January 27, 2026/4 min readWhat the buyer actually boughtIn short: I sold my startup and its technology, and I do not think the buyer was paying for clever code. They were paying for the parts that keep the product working without me: the pipeline that…
December 30, 2025/4 min readBuilding a product alone: what I automated, what I did by handIn short: running a company of one, I automated anything that repeated and had a clear right answer, like deploys, billing and checking the retrieval pipeline. I kept doing by hand anything where the…
October 7, 2025/5 min readLeaving a job to build: the first two weeksIn short: I've left my job at a medical AI company to build my own product, alone. I gave myself two weeks of setup before any product code: a one-page brief, accounts with budget alarms, a deploy…
September 23, 2025/5 min readIdeas are cheap. Working software isn't.In short: an idea gets a weekend from me when I can name the person who would use it, the one thing it has to do, and how I'll know by Sunday night whether it works. If I can't write those three…
October 22, 2024/4 min readThree things big tech does that startups should copy, and three they shouldn'tIn short: copy the demo culture, the habit of measuring what users actually feel, and the discipline of writing ideas down properly. Don't copy the approval layers, the urge to build for every device…