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  • Markham Nolan

    Markham Nolan

    Co-founder: NOAN, AI 4 business-building
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    The biggest insight in 'Founder Mode' isn't founder mode.

    It's that managers have been trained all wrong for decades. If you're micromanaging you're doing it wrong. If you're completely hands off you're doing it wrong. Great managers need to be able to go from 10,000 feet to down in the weeds effortlessly, and know how and when to zoom in and out. Why is that such a revelation? Am I wrong?
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    What controversial thing do people disagree with you on, and how have you applied it to your biz?

    I'll go first. Make it super easy for your users to churn. In many ways this flies in the face of retention being cheaper than acquisition, but I'm a huge fan of businesses that make it easy to cut ties, and easy to return. The harder it is to break free, the less likely it is I'll ever come back. A few examples: I'll never resubscribe to the WSJ again, because cancelling a subscription is...
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    Here Lena use this code: bsky-social-onjzj-2dgpz
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    Does anyone have BlueSky invites?
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    Nuzzel. The only good news aggregtor app ever made.
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    Which non-existent product/brand would you bring back to life?
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