Introducing “Exponential”

I’ve spent the past decade helping startups and established companies innovate and achieve massive growth. Collectively, I’ve helped them raise billions of dollars in capital, go public or get acquired, and propelled share prices up during market headwinds. My newsletter, Exponential, will focus on sharing my experiences and approach to solving some of the toughest challenges in business and professional development.?

I recently came to an important counter-intuitive realization:

Knowledge isn’t more valuable when it’s scarce. It’s more valuable when it has scale.

Thought is not a supply and demand based product. Think about that ;-)

To apply this to myself– I know my experiences and approach are valuable to companies because I’m compensated in meaningful equity. So understandably I believed that I needed to guard the underlying asset, my brain, and only share thoughts when compensated or if asked by a mentee.

But I was dead wrong. My background and the way I think about problems have a fundamental value, even more so when highly available. Some people will naturally interpret freely available information as less valuable but this doesn’t change the true fundamental value.

Specifically, I don’t think the high availability of my experiences and approach makes my direct involvement as an advisor or operator at a company any less valuable. On the contrary, my involvement is of additional value because my application of my experiences and approach is the product.

It’s not a zero sum game.?

Companies I work with don’t benefit any less from me helping the overall market at a broader scale. A more valuable world benefits everyone. As JFK would say “a rising tide lifts all boats.” Or perhaps more popular today: an abundance mindset is more powerful than a scarcity mindset.?

As I open source my way of thinking, I hope to help you take your thinking to the next level, help you solve impossible challenges, and achieve big, hairy, audacious goals (BHAGs) for your companies. I’ll share stories from working live in the studio with famous pop stars, what I’ve learned launching brands, the direction of technology, and tips for everything from raising capital to increasing your professional potential. If this sounds interesting I hope you’ll join me on this journey. Please subscribe and share this with others.

Let’s build value in the world together–exponentially!