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Topic mix

• CFO Leadership
  49 articles
• Strategic Planning
  48 articles
• Finance Team Building
  35 articles
• Product-Market Fit
  28 articles
• Pricing Strategy
  23 articles
• Unit Economics
  23 articles
• Business Model Analysis
  20 articles
• Sales Efficiency
  19 articles
• GTM Strategy
  17 articles
• Business Model Strategy
  13 articles

Recent articles

• What startups get wrong about enterprise | Lindsey Scrase (COO, Checkr)
  2026-07-30
• How Gamma Pulled Off Their AI Pivot: From Weak Product-Market Fit to 100M Users
  2026-07-24
• Building Roles Around Talent: An Early Employee's Perspective on Company Culture at Clay
  2026-05-06
• Why Great Product Leaders Should Stop Obsessing Over the Roadmap
  2026-04-30
• Building Artemis: AI-Native Security Platform Strategy and Execution
  2026-04-21
• Profile: Lenny Rachitsky - Building Influence Through Value Creation
  2026-04-19
• Scaling DoorDash to market dominance: Christopher Payne on operational excellence, unit economics, and executive leadership
  2026-04-17
• Building the Table: Katie Burke on Chief People Officer Leadership and Organizational Culture
  2026-04-10
• What nobody tells engineers about becoming a CEO | Jay Kreps (Co-founder and CEO, Confluent)
  2026-03-26
• How Guideline's Founder Solved 401(k) Adoption to Drive Acquisition by Gusto
  2026-03-24
• Guideline's Path to Product-Market Fit: Early Decisions Behind Gusto Acquisition
  2026-03-24
• Transitioning from Big Tech to Startup CPO: Jeremy Epling's Playbook for Product Leadership
  2026-03-19
• Serval's Path to Product-Market Fit: Enterprise Sales Strategy Through Consumer-Centric Design
  2026-03-10
• Chris Degnan on Building a $3.5B Go-to-Market Function Across 4 CEO Tenures
  2026-03-01
• Scaling Enterprise Sales from $0 to $3.5B: Chris Degnan's CRO Playbook at Snowflake
  2026-02-26
• Building Forward Deployed Engineer Teams: A Founder's Guide to FDE ROI
  2026-02-24
• Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers: Strategy, Selection, and Scaling
  2026-02-24
• The Evolution of CRO Leadership: From Sales-Focused to Systems-Driven Executives
  2026-02-22
• Why 90% of CROs Will Fall Behind by 2028: Insights from Stevie Case, CRO at Vanta
  2026-02-19
• Speed as a Quality Driver: Rippling's Design Leadership Philosophy
  2026-02-15
• Design Leadership Beyond Tools: Why Figma Isn't the Source of Truth
  2026-02-12
• Executive Function: First Round's New Podcast on Scaling Leadership in Hypergrowth Companies
  2026-02-05
• Executive Function: Building Systems That Enable Autonomous Decision-Making
  2026-02-05
• Executive Function: Leadership Insights from Elite Scaleup Executives
  2026-02-03
• Applied Intuition's Path to Product-Market Fit: How Qasar Younis Built a $15B Company
  2026-01-28
• Building Applied Intuition: Qasar Younis' Founder Formula for a $15B Autonomous Vehicle Software Company
  2026-01-28
• How Gusto's Founder Discovered PMF Through Relentless Customer Cold-Calling
  2026-01-20
• Canva's Path to $42B: Growth Through SEO, Localization, and Early Evangelists
  2026-01-13
• Canva's Path to Product-Market Fit — How a Two-Hour Founder Date Led To a $42B Design Platform
  2026-01-13
• 30 Best Pieces of Company Building Advice from 2025
  2026-01-06