How To Founder Episodes

What if the infrastructure protecting you from scale is the reason you can't afford to reach it? ...

What if every time a customer accepts your price without hesitation, you're actually losing? ...

You built something from nothing and somewhere along the way, you became "the person who does...

You've known for months who needs to go. The documentation feels thin. The conversation you keep...

You promoted your strongest performer. Gave them a project. Stepped back to let them run. Three...

You've tailored the cover letter. You've optimized for keywords. The startups you want still don...

Stephanie ran a restaurant for eleven years on cash reserves that rarely exceeded two weeks. When...

Crumbs Bake Shop celebrated record revenue. Thirty locations generating healthy profits on paper....

What do you owe someone in the thirty seconds after you've just ended their career? When David...

What infrastructure do public companies have that yours doesn’t? In 2019, a mid-market medical...

Your safest hire might be your riskiest bet. That candidate with ten years at a Fortune 500...

Your org chart lies to you. Those neat boxes and lines suggest a machine where work flows...

Your marketing team hit their lead targets. Your sales team says the leads are garbage. Both are...

Jay Goltz kept his warehouse manager for three years past the obvious. The day after he finally...

What if the skills that made you successful are now holding your company back? Rand Fishkin...

Your pipeline is lying to you. A sales coach tracked a client's team for ninety days and found...

You're staring at the decision: hire your first person or stay solo. Everyone says you need a...

What if your alignment meetings are just expensive procrastination? Jared Christopher built...

What if paying people to show up is the problem? Joey Rockey has built 29 businesses, with 25...

Most founders think organizational design is something you do once you're big. Wrong. Your...