growth

More Drama at ChatGPT/OpenAI

Even though it has barely been 48 hours since my last message on OpenAI (owners of ChatGPT), so much drama has occurred. First Sam Altman gets fired by the board of OpenAI. Then the board reverses its decision and tries to hire Altman back as CEO. Microsoft, which is the largest shareholder of OpenAI and […]

More Drama at ChatGPT/OpenAI Read More »

After Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

When you have a product that works, it solves the customers’ problems, and the customers are happy, congratulations, you’ve just achieved product-market fit. The question is: What’s next? The obvious but slightly simplistic answer is to generate sales. While this is certainly true, how you generate sales makes an enormous difference in whether you’ll be

After Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Read More »

Olympic Gold for SaaS Founders

One of the key principles I teach my founder CEOs is the importance of finding a gap in the marketplace to focus on. If you do exactly what your competitors do, product-wise, and target the exact same ideal customer, then your only option is to outperform. However, instead of (or in addition to) outperforming, you

Olympic Gold for SaaS Founders Read More »

40x Growth in 90 Days

With a keen interest, I’ve been watching arguably the most audacious scalability effort I’ve seen in my lifetime. I’m talking about 40x growth in 90 days… in physical goods and the in-person service industry… starting from a base of 100,000 units per day to 4 million per day in under 90 days (as of a

40x Growth in 90 Days Read More »

The Sniff Test

I’ve worked with a number of high-performing CEOs over the years. The best of them all had a unique skill that’s far less common with founder CEOs. It’s the ability to manage via the “sniff test.” The bias of a founder is to make every decision and be hands-on, involved in everything. This is typically

The Sniff Test Read More »

Scroll to Top