Lessons from Canva’s Global Head of Product Robert Kawalsky
Things I overheard in conversation with a $50B product leader and the head of product at the hottest AI product company around.
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Investing in the Shadow of AGI: Merge the old and the new
VCs are famous for asking startups, “What is stopping Apple, Meta, and Alphabet from doing this?”
“Go-to-Market” must be on your mind from day one
You can put off monetization, but not thinking about monetization
What to Do When a Co-Founder Can’t Scale
A high-quality startup problem is when the company starts to scale but one of the co-founders can’t grow at the same pace as the other. It’s a good problem but a real challenge nonetheless. Here are some thoughts on how I’ve seen it handled well (and not).
How to Conquer Silicon Valley from Sydney, Stockholm, or South Africa
One of the secrets of B2B entrepreneurship is that a good enough product with exceptional distribution will win more often than an exceptional product with mediocre distribution.
Your pitch deck isn’t an application for financial aid
If you’re pitching investors, one of the easiest ways to improve your deck is swapping out blank interstitial slides, or the dull logo cover slide, with pictures of your product in use or in context.