Systems & Side-eyes
Katie Barnes, Shannon Bindler, Juan Salas-Romer, Alex Randall KittredgeA field guide for cleaning up chaos, building smarter systems, and surviving early-stage silliness with your integrity intact.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 65 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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For founders living the chaos and operators cleaning it up. Startup systems, founder psychology, practical tools, and the occasional side-eye.
Half psychology, half cosmic wink. Naming the patterns you’ve been sensing.
4x Founder, $35M exits. Babson & BC entrepreneurship and finance MBA degrees. I help non-tech founders build AI-powered businesses that earn more, serve clients better and free up their time.
Strategy consultant to technical founders; built my career across a $20B family office, fintech startup, intelligence work, and my own firm. I write ARK Strategy: portfolio careers for the post-AI economy. Careers aren't ladders — they're portfolios.
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