Profile 6 min read

Lessons from Patrick Collison

Patrick Collison, the Irish entrepreneur who co-founded Stripe with his brother John, connects company building with broad curiosity about technology, business, and learning, showing why the intellectual habits surrounding a startup matter alongside its operating choices.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Jeff Weinstein

Jeff Weinstein, a product lead at Stripe, examines product development through customer-centered strategy and a culture of excellence, bringing product managers and entrepreneurs back to the essential challenge of building things that are both useful and meaningful.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from David Goggins

David Goggins, a retired Navy SEAL and ultramarathon runner, turns a journey through hardship and obesity into a demanding philosophy of brutal honesty, relentless self-discipline, and mental mastery—a direct challenge to comfort, excuses, and mediocrity.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Ashkan Karbasfrooshan

Ashkan Karbasfrooshan on building WatchMojo: persistence, bootstrapping, evergreen content, audience strategy, principles, and sustainable success.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor, co-founder of 11:FS and author of Fintech Brainfood, draws on experience in blockchain research, strategy, and content to explain financial technology’s evolution—and the forces shaping its past, present, and long-term future direction.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Donald Trump

Donald Trump, whose real-estate and business career preceded his presidency, approaches deal-making, management, and investment with a bold, direct style, offering a case study in how forceful strategy shapes negotiation and executive decision-making in practice.
Profile 6 min read

Lessons from Alex Schultz of Meta

Alex Schultz, Meta’s Chief Marketing Officer and VP of Analytics, pairs data with pragmatism in growth strategy, arguing that retention is the bedrock: durable expansion begins with a product users choose to keep using.
Profile 6 min read

Lessons from Geoffrey Miller

Geoffrey Miller, an evolutionary psychologist, argues that intelligence, creativity, humor, and morality evolved not merely as survival tools but as courtship displays, framing the human mind as a product of sexual selection and ancestral mating choices.

Choose your reading rhythm.

Start with a weekly briefing, add daily notes, or hear only when a durable essay or research update is ready.
You've successfully subscribed to Antoine Buteau
You've successfully subscribed to Antoine Buteau
Welcome back! You've successfully signed in.
Press ESC to close.