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Sep 16, 2026 Destroy All Contractors Founders learned to distrust dev shops for good reasons. Here's the case for the opposite — a small senior crew and an on-demand CTO — and why agentic leverage makes it stronger than ever.
Sep 11, 2026 Do We Trust Our Work? A cloud tool's 1,089% price hike pushed me to rebuild my own most trust-sensitive system with AI in under twenty hours. What it taught me about trusting AI-built work — and how I know it holds.
Aug 25, 2026 Why I Stopped Asking Founders for Equity Two things changed how I run this business: a lesson from discounted cash flow, and a lesson from Charlie Munger. Together they talked me out of ever asking a founder for equity again.
Aug 24, 2026 3 Unconventional Lessons From a VC Backed by 46 Billion-Dollar Founders Three unconventional lessons on the executive-to-founder leap, from the best talk I've seen this year — by a deep-tech VC backed by 46 billion-dollar founders.

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