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By Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, and David Friedberg

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Marketing3 steps

Become a Value-Added Advisor with Cross-Section Data

Turn the industry data only you can see into exclusive insight that keeps customers from churning.

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Innovation4 steps

Change the Rules of the Game

When the game is rigged against you, don't optimize — invent a new model.

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Strategy4 steps

Conservative Plan with Milestone Unlocks

Plan for the downside, then let pre-agreed milestones unlock the budget to accelerate.

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Mindset3 steps

Extract the Chain-of-Thought, Not the Recommendation

Treat every advisor as an LLM: mine their reasoning, not their verdict, because their answer is trained on a different corpus.

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Leadership4 steps

Fast-Thinking / Slow-Thinking Org Split

Split product org into a weekly-shipping AI group and a deliberate-infrastructure group so both speeds coexist.

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Strategy3 steps

Focus With Guardrails

Concentrate on one channel but set abandonment criteria up front so you know exactly when to move on

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Productivity3 steps

Greedy-but-Smart Compute Allocation

Throw hundreds of dollars of inference at high-value problems — the value-to-cost ratio is absurd in your favor.

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Leadership5 steps

Hire the Deputy, Not the VP

Hire two gritty early-stage sellers from an analogous company, not a professionally rich VP.

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Leadership3 steps

Move Your Best Closers to Customer Success

In a downturn, patch the leaky bucket — put your top reps on keeping the customers you already have.

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Marketing4 steps

Onboarding Leverage For Robust Products

Use customized onboarding to reconcile simple-enough with pro-grade, and unlock 2-4x activation

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Marketing3 steps

Paid Readiness Diagnostic

Read a company's funnel to judge whether paid can be a profitable channel or only a learning tool

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Innovation4 steps

Play-First AI Fluency

Build real AI intuition by playing — invent fun side projects, use everything, and share the artifact not the doc.

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Sales4 steps

Retention-Aligned Sales Compensation

Pay reps for customers who stay, renew, and expand — not just for the logo they closed.

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Finance3 steps

Subscription Funnel Benchmarks

Category-dependent conversion thresholds for judging whether a subscription funnel is healthy

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Influence4 steps

Teach, Don't Pitch: The Buyer-Research Cold Open

Do research so good the buyer can't ignore it — give insight, not a sales pitch.

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Marketing4 steps

The 2-of-3 SEO Opportunity Audit

Decide if SEO is worth pursuing by checking three angles and time-boxing the test to three months

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Sales5 steps

The Consultant With a Predilection

Be a consultant who favours one solution: yours. Disqualify hard, let discovery persuade.

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Strategy3 steps

The Diversification Timing Test

Know whether it's too early to diversify growth channels or dangerously overdue

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Leadership4 steps

The Full-Stack Role Collapse

In the AI era every role needs a minimum baseline in the adjacent two — deep in one, dangerous in the rest.

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Leadership5 steps

The Leading-Indicator Ramp Scorecard

Judge a new seller each month on the indicator due that month, not on bookings.

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Strategy4 steps

The Refounding Test

Ask how you'd rebuild AI-native from scratch — then decide whether your legacy asset helps or you should sell.

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Sales5 steps

The Sales Motion as Source Code

Treat the pitch like a codebase: run cohorts of 10, patch the bug the prospect found, redeploy.

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Sales5 steps

The Second-Date Funnel

Win rate is a lagging indicator. Manage the meeting-to-meeting conversions like dates.

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Sales6 steps

The Selling While Loop

Sell it yourself until it reliably runs on your local, then package it and ship it to other brains.

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Marketing3 steps

The Three Growth Engines Selection

Diagnose which of virality, SEO, or paid your product can actually grow on before spending on any

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Leadership5 steps

The Written Screen Job Simulation

Send a shared doc of a dozen easy questions. Half the candidates disqualify themselves.

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Communication5 steps

Turbo Rapport and Sales Scales

Sales is a set of drills, not a birthright — practise your scales on baristas and bartenders.

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Innovation3 steps

Vibes Before Evals

For a genuinely new AI feature, start with open-ended vibes testing; add evals only once the use-case cluster is clear.

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Sales4 steps

Warm-Intro-via-Text Closing Play

Host a customers-only event, harvest referrals, and convert them over text — not email.

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