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Fair Offer, Part III: Beyond Base Salary
How to combine Base Salary, Bonus, and Equity — to design comprehensive compensation bands & make compelling offers
Apr 12
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March 2025
Play the Odds, Game the Odds: Building a Company is like Playing Blackjack
We had an odd first few years at Forge.
Mar 27
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Antitrust in the digital age
I feel like everyone overthinks antitrust.
Mar 12
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February 2025
T-shaped vs. Matrixed Companies
There are many kinds of building
Feb 13
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January 2025
Tech-enabled services aren’t venture scalable
You can definitely build a big, influential, and important company doing tech-enabled services, but you cannot build one that fits the VC model.
Jan 16
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September 2024
"Founder Mode" shouldn't be a Rorschach Test
Paul Graham coined Founder Mode over the weekend, but he left "what is founder mode" and "how to do it" as an exercise for the reader.
Sep 5, 2024
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June 2024
How to be an elite startup employee
The "social contract" for rockstar employees at many early-stage startups of <100 people, distilled from my imperfect and incomplete experience serving…
Jun 3, 2024
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A Policy Framework for Radical Moderates
You’re probably wondering what the hell I’m doing writing about politics, rather than about startups, or valuations, or whatever. Somehow I haven’t…
Jun 1, 2024
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May 2024
Your Startup is not your Horcrux
Guidelines for being a founder that I've learned, while serving as an (imperfect) 2-time founder & CEO, early-employee-COO, advisor, and investor.
May 22, 2024
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An Ode to Early Employees
I once had someone tell me:
May 9, 2024
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January 2024
Decoding Compensation, Part II: FairOffer.ai
Introducing FairOffer.ai, a tool to algorithmically estimate fair compensation — for any title, at any stage of company, anywhere in the world.
Jan 14, 2024
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Decoding Compensation, Part I: Beyond Benchmarks
An algorithmic approach to fair pay
Jan 13, 2024
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