History doesn’t repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes—or so the saying goes. For entrepreneurs, I believe 2021 and the years to come will rhyme with 2007. Froth Rhymes In 2007, I worked in leveraged finance at a top Wall Street investment bank. When I started my job, it was so busy that I could barely…
Fundraising Tips for Early Stage Founders
As a former startup founder, I was often unsure about best practice for proactively communicating with investors ahead of my next round. Now sitting on the other side of the table as an investor, I wanted to share my thoughts. Here are five tips I recommend for early stage founders gearing up for their next…
The Gratitude Algorithm
There’s a lot of fluff written on gratitude, and it’s easy for those trained in engineering (including myself) to be readily dismissive and miss out on something transformative. So I wanted to write an article addressed specifically to hackers and engineers – starting from first order principles of experience, and providing a heuristic to transform…