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The Bet: Owning the Entire Cold Email Stack

We're an 8-person startup trying to build what most companies staff 50 engineers to maintain. Here's why we're doing it anyway.

What 6 Months of Weekly Advisor Calls Taught Me About Building a Company

I thought I was getting a strategy partner. I got something more useful: someone who kept asking me better questions.

AI Made Me Addicted to Productivity

Last week I looked up and realized I hadn't stopped working in 14 hours. Not because I had to. Because AI made it impossible to stop

GPT 5.3 vs Opus 4.6 vs Gemini 3 Pro vs Kimi K2.5 - building a GTM system

I gave the exact same project to GPT, Claude, Gemini, and Kimi. It went exactly as expected

Why I Stopped Trying to Build a SaaS

I was 6 months into planning a pivot. Then I realized the game had changed.

I Left College and Traveled to 6 Countries in 30 Days. Here's What I Learned.

California. Ukraine. Switzerland. Austria. Czechia. Moldova. I didn't plan any of it.

How I'm thinking about fundraising vs bootstrapping

What I think drove our growth last year

We grew revenue 10x, scaled from 3 to 16 people then back to 8. I also hit my money goals for the first time. When I look back at what actually moved the needle, it wasn't the stuff I thought it would be.

I turn down half my sales calls. Here's what changed.

What I learned from the deals I should have walked away from.

The 4 things that need to be true before any growth channel works

Ads, content, cold email - none of it works until these are in place