If you’re a CEO of a Series A enterprise startup – you’re probably thinking through critical questions: How do I create a scalable, repeatable sales process? How do I transfer from founder-led selling to hiring a team? As an enterprise VC fund, we at Work-Bench are often asked these questions and more, as startups think…
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One of the questions I ask the most successful people I interview or meet is: “What book have you gifted most to others, and why?” Below is a mega-list of the most-gifted and favorite books of 50-60 people like billionaire investor Peter Thiel, Tony Robbins, Arnold Schwarzenegger, elite athlete Amelia Boone, Malcolm Gladwell, legendary Navy SEAL Commander Jocko Willink,…
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A major takeaway from this project is the importance of updating in phases instead of trying to update for all users at the same time. I had once pushed the wrong update to all of my users — it did not go well and a lot of users crashed.It’s also important to respond to reviews to help…
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When we started our foundation 20 years ago, the world was, in many ways, very different from the one we live in now. It was before 9/11, before the Great Recession, and before the rise of social media. Then, as now, there was no shortage of worthy causes, and there was a good argument to…
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One of the cool things that the NFL gets right (maybe the only thing it gets right?) is each Super Bowl, they mic up all of the prominent players and coaches on each team. They then create a long 30-40 minute highlight video where you get to actually hear what the players and coaches say…
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Christopher Ashton Kutcher (/ˈkʊtʃər/; born February 7, 1978)[1] is an American actor, producer, and entrepreneur. He began his acting career portraying Michael Kelso in the Fox sitcom That ’70s Show (1998–2006). He made his film debut in the romantic comedy Coming Soon (1999), followed by the comedy film Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000), which was a box office hit. In 2003, Kutcher moved into romantic comedies, appearing…
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This was sent to me by one of my smartest and most connected friends. It paints a spooky picture of the Chinese reports of what has informally been referred to as “Wuhan coronavirus.” Per the WHO at the time of this writing, the official virus name is SARS-CoV-2, and the disease it causes is COVID-19,…
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Most people go through life not really getting any smarter. Why? They simply won’t do the work required. It’s easy to come home, sit on the couch, watch TV, and zone out until bedtime rolls around. But that’s not going to help you get smarter. Sure, you can go into the office the next day…
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«A murderous system is being created before our very eyes» A made-up rape allegation and fabricated evidence in Sweden, pressure from the UK not to drop the case, a biased judge, detention in a maximum security prison, psychological torture – and soon extradition to the U.S., where he could face up to 175 years in prison…
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When Yonatan Bursztyn founded the backpack brand Totto in 1987 in Bogota, Colombia, there was seemingly only one way to organize the company: in the hierarchical, top-down structure of almost every other business at that time, with a clear chain of command and authority up to the CEO. Three decades on, Totto has grown into…
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