Insights
Writing on AI, startups,
and what it takes to ship.
Essays on the production gap, startup strategy, and the founder’s inner operating system. The weekly playbooks live in the AI-Native Founder newsletter, and the running LinkedIn series lives in Field Notes.
Fresh from the newsletter
-
Fundraising Fundamentals — Lesson 4: The Term Sheet Is a Control Document
The Build Log · Why the valuation is the least interesting number on the page, the four clauses that decide who actually runs your company, and the diff agent that reads a term sheet against the publi
Read the full issue → -
Nobody Is Taking Your Word For It
Nvidia closed on Hugging Face, AI’s share of pre-seed dollars stopped rising, and what kills enterprise pilots is not the model. Three places where a claim now needs paperwork.
Read the full issue → -
Fundraising Fundamentals — Lesson 3: Inside the Room
The Build Log · What actually happens in a partner meeting, why your pitch is really a briefing for people who are not there, and the two agents that wrap every investor conversation
Read the full issue → -
The Week Your Stack Became a Counterparty
OpenAI is cutting Cursor off, a quarter-billion dollars went into agent security, and the scarcest input in AI is now a verified human. Every vendor in your stack has interests of its own.
Read the full issue →
From the archive
-
The Entrepreneur Extinction Event (And How to Be the Asteroid)
The entrepreneur extinction event: GPU scarcity isn't killing startups, it's rewriting the rules so solo founders outbuild teams with 50x their res…
-
Economic Trends Speaker
An economic trends speaker for investor and founder audiences. The talk maps the economic, credit, and technology cycles that decide when funding o…
-
Entrepreneurial Mindset Speaker
An entrepreneurial mindset speaker for founder events, drawing on The Inside-Out Entrepreneur: the resiliency it takes to last the whole journey.
-
AI Innovation Speaker
An AI innovation speaker for conferences and offsites. The talk: why capability stopped being the differentiator, and who can get AI into production.
-
Startup Leadership Speaker
A startup leadership speaker for founder audiences and accelerator programs. The talk covers hiring A+ people, real ownership, and pacing to the ma…