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Just turned on the movie Margin Call. Feels appropriate.

What companies (like Rippling) are hiring former founders? I have a friend, has started 3 companies, super talented across product/ops/GTM looking to join something.

I think a few frames in product thinking are standing time as well as Brian Balfour's four fits.

I enjoy this nerd talk on product strategy on Fareed Mosavat and Brian Balfour pod: pca.st/episode/dec110…

Wow, talking with Brian Balfour about growth strategy in voice mode is pure awesomeness: superme.ai/bbalfour

best time to ship 🫡 AI Engineer Reforge amazing event swyx 💤

Congrats to AI Engineer 2025 Best Speakers! MCP: David Cramer Tiny Teams: alex duffy LLM Recsys: Devansh GraphRAG: Daniel Chalef Fortune 500 Day 1: Harrison Chase Architects Day 1: Denys Linkov Infra: Dylan Patel Voice: Brooke Hopkins Product Management: Brian Balfour Agent

Absolutely agree Brian Balfour! While shipping velocity continues to increase, feedback and learning velocity are falling behind (unless, one has tonnes of traffic already and can A/B test the most complex decisions). Getting the right inputs to make decision is the bottleneck now.

Had an awesome time rapping w/ Brian Balfour and Fareed Mosavat re AI moats, whats happening and what's coming. Each tech wave moves faster than the last- and besides this wave being the fastest so far, it may be the last we can keep up with... youtu.be/RVBIdTxpikM?si…

This episode of Unsolicited Feedback might be one of the most precise articulations of what’s happening in product and AI. Brian Balfour, Fared Masavat, and Ravi Mehta break down the current “product-market-fit expansion blitz: everyone is bundling, launching, and racing to own

Brilliant post by Brian Balfour Take a look if you care about distribution open.substack.com/pub/brianbalfo…

This is really good and something everyone in the SEO space ought to read pronto, even if you're not in B2B. Sums up the large tech platform playbook nicely. (I lived through the Facebook/MySpace portion of this!) Re: Google, I would also add that this theory lends credibility

"What separates a major platform shift from a minor one isn't the technology itself. It's whether that shift enables both new ways of building things AND new ways of reaching people." - Casey Winters The Next Great Distribution Shift: Facebook, Google, Apple, LinkedIn—every

Loved this from Brian - we’re at Step 2 of a very formulaic pattern. Watch out for oAI opening the floodgates to developers, crossing the 1B MAU or DAU threshold and then locking it down to maximize $$$. Prepare yourselves!

Does anyone know someone who works on the Google Vertex team? Have a couple of quick questions 🙏

🔗 Great read by Brian Balfour: blog.brianbalfour.com/p/the-next-gre…

"The battle between every startup and incumbent comes down to whether the startup can get the distribution before the incumbent can build the innovation."

By far the most common mistake people make when choosing a startup: failing to realize that basically the only thing that matters is whether the startup wins They get excited about a specific role, or being on a certain team, or a better cash comp But virtually everything they