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By Aaron Korsh

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Build AND Buy

Reframe build-vs-buy as build-and-buy: buy 90% off the shelf, build the 10% that differentiates.

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Build-With-The-Tools Assessment

Don't test people on doing work without AI — hand them the tools and score what they can build in an hour

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CDP vs Reverse-ETL Stack Decision

Choose a centralized CDP stack or a warehouse-plus-reverse-ETL stack based on your engineering resources.

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Elastic-Demand Career Bet

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Future-Proof MTA Data Collection

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Patient-Then-Floor-It Hiring

Be obsessively patient hiring the founding team; step on the gas the moment demand exceeds what you can handle

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Problem-People-System (PPS)

Diagnose a systems request by problem and people first, never jump straight to the tool.

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Pull-Based Product-Market Fit

Be stubborn on your thesis but open on its form — chase the customer who is surprisingly easy to sell, not the one you must force

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RLAIF Reward Design

Have an expert define success criteria and a rubric once, then let AI reinforce the capability — more scalable than labeling examples

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The DORA Four Keys

Measure software delivery with two speed and two stability metrics that move in tandem.

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The Four-Box Framework

Write your hypothesis in words before you touch data, so you can debug the idea and the measurement separately.

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The Measurement Journey

Start measuring from words and people, then scale into system data — don't wait for perfect.

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The Weighted Decision Spreadsheet

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Thinking Gray

Defer black-or-white judgments about decisions and people until the last responsible moment.

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Three Tenets: Can-Do, High Standards, Intensity

The three cultural tenets Foody credits for the fastest revenue ascent in history

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Tool-Agnostic Hiring Test

Screen martech candidates for curiosity, engineering scrappiness, and freedom from tool bias.

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Value-Chain Eval

Before applying AI to your business, build a systematic test that measures how well it automates your core value chain

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When to Centralize a Martech Function

Use the 100-150 person threshold and b2c/b2b axis to decide when and where to own martech.

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