🎉 Firstly, welcome to everyonewho joined this week! You are now part of a cult of leaders helping to ideate and grow their tech startups together.

ICYMI 📚

If you are new here or just plain missed some of our previous sends, here is your quick catch up section.

PARTNERS 🎯

THE BIG NEWS 🎉

We have some news! IdeaHub has been acquired by Open Source CEO. ☕️

Bill Kerr is the founder of Open Source CEO and he has a wonderful newsletter. He will be continuing on the writing of this newsletter but rest assured you are in safe hands.

In 2023, IdeaHub was started to share startup lessons and document the process of building a great early stage company.

We’ve grown it to over 3,000 wonderful readers and we’re very happy for that.

If you want to stay in touch with us you can find Charlie here and John here.

Now, we’ll hand it over to Bill 🤝

THE DEEP DIVE👀

👋 Howdy, Doc (Bill) here. As Charlie and John mentioned, I am the founder of Open Source CEO—a global tribe outperforming the competition together.

I wanted to take this time to quickly say hello and give you a high level of what to expect. Before I do, let me give you the quick intro to who I am.

Now that you know a little bit about me, I’d love to connect personally on LinkedIn, Instagram & Twitter. Anywho, let's jump into what Open Source CEO is all about.

I built this community to help myself and people like me—founders, investors and leaders in tech. As you well know, business is hard. And sometimes you don’t really have the tools necessary to be great in your job. I aim to change that through a combination of goodies delivered straight into your inbox.

Interviews with entrepreneurs, and finally playbook breakdowns—taking something great and giving you a step by step guide to replicate in your business. Take a look below at some examples of what you can expect from us!

Original pieces

We love taking a business, idea, industry or other—see our Game of Thrones Torrhen Stark piece—and breaking it down in relatable terms. One of our favourites is our deep dive on Deel, EOR & The Future Of Global Teams.

Tools & resources

One of our most popular resourcesto help you outperform the competition is our Ultimate Investor Letter Database. Every letter from Berkshire Hathaway, Amazon, JP Morgan and more. We even hunted down the Buffet Partnership letters from Warren’s youth.

We also have our Awesome OKR Template, Ninja Swipe File and Epic Data Room you can go ahead and download. Check all those tools and more here.

Entrepreneurial deep dives

Next up we have our deep dives on the great entrepreneurs through history until today. What makes them tick, their trials and tribulations and how you can steal their playbook for yourself.

First one you should check out is 5000 word piece on Sam Altman of OpenAI.

Interviews with leaders

We also have interviews from the best leaders in startups, technology and venture capital. We’ve sat down startups from Seed to Series E. You get the chance to peek inside their brain and see how they thing about going from zero to 1 and beyond.

Check out our recent interview with Mercury founder Immad Akhund below.

Build in public posts

And finally, we love to build in public here. This goes for this newsletter and my startup Athyna. If you enjoy taking a look behind the curtain on how others run and manage their business—these editions are for you!

When you will hear from us

You'll hear from us every Sunday from now on from the Open Source CEO feed, depending on which end of the world you live. You can guarantee that, and you can also expect every so often to receive this email on a Thursday in the week as well. I am still figuring exactly what we’ll do with the IdeaHub brand. I like it and we may run both newsletters, for now, let’s see.

It’s really important to note that when you receive the first Open Source CEO newsletter it will not be from this email. It will come from: open-source-ceo@mail.beehiiv.com. So don’t freak out when that happens!

Thanks a lot. I am excited for all of this, Doc!

TWEET TOOLS🐣

TOOLS WE USE 🛠️

Every week we highlight tools we actually use inside of our business and give them an honest review. Today we are highlighting Attio—powerful, flexible and data-driven, the exact CRM your business needs.

See the full set of tools we use inside of Athyna & Open Source CEO here.

HOW I CAN HELP👋