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What Early Employees Want Beyond Compensation

Published July 10, 2026

When people leave a job, money is seldom the real reason. In McKinsey’s Great Attrition researc...

How to Build Your Startup Team in the Age of AI

Published July 10, 2026

A team of ten working with capable AI can build what once took a hundred people. That arithmetic rewrites the founder’s job: when a team’s output outruns its headcount, every hire becomes a capital-allocation decision, and the scarcest capital is judgment.

Hiring itself shows the s...

From Founder to CEO: What Actually Changes When You Scale

As a company grows, the founder’s job changes with it. Here is what shifts as you scale, and how founders navigate the transition.

Published July 10, 2026

Every founder eventually runs into a question: what does the company need from me now?

In the early years, the answer is obvious. It needs the...

When a Startup Should Hire Its First COO, CFO, or CMO

Published June 23, 2026

Every founder hits a week that will not fit in the calendar. A product review, three final-round candidates, a board deck, a customer escalation, and a pricing decision all land at once, and the founder is the only person who can move any of them. That week is information. It marks the...

Why Trust is a Founder’s Greatest Asset

Published June 23, 2026

Trust may be the most valuable thing a young company owns, and among the easiest to lose. It can take years of kept promises to build and a single bad decision to spend.

Harvard Business School’s Sandra Sucher, who spent two decades