Essays From the Field
Longer-form essays on building companies, founder risk, durable growth, and the lessons that only show up under pressure. No hype. No recycled advice. Just what I have learned by building, losing, and rebuilding.
July 8, 2026
While I was inside the company, I thought the biggest risks were the ones I could see: competitors, capital, deals. The ones that actually took me down were quieter. Some lessons only become legible after the thing you built is gone — here are the ones I paid the most for.
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June 9, 2026
Nobody posts a screenshot of a follow-up sequence that fired on time. But the companies that last are built out of exactly that kind of unglamorous machinery. This is an argument for boring — and for why the exciting version of growth is usually the expensive one.
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May 12, 2026
A company and a book fail the same way: not in one dramatic moment, but through a thousand small places where clarity leaks out. After years of doing both, I have stopped treating them as separate crafts. The disciplines transfer — in both directions.
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