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Welcome to issue 549 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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The Next Play
Nike CEO John Donahoe discusses the iconic sports retailer's digital transformation in recent years; the lessons learned as a four-time CEO; and his “head coach” mentality to leadership.

Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022
The landscape of social media is ever-changing, especially among teens who often are on the leading edge of this space. A new survey of American teenagers ages 13 to 17 finds that TikTok has established itself as one of the top online platforms for U.S. teens, while the share of teens who use Facebook has fallen sharply.

The Strategic Approach to Building a Board
Building your board forward from product-market fit—instead of backward from an IPO date—helps you clarify the most critical challenges facing your company and find the right people to advise you.

Marketing, Sales and PR

A Mutiny against traditional marketing
A rebellion against traditional marketing and growth engineering joined by teams at Snowflake, Salesforce, Carta, AngelList, Gong, Dropbox, Hopin and more.

How to Build a Killer Product-Led Growth Strategy for B2B
Let's get into what product-led growth is, why it's all the rage, and how to develop your bada*s PLG strategy.

How to Structure a Startup Sales Team for Optimal Land & Expand
Bill Binch, former CRO at Pendo, EVP Worldwide Sales at Marketo & operating partner at Battery shares his views on building world-class sales organizations.

Money and Finance

Bridge Loans
When fundraising gets tougher for startups, the existing investors (insiders) will often provide a bridge loan to the company to extend the runway for getting another round done. There is more of this sort of thing happening in today’s fundraising market and Fred Wilson shares some of the things he has learned about setting up bridge loans.

Valuing early stage companies
Learn how VCs come up with valuation when presenting a term sheet.

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