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See if We’re a FitAI is not a feature. It’s a foundation. Bryan Murphy said it plainly: “AI is not a feature. It’s a foundation. It’s a structural change.” He compares it to the commercialization of the internet, the rise of cloud, the shift to mobile. None of those were bolt-ons. They rewired how companies were built. Most CEOs … Read more
Technical founders believe the breakthrough is the hard part. It isn’t. The harder part is getting 30, 60, 100 people aligned around that breakthrough. When I spoke with Sankalp Arora, CEO and co-founder of Gather AI, he said something that every scaling CEO needs to internalize: “The thing that really caught me by surprise, and … Read more
Pano Anthos has built companies, bootstrapped for decades, exited at strong multiples, and now invests through XRC Ventures. He has seen the same trap from both sides of the table. If you have to educate the market, your scaling curve gets brutal. “Education is by far the hardest thing to migrate,” Pano told me. “If … Read more
Ted Krantz has lived a transition a lot of scaling leaders struggle with. He built his career in revenue. Then he stepped into the CEO seat, first at Data.ai, now at interos.ai. The hard part was not learning new functions. It was unlearning how he showed up. “I think the one that comes to mind… … Read more
Some companies can run on a playbook. Hire a strong operator. Install a process. Scale the motion. Genomics does not work that way. Dr. Brandon Colby made that clear in our conversation. “When you are a CEO of a company that’s dealing with very complex data, very scientific data,” he said, “it takes a really … Read more
I’ve spent the past month talking to CEOs across cannabis retail, food tech, healthcare SaaS, and global consulting. My goal was simple: learn how leaders are actually using AI. The experimentation phase is over. You’re either building AI into your operating system, or you’re falling behind. SC Moatti, Managing Partner at Mighty Capital, calls this … Read more
Early stage CEOs get praised for hustle. You say yes. You move fast. You grab every opportunity that shows up. Eric Martell has lived the dark side of that advice. “We were really tempted to say yes to everything in the early days,” he told me. “If you’re trying to say yes to everything, you’re … Read more
Hiring used to be a volume game. You hired more people, accepted some misses, and trusted that the winners would carry the class. Asad Zaman says that math is changing fast. “You need less people,” he told me. “But as you need less people, what seems to be happening is that the need for those … Read more
Most CEOs talk about scaling like it is a company problem. More headcount. More systems. Better execution. Elias Stahl framed it differently, and I think he is right. “You are the cap on the company’s growth,” he told me. “My job is to make sure that none of us stop growing.” That is not motivational … Read more
Every CEO says they are customer obsessed. That sounds right. It also hides a failure mode that shows up once your early product starts working. Trip Adler put it bluntly: “You do want to listen to customers and you want to build based on their feedback. But at the same time, you can get caught … Read more
