Newsletters, long reads, films and conversations — produced for Club members, never sponsored.
Recorded in a blacked-out studio with a single mic between us: why the sharpest founders of 2026 stopped optimising features and started engineering want.
A blue poster, a white room, one question: what would you build if the plan wasn't allowed to be small?
Notebook open, laptop half-shut: the week's funding rounds and where AI infra spend is actually landing.
A short note on the week's central-bank call: which rounds reopened, which valuations slipped, and what founders should price in next.
Inside an amber-lit robotics floor where six people and one arm produce what forty used to.
Forty-eight hours inside a fulfillment floor as a hardware team ships its first thousand units — the unedited version.
On camera: the Tuesday a SaaS team killed its flagship product, kept the team, and re-emerged with a second product that doubled revenue.
Filmed in the studio, camera rolling — three SaaS founders re-price mid-contract and keep every customer.
An unedited table conversation about the moment the spreadsheet stops being enough — and what the hire costs.
A founder-CFO duo walks through the final 72 hours of their Series B — the clauses that nearly killed it and the one that saved it.
Invoice timing, card float and supplier terms — the unglamorous levers that turn a good quarter into a celebration.
Pool-side is the easy part. A comparison of policies that actually cover cancelled boards, lost kit and medical evacuation.
A one-page cheat sheet on the ratios that separate a fundable company from a slow bleed — read aloud at the kitchen table, not just the boardroom.
A live teardown of a product spec — tech pack, labels and tolerances — from first sketch to factory-ready file.
A live build from first prototype to retail-ready SKU — with the spec sheet, the supplier calls and the tolerances that nearly broke it.
A workshop teardown of three pricing pages — what to keep, what to cut and the one tier that quietly carries the whole business.
A decision tree for teams under 100 people — written by someone answering Slack with their feet on the table.
The layers are splitting. A map of where the value is settling in 2026 — and which founders are quietly building the new rails.
A decision framework for teams under 100: which AI capabilities are worth shipping yourself, and which to rent until the dust settles.
Producers raise money one small cheque at a time. What a seat at the table really costs — and the odds a hit ever pays it back.
A real spreadsheet from a real angel: check size, ownership, dilution and the expected-value calc that makes a small fund actually work.
Why 2026 is the year founders sold before an exit — and the terms that decided whether they celebrated or regretted it.
Aisle by aisle, Lucio and Susan Co built a hypermarket chain into a top-five fortune. A lesson in unglamorous, compounding retail.
Billionaire Lucio Tan's carrier orders wide-bodies and reopens long-haul routes, wagering that premium demand outlasts the cycle.
Aisle economics, not ambition, built the chain. What the unit economics of a single store tell you about a multi-billion fortune.
Three experts on where AI sharpens an application across the interview table — and where recruiters spot it instantly.
Outside the Charleston Road sign, the research bench is thinning. Where the departures land tells you who wins the next model cycle.
A playbook from three hiring leads on compressing a six-week process into fourteen days — without scaring off the best candidate in the room.
Rooms like this one are the channel. Why brands that let people take part outgrow brands that only broadcast at them.
The founders with the cleanest growth curves this year stopped hunting press. They built a channel of their own — and let the logos chase them.
A teardown of three teams that shipped identical software — and why the one that owned its audience won the market outright.
Unfiltered conversations with founders, investors and operators — recorded in the members' lounge.
One brief on capital, hiring and the deals worth your attention.
