Some childhood memories fade into pleasant background noise. Others remain vivid because they mark the first moment you realized you could influence the world around you. My first taste of advocacy came in the form of a schoolyard—specifically, the part of it that suddenly disappeared.
Read MoreBecause the solution might not be another marketing campaign or quota push. It might be time to introduce experienced leadership—fractionally or otherwise—to build the structure your best people deserve.
Read MoreSome childhood passions shape your identity more quietly than others. Mine came with the faint smell of melting solder and a workbench scattered with resistors, capacitors, and wires that always seemed just a little too short. Those early experiments didn’t turn me into an engineer—but they left me with a lifelong appreciation for building things that actually work.
Read MoreSome lessons arrive wrapped in success. Others show up as unfinished projects sitting on a workshop table, humming with ambition but lacking the pieces to move. This story is about the latter—and why it has shaped how I operate as a business leader to this day.
Read MoreSome childhoods are measured in school years or summer vacations. Mine could just as easily be measured in kilometers pedaled. My bike was my freedom machine—reliable, fast, and always in some state of disrepair.
Read MoreThere is a daily front-row seat to the extraordinary creativity of entrepreneurs. Every day, I meet founders who didn’t just see a gap in a market—they saw a market where others saw nothing at all.
Read MoreYou know the book: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. Different worlds. Different languages. Somehow still trying to be in a relationship.
Read MoreThat milestone feels like proof that everything works: the product resonates, customers are buying, and growth seems inevitable. Yet for many founders, it’s exactly when sales momentum stalls.
Read MoreThe traditional résumé is basically worthless. Not because people aren’t accomplished.
Not because experience doesn’t matter. But because the language of résumés has become generic to the point of emptiness.
Every entrepreneur eventually learns the hard way that “trial” doesn’t always mean “test under realistic conditions.” Sometimes it just means “a trial of your patience.”
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