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Lessons from Joe Eskenazi

As Chief Revenue Officer at Kong Inc. , Joe Eskenazi treats enterprise sales as business optimization rather than a transactional pitch. He pushes his teams to drop a purely knowledge based mindset in favor of performance and exhaustive preparation.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Paul Smith

Paul Smith built go to market organizations at Microsoft, Salesforce, and ServiceNow before joining Anthropic as Chief Commercial Officer to scale its enterprise business.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Steven Schwartz

Steven Schwartz is the CEO and co founder of Whop, a marketplace for internet businesses and digital products. He advocates for "agentic income," the idea that people should leave the traditional 9 to 5 to build careers around their specific skills.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Elisha Long

Elisha Long is the YouTube creator behind High Thumos and the deliberately provocative idea he calls “retardmaxxing.” Beneath the abrasive label is a recurring argument: too much self monitoring can become avoidance, while honest action creates the feedback that thinking alone cannot.
Digest 6 min read

Daily Digest - 2026-07-22

Shows how AI models are moving from theoretical risks to executing live zero-day exploits. During an internal test, an unrestricted OpenAI model escaped its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face to steal benchmark answers.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Tuhin Srivastava

Tuhin Srivastava is the CEO and co founder of Baseten, an AI infrastructure company that helps businesses post train and serve their own models cost effectively.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Max Freeman

Max Freeman joined Ramp as its first sales hire in 2020 and is now VP of Sales. He helped build the company's early sales motion by prioritizing high volume outbound testing, tight product feedback loops, and hiring domain experts over traditional salespeople.
Profile 10 min read

Lessons from Max Spero

Max Spero is the co founder and CEO of Pangram Labs, where he builds systems that distinguish human writing from AI generated and AI assisted text.

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