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It’s been five incredibly turbulent days at OpenAI, with the exit and then return of CEO Sam Altman. This article succinctly unpacks all of that dynamism and then goes on to explore whether OpenAI is the not-for-profit it declared itself to be in 2015 or something else entirely.
57% of venture-backed startups will have to go “back to market” in 2024 to raise more capital. 38% have 12 or less months of runway left. Many might not be able to pull off that next round, leaving them with few options.
The bell weather that is “Black Friday” has come and gone, and by all estimates, it was a blowout. What recession? There will be downstream effects here around interest rate hikes (or lack thereof) and potential investment loosening up.
The most important thing you can do at a tactical level is almost always the same: use the capital at this stage to double down on what is working whilst hiring great business VPs to bring balance to each domain.
Lessons learned by a long-time product manager turned founder, broken down into slides. This will help you ship products and features without using a defined roadmap.
Startup CEO coach Matt Mochary has compiled this fairly extensive resource library filled with wisdom on building companies and managing yourself as a founder or CEO.
As teams grow you have to figure out how to manage your team but also find unique ways to maximize potential. This post is a data-backed review of ways to engage your team and figure out what makes them tick.
Find sales leads with contact info by searching tech stacks.
Ian Hickson spent 18 years at Google. He left last week. This article provides an insider's take on Google over the years, particularly on how its culture has evolved. Hickson argues that there’s an existential cultural risk to the future of Google and calls out several leaders. Not all is lost, yet.
A long-term engineering and product leader at companies like Apple, Snap, and Pandora discusses lessons learned from his startup failures.
Early-stage companies mostly use titles to help send a message externally, but as you grow, they start to have a bigger impact internally and personally.
How you follow up matters when a user cancels their subscription. Your follow-up email to a cancellation request provides a short window to win them back or gather valuable insight into why they’re leaving.
We’ve seen the “open protocol” play done time and again. To a certain extent, OpenAI started like that but quickly veered away as soon as the business case got interesting. We saw it with OpenID/OAuth back in the day. This article looks at the Open Network for Digital Commerce. Always an interesting play in competitive markets.
An all-encompassing recap of the OpenAI fiasco. This will be studied for generations. If you haven’t followed the entire saga, this summary is a must read including all of the interesting angles and fall-out.