24 June 2024
This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and marketing, with new digests from Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth, Brett Malinowski, and TK Kader. Highlights include Intuition is a hypothesis generator — debate and data do the winnowing. Own no cars, earn $150K/month using a 50/50 investor model
Showing 37 digests for 24 June 2024.
Founder interviews
YouTube
How Snowflake's co-founder found a $40B killer idea
EO
June 27, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Business models
8
Delegation
5
In the cloud, faster processing costs the same — Snowflake's founding insight
Simplicity is the number one quality of any great product
Give new hires 100% trust from day one or don't hire them
How to pick the right key metrics for small business customer service
Layla at ProcessDriven
June 27, 2024
Processes & SOPs
9
Customer experience
6
Metrics that inform aren't the same as metrics that change behaviour.
Pair lead and lag metrics that counterbalance each other to prevent gaming.
Start with two or three metrics per role; revisit each quarter.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoic principles for control, resilience, and difficult conversations
The Daily Stoic
June 27, 2024
Resilience & grit
8
Deep work & focus
6
Focusing only on what you control eliminates most suffering.
Shipwrecks, exile, failure — hardship becomes fortune if you choose.
Non-negotiable habits are the earliest warning sign of burnout.
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Jessica Livingston built Y Combinator's founder-evaluation edge
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
June 27, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Hiring & recruitment
6
Why YC funded Airbnb despite hating the idea
Earnestness and defensiveness predict founder success better than charisma
Batch investing was invented because YC had no idea what it was doing
How to grow website traffic to 10,000 monthly visits with SEO
Ahrefs
June 26, 2024
SEO
9
Content marketing
5
Evergreen SEO compounds over time; viral content fades to zero.
Only target keywords where similarly authoritative sites already rank.
Internal links distribute PageRank — structure your site like a hub.
Continuous leadership development through learning, teaching, and reflection
Bill Gallagher
June 26, 2024
Management
8
Identity & self-belief
6
Productivity & habits
5
Teaching what you learn is the step most leaders skip
You've never arrived — high achievers must embrace always becoming
Unsolicited coaching gets rejected; ask permission before you teach
Motorola Solutions: how a legacy brand rebuilt itself around mission-critical communications
Business Breakdowns
June 26, 2024
Pivoting
9
Capital allocation
8
Business models
6
80% market share in a sticky, government-backed radio monopoly most investors missed
Buybacks at one-third of today's price drove most of the long-term return
Adjacent moves into video and software doubled the growth profile without sacrificing margins
Managing social media DMs and comments with Semrush Social Inbox
Semrush
June 26, 2024
Social media
9
Automation & tools
6
Customer experience
5
One inbox handles all social DMs and comments across platforms
Labels, assignments, and filters cut through message volume fast
Quick-reply templates mean fewer keystrokes per customer response
Business operating systems
YouTube
Knowing the right numbers to make live decisions
EOS Worldwide
June 26, 2024
Business operating systems
10
Management
6
Great entrepreneurs know the exact numbers that drive live decisions.
Data volume matters less than knowing which metrics actually count.
Calculated gut instinct is built on targeted, not exhaustive, data.
Why most people fail to grow on social media
GaryVee
June 26, 2024
Social media
8
Content marketing
6
Identity & self-belief
5
Selfishness — not strategy — is why most social accounts stagnate
TikTok killed the follower advantage; quality now beats audience size
Diversify platforms before you're forced to, not after
Founder interviews
Podcast
Slutty Vegan founder Pinky Cole on building a brand-first vegan chain
Masters of Scale
June 25, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Branding
8
Resilience & grit
7
70% of Slutty Vegan customers are meat eaters — that's the strategy
Why stepping away from your own company is the hardest founder lesson
Surviving as every other vegan chain closes around you
Long-term planning
YouTube
Set priorities from your future goals, not current problems
Bill Gallagher
June 25, 2024
Long-term planning
8
Goal setting
6
Current problems are past-rooted — don't let them set your agenda
Work backwards from a 10-year vision to quarterly priorities
Long-standing pain points are often things to cut, not fix
Testing pricing, lifetime deals, and building for your best customers
Startups For the Rest of Us
June 25, 2024
Pricing strategy
9
Retention & loyalty
6
Business models
5
Why lifetime deals quietly undermine the SaaS recurring revenue advantage
How to test pricing without A/B traffic using demos and page swaps
Acquisition needs breadth; retention demands building everything for one ICP
The integrator's role: bridging visionary and organisation
EOS Worldwide
June 25, 2024
Management
9
Business operating systems
6
Reading Traction or Rocket Fuel triggers a business-changing aha moment
Visionaries think at 30,000 feet; integrators close the gap to 1,000
Filter ideas ruthlessly — then galvanise the team around the right ones
Using YouTube as a lead engine, not a business model
Sunny Lenarduzzi
June 25, 2024
Business models
9
Content marketing
8
AdSense and sponsorships keep the platform in control of your income
Free content builds trust; a paid program delivers the transformation clients pay for
You don't need a big audience — you need genuine expertise and the right offer