Build To Scale
Zack UrlockerLessons learned in scaling $20b worth of B2B software companies
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Is Your Startup Defensible?
In the ancient days of the software industry (e.g. pre LLM), your technical architecture and talent provided a competitive moat. If you had top-notch engineers building out new technology, you had a one or two year lead against the competit...
Vibe Coding - Part Deux
I found last month’s vibe coding episode interesting and fun. I shared the article (and the video blackjack game!) with a few people and got good feedback.
As impressed as I was with ChatGPT and Codex, I’ve seen many founders dismiss AI a...
Don't Bet Against Vibe Coding!
There’s no doubt that AI has improved more in the last three years than in the previous sixty-five. (Yes, AI has been around that long!) Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Mistral and others have made huge strides in developing Large Language Model...
Ch-Ch-Changes!
When you work in a startup, it can feel like you’re in a constant state of flux. If you’re in a high growth company (tripling or more year over year) it will feel like new company every six to nine months. You’ve got different customers, sa...
Come Together!
As companies grow beyond the first couple of dozen employees, alignment often starts to fray—not because people aren’t committed, but because the implicit culture of the founding team no longer scales. New hires bring different backgrounds...
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I helped lead software companies to billion dollar exits 4 times: Duo Security, Zendesk, MySQL, Active Software --generating more than $20b in returns. I'm writing a book "Build To Scale" to help founders and executives scale their company.
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