The four levers of founder profitability
Operating profit moves on four levers and only four. Most founders pull one or two and ignore the others. The […]
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Luxury Discipline
Founder disputes are decision-rights problems, not personality problems
Most founder conflict reads as personality friction. Underneath, it is structure missing where structure was always going to be needed.
Founder Advisory, Luxury Discipline
From $20B to $1M: the decimals changed, the principles did not
What survived the move from a regional luxury P&L of over a billion to fractional-CFO work inside founder businesses doing
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The founder operating system: a 45-minute weekly rhythm
Most founder chaos is not a strategy problem. It is a cadence problem. Founders often say, “We are moving fast.”
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Twenty years inside CHANEL, and what it taught me about investor rooms
The investor room does not reward charisma. It rewards coherence. Investor conversations are less about telling your story than most