Short Take: Strategy shapes success—examining Vodafone’s decline after key missteps reveals the critical need for CEOs and leaders to prioritize bold, transformative decisions over short-term urgency.

Short Take: Understanding investor dynamics is key to funding success—exploring how VCs, private equity, family offices, and others approach investments, and why aligning with their motivations is essential for founders and business leaders.

Short Take: Embracing contemplation as a tool for success, exploring the balance between action and reflection, and how deliberate pauses fuel creativity, clarity, and stronger leadership.

Short Take: Rethinking funding strategies for scaling tech ventures, with a focus on alternatives to venture capital, such as revenue, public markets, and other financial sources.

Short Take: Identifying character "tells" in business negotiations, including signs of transparency, paranoia, and emotional overreaction, and how these cues can reveal deeper truths about stakeholders.

Short Take: Exploring when a founder should consider folding their business, with insights on evaluating options, revitalizing energy, and the potential benefits of founder diversification.

Short Take: Considering how our worldview shapes our interactions and influences those around us.

Short Take: Thoughts on navigating the important funding decisions of a venture round.

Short Take: The instrumental role of leadership in Drake & Farrell's successful acquisition in May of 2024.

Short Take: A quick look into the importance of timing through the lens of newly founded Zefiro Methane Corp. and it's IPO in May of 2024.