GitLab has a five-step process for evaluating potential M&A opportunities. It starts by building a pipeline and going through a detailed exploratory phase. Then, the team does early diligence and confirmatory due diligence before a nuanced integration process. Check out the complete overview of each step here.
If you're building a consumer subscription app, this is a post you'll want to bookmark. It lays out a detailed blueprint for how to grow your business–from a benchmarking tool that will help you identify your most significant growth opportunities to a list of the ten most potent levers for scaling your app. Check out the complete framework.
The product management job market is changing rapidly. Drawing from interviews with over 50 product managers, hiring managers, and recruiters, James Gunaca shares the significant trends taking shape. This article looks at the new challenges both candidates and employers face and how they are reshaping the hiring process in tech.
It's entirely possible that using AI agents will be the next big thing for the legal industry. It won't be just an incremental improvement, either. Agents will take on complete, complex projects. OpenAI's new 01 model is bringing agentic approaches to ChatGPT, which will quickly change how we think about AI. This is an excellent overview of some specific legal work applications.
OpenAI released two significant new preview models, and there is a lot to understand about them. They are designed to spend more time on reasoning capabilities, but meaningful trade-offs come in terms of cost and performance. This article dives into some of the details of the API documentation and hidden reasoning tokens.
Google has been ruled an unlawful monopoly twice now. The first case involved its control over the Android app store in its fight with Epic Games. The second was about the tech giant's monopoly over search in a battle with the government. Neither case is finished, but judges found that Google acted in bad faith with its treatment of documents in both instances. Yet another Google antitrust trial starts this week. Will this be the third strike?
Trust in publishers providing useful product recommendations has essentially dropped to zero. Mass-market publications are no longer viewed as the authority for product reviews. Google is actively demoting many publishers from ranking in search, which has downstream implications for affiliate revenue models. Expect the affiliate market to continue changing over the next several years.
Paul Graham recently published an article about "founder mode," which provoked much discussion in the tech world. The parallels extend far beyond the C-suite. The highly engaged, flexible style of leadership he describes could extend to many different parts of an organization. This is a valuable read about implementing "founder mode" principles.
Every leader knows AI is the future, but they don't know where to start. Geoff Woods was a C-level executive at a multi-billion-dollar steel company, which he helped lead from a $750M market cap to $12B within four years. He recently published a book called The AI-Driven Leader, and this article provides a good recap of some of the big themes.
To the best of your ability, avoid working on "easy" things. When you work on hard problems, you'll get more help and resources, making it easier and more rewarding to succeed in the long run. Don't forget that your productivity is a result of what you choose to work on. Keep things perceived as easy off your list whenever you can.
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