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Welcome to issue 591 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.
General

An ex-Googler built a $220m company by creating software for flooring stores.
They scaled to $10s of million in revenue in just a few years. The wild story you've never heard of.

Modern Meditations: Scott Belsky
The Adobe CPO on innovating from within, shipping slow, and AI.

Zūm’s Path to Product-Market Fit 
How The Student Transportation Company Found Product-Market Fit Twice.

The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier
Generative AI is poised to unleash the next wave of productivity. We take a first look at where business value could accrue and the potential impacts on the workforce.

Forget Networking and Build Your Personal Board of Directors Instead
How a small group of people can be the trusted advisors you need to catalyze your extraordinary success.


Marketing, Sales and PR

Definitive Guide to Sales KPIs
Utilizing data from over 275 SaaS companies, learn which sales metrics are most important, how to calculate them, and how you measure up against industry benchmarks.

Snyk created a brilliant GitHub-based acquisition and engagement growth loop.
Here's how it works and why it's so good.


Money and Finance

Growth-stage startup valuations: Guiding principles for comps selection
Even 'sophisticated' investors have made the costly mistake of picking wrong relative valuation comps. To avoid missteps, here is a proposed first principles framework for comparable company analysis.

Why Don't VCs Give Feedback?
The post explores the lack of feedback provided by venture capitalists (VCs) to entrepreneurs, highlighting its impact on the startup ecosystem and suggesting potential reasons behind this phenomenon.
 
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