Programmers Chasing a Payday: The Investor Trap in Basement-Built SaaS
You’re not funding innovation. You’re funding exit-bait. Here’s how to spot fake leverage and protect capital from basement-built SaaS traps.
Two jobs in nearly four decades.
I’ve either been creating, growing and exiting businesses or helping others to do the same. The best definition I know for success is to live the life you choose mindfully and consciously.
From the writing
All of the writingStop Worshipping the Genius Dev: Build a Business That Survives One
Still worshipping your “genius dev”? You’ve built a bottleneck, not a business. Here’s how to scale without crashing the whole thing.
Your Culture’s Not Broken. Your Leadership’s Out of Alignment
Most culture problems are leadership problems in disguise. If your leadership actions don’t align with your organisational purpose, expect drift, doubt, and decay. This article shows how alignment, done right, becomes the lever for clarity, culture, and results.
The 5 Unbreakable Laws of Leadership
Leadership isn’t theory. It’s leverage. These 5 unbreakable laws expose the difference between noise and results. Break them, and you bleed.
My Way of Being
I get up every morning
to transform how the world works,
to align business and pleasure as mutually inclusive,
so that more people live life and business
on purpose, with passion.
Some of the things I’m personally passionate about, beyond the work.
Education, re-imagined.
Even the systems that call themselves future-focused are building for a world that will be gone in 30 years. I’ve imagined something that meets the one that’s coming.
Be, without thinking.
No judgement of self or others, and no arguing with reality. Most of what we call perception is interpretation. It is what it is.
Effortless giving.
The world already holds enough for every person to live well. The shortage is not resources, it is distribution, and giving is how I work on my end of it.
Spirituality.
Call it God, Allah, spirit, or source; the label makes no difference to me. We each have our own path. This is an insight into mine.
Talks
See the talks- Ownership Is a Tolerance IssueWhy most culture problems are actually standards problems.
- Experience as the Operating SystemTotal QX™ applied to service-led businesses where experience is the asset that compounds.
- The Operator on the BoardWhat a working board director actually contributes.
- When the Board Fails the CompanyA decade of board observation across PE-backed and public-company settings.
- What Are We Passing On?From The Inheritance Manifesto: intergenerational transmission as the most consequential work any society does.
Bookings are by direct enquiry. I do not appear on speaker bureaus.