Musings from a Father, Entrepreneur, Traveler & Lover of Life!
Every business has a number it lives by. Not the number it reports in board meetings. Not the one that goes in the quarterly update or the investor deck. The one that the founder checks first thing in the morning, before coffee, before email, before anything else. The one that tells them, in a single... Continue Reading →
A resignation is almost never a decision. It is an announcement of a decision that was already made, sometimes weeks earlier, in a part of their head you were never invited into.
In the ever-evolving landscape of eCommerce, one model has risen above the rest, transforming how consumers interact with brands: the subscription-based model. This approach, where customers commit to regular deliveries of products or services, is rapidly reshaping online shopping. As the founder and CEO of Ergode, I've seen firsthand how this model impacts businesses and... Continue Reading →
About 25 hours a week, gone. Not to strategy. Not to the product. Gone to tasks that a mildly competent piece of software could do in its sleep.
> Nobody prepares you for the moment the business actually works. The podcasts cover the hustle. The books cover the climb. Nobody writes about what happens when you get there.
I used to think a good meeting was a long one. Then a board member asked why we'd spent two hours in a room to make one decision. It was not the right call. Here's what I changed since.
The first reader of your product listing is no longer a person. It is an AI system, parsing your page to decide whether your product deserves to be part of the answer it gives someone else. And that system reads completely differently from the way a human does.
There is a sale happening right now, somewhere, for a product you sell. The customer never visited your listing. They asked an AI assistant. Your product either made the shortlist or it did not.
Your customers are leaving clues everywhere. In their clicks, their returns, their silence. The brands that listen to that data do not just retain customers. They build relationships that last.
Culture is not a document. It is the sum of thousands of small decisions people make when nobody is watching and nothing is forcing them to make the right one.
