode we describe what we mean and how you can use it to your advantage.

If you're building yet another SAAS app that saves text to a database and surfaces it in another box, then it's likely you need a large sales team to stand out in a sea of sameness. Hard tech is different. We break down the key principle to standing out in this two-minute episode.

Small World Networks can be found throughout the natural world. From biologic intelligence and connectomes to your social circle of friends. In this 4-minute episode we describe how to use this natural phenomenon to your advantage when designing virality and interactions within and between these networks.

Please welcome our special guest, Deb Mashek, PhD, who is an expert and quite literally wrote the book on collaboration between people in work environments. As a growth lever, enabling people to easily and efficiently agree and execute at scale (i.e., Collective Intelligence) creates new forms of value for businesses and represents a critical defense mechanism against competitors stealing your market share. When you move faster when a better culture, you attract more talent, customers, and capital, thereby creating a flywheel of success.

Deb is a wonderful practitioner who helps companies do exactly this based on her years of research in the area. She has one fascinating framework as it relates to trust in the workplace and how you can only move in one direction. Listen in to here more about her secrets.

What do humans spend most of their time doing during the day? And what’s the one thing that every human can consume? In this few-minute episode we break down the fundamental communication mechanism between humans at planetary scale.

Please welcome our special guest Murtuza Kutub who was an early employee at Fab and left to build Docker before Docker.

He’s a smart chap who currently works with founders to build software products and is one of our high-growth ecosystem partners. He reached out wanting to interview us on our perspective of product-market fit, how we view investing across venture capital, private equity, and public company funding environments. We discuss a novel approach to high-growth company building, our backgrounds, and our diligence process for the companies we work with.

If you’re a business owner and want to be on Murtuza’s podcast, please reach out, he’s interviewing a few fine folks in the space to help understand the fundamental needs of people building businesses the right way.

We're often asked to help business owners raise capital. And on the investor side, if we know of high-growth businesses looking for capital. It's a matching function predicated on whether the business asset has durable cash flow streams that are growing. We break it down in this quick episode.

Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are a management and alignment tool that can prove fruitful. There is room for improvement, however. In this quick episode we provide a more simplified perspective.

When many entrepreneurs and investors get involved with a company, their first port of call is typically their own network. But that can create a false sense of reality because these are known quantities. So how do you decide what's real in business building? We break it down in this quick episode.

Please welcome our special guest, Justin Ruiss, who is the SVP Media at BWG Strategy. He creates 350 forums per year at the intersection of audio, video, gaming, eCommerce, marketing, and advertising where senior executives and other industry practitioners provide intelligence on internet media. To say he's knowledgeable in the space is an understatement.

In this 50-minute episode we cover the opportunities and threats across the landscape of media that operators and executives are contending with at the consumer level, the startup level, and up to the big tech level. We cover video, retail media (read: ads for eCommerce), console and social gaming, and eventually get into emerging trends that impact the entire 5.4 billion internet user base.

In this quick episode we define the principle of Cloud Jumping and how it might shift your perspective on defensible strategy for internet businesses.