The Wisdom Wall

“And so what I don't believe in at all is like, hey, pay yourself nothing and really prove like you're some harder that can live off like 25,000 dollars a month. Because at the end of the day, like as an entrepreneur, You want to make sure that all of your focus and attention are focused on the business and not how are…”

“I know some entrepreneurs that actually get into, like, kind of pivoting their business to do consulting as well. And they kind of phrase it as, I'll do consulting to learn about the space a bit more, but it's really kind of to pay the bills. And I think it's just a total distraction from what it takes to scale your…”

“If you're heads down building and actually executing the business and growing it, those investors will be that much hungrier to speak to you in the future than if you took a 30 minute call with them now.”

“I mean, just like a big thing for entrepreneurs in general, targeting a core user that doesn't have money is not a great way to make money.”

“it's hard to, it's hard to monetize matchmaking for co-founders because if you do it well, it happens once.”

“You could be one of 20,000 people at Deloitte in that exact same role, or you could be one of one, the only person building what you're building at Morning Brew and make a real difference.”

“I'd say the most important thing I do is protect the engineer's time and make sure that they aren't building things that are either incorrect or not the most prioritized thing that we should be building.”

“The downside is I think as a lot of product and engineering minded people, they always want the most efficient process. And the thought of having to do something as manual as like scraping emails, sorting them into CSV, trying to find like the right newsletter to target and then emailing them manually just to wait…”

“it's just such a efficiency and bandwidth drag to have Quote, unquote, lower quality engineers bring down the bandwidth of the team because that requires other engineers to clean up their code or, like, have to review it even, like, more thoroughly.”

“One was, like, I think what you're alluding to is, like, building in public, which I'm a huge fan of for a lot of different reasons, but one in particular is I think people align with people over brands.”

“I think the thing that everyone shares is, like, I wish that I hired HR sooner, especially as a remote company. I think there's, like, you typically think HR is, like, problems or, like, arguments or, like, solving different, like, sexual harassment in the office. Like, how do we deal with that? Like, ideally, HR would…”

“what you realize as you scale a company is like the actual building software and building processes is actually the easiest part of scaling a business at a, at a point. It's the people problem of having people continue to perform at a high level, continue to execute to the level that you expect them to, and to manage…”

“there's a part of product marketing of being able to break down, like, why does that matter to your core users that don't care about the feature, they care about the output. And so being able to change your marketing to be more value based and output based versus functionality based is a big shift that we're trying to…”