Founder Fridays
Kyle WestawayHelping startup founders and operators scale smarter.
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Founder Fridays No. 202
Happy Friday.
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Don’t Copy, Localize
A century before “product-market fit” was a phrase, Shinjiro Torii built Japan...
Founder Friday No. 201
Happy Friday! Welcome to the month July.
As is my annual tradition, here’s my 4th of July country music playlist. It’s 21+ hours of country with the top 10 country songs from 1990-2025 + new stuff I like this year. Enjoy.
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Founder Friday No. 200
I started sending Founder Fridays to a handful of clients back in February of 2022. I couldn't have imagined that the community would grow to 50,000+ founders 200 weeks later. Thank you for being part of it, and for sharing it with your fri...
Founder Fridays No. 199
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Compute in Orbit
SpaceX’s biggest revenue line by 2030 won’t be rockets or satellites — it’ll be s...
Founder Fridays No. 198
Happy Friday.
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Fish for Rejection Early
The Meta CRO who scaled one of history’s most important revenue orgs says...
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Kyle Westaway is a startup attorney. For over 15 years he’s helped early-stage founders scale their companies smarter. He's the author of Profit & Purpose and writes about entrepreneurship for Forbes.
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