How Brett from DesignJoy built a $120k/month one-person design agency

Brett Malinowski May 21, 2023

• One designer, zero employees, $120k/month — here's exactly how.
• No client meetings, no contracts: async Trello queue does everything.
• Keeping your day job longer than feels comfortable protects your best decisions.

How COOs should integrate people after acquisitions

Cameron Herold May 21, 2023

• Lead with values and trust — never systems — when acquiring companies
• A three-year brand migration keeps legacy employees from feeling erased
• Informal off-sites build more real trust than structured team sessions

How Rob Walling Turned a $31k SaaS Acquisition into $1M

Rob Walling May 21, 2023

• Cold outreach found a $30k broken SaaS; rehab and marketing hit $30k MRR.
• Stair-step method: each exit funds the next, bigger bet.
• Hittail profits self-funded Drip, which later sold for life-changing money.

How Fountain scaled hourly worker hiring to 100 million applicants

EO May 21, 2023

• Blue-collar workers were ignored by HR tech — Fountain fixed that.
• Each growth stage ($1M, $10M, $50M) demands a completely different skill set.
• Enterprise customers hand-held Fountain into 77 countries and 35 languages.

Five components of a SaaS go-to-market strategy

TK Kader May 21, 2023

• Sending 1,000 emails without strategy still yields zero pipeline.
• 50 ICP leads → 5 opportunities → 1 customer: know the math before you start.
• Consistent 'Broadway show' beats random channel-hopping every time.

Scaling Spotify: product strategy, AI, and team autonomy with Gustav Söderström

Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth May 21, 2023

• Why Spotify's squad model broke down at scale — and what replaced it
• Generative AI is a third internet era, not an extension of recommendation
• Redesigns are riskier than new features because user participation isn't optional

Ten essential tips for getting started in digital marketing

Neil Patel May 20, 2023

• Content blindness is coming — volume is rising, attention is shrinking.
• Neil Patel's 40/10/20/30 content mix formula for sustainable traffic growth.
• Consistency built 37 million views; virality is unpredictable and creates expectation traps.

What supercar owners actually do for a living

Noah Kagan May 20, 2023

• Oil, gas, and supply chain dominate supercar owners' income sources.
• Networking casually can open doors to life-changing opportunities.
• Real wealth came from years of relentless work, not quick schemes.

How to advance your career when nepotism is working against you

Dr. Grace Lee May 20, 2023

• Your reaction to nepotism reveals your own biases more than the event itself.
• Nepotism is a values conflict — hiring family fulfils perceived benefits, not just favouritism.
• The fix: communicate your value in terms your decision-maker actually cares about.

Visualising loan workload and processor performance in ClickUp dashboards

Layla at ProcessDriven May 19, 2023

• Why one dashboard widget can't show workload by office and processor simultaneously
• Formula fields that flag whether loans closed early or late
• Nested IF functions with emojis replace ClickUp's missing conditional formatting

Scott Belsky on product sense, AI, and building through the messy middle

Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth May 18, 2023

• Why the first 30 seconds of any product define everything
• Kill features ruthlessly — Behance grew every time it removed something
• Use conviction, not calendar, to decide when to quit

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek on building an audio platform and creator economy

Acquired May 18, 2023

• Spotify would not exist if it had launched in the US first.
• Podcasting's higher margin potential is offset by moderation costs at scale.
• Culture, not features, determines whether a company can keep stacking growth curves.

How to build SEO-driven organic traffic without a big budget

Neil Patel May 18, 2023

• SEO compounds over years — most businesses quit six months too early.
• Four free steps: keyword research, publish, build links, fix technical errors.
• Creativity beats budget: a free tool can replace $2M/month in ads.

Solve Your Customer Acquisition Problem

Rob Walling May 18, 2023

From immigrant student to investor: Manu Kumar's path through entrepreneurship

EO May 18, 2023

• Getting into a closed class by living its definition of entrepreneurship
• How a Java users group — not pitching — landed the first investors
• Starting young means asymmetric upside: failure still teaches, success transforms