Gumroad’s founder shares what he’s learned about strategy, product, and growth.
Advice for Generalist Founders
Is being Sequoia actually pretty easy?
A new conduit for knowledge of business strategy
A guide to the “right way” (discounted cash flow analysis), and why “everything is dumb right now.”
Three reasons why RSS still dominates in audio, but not text.
Strategy’s most famous theory could be wrong
On launching and learning
Commoditizing tweets’ complement (the algorithm) will increase usage and rebuild trust
A guide to Porter’s “Five Forces” framework—through the lens of Spotify
A conflict of interest
An exclusive excerpt from a16z general partner Andrew Chen’s new book, The Cold Start Problem
I hope it becomes a new paradigm for the creator economy
A friendly rebuttal
How and why early-stage startups sacrifice growth for power
It’s not like war, but it’s not like art class, either.
My chapter-by-chapter summary, with notes and reactions
Building your v1
And does it matter?
Jesse Beyroutey, partner at IA Ventures, on why some companies achieve dominance while others get bogged down.
Businesses plateau for two reasons: Their strategy is wrong (Wrong Strategy Syndrome) They fail to execute any strategy at all (Fuzzy Strat
How to understand the essence of any business
Their new paid podcast feature only makes sense in a world where in-app purchase rules are relaxed.
How the Fed accidentally scuttled your Series B, simply explained
