Moat vs Head Start: How I Filter Product Features
Arc Browser taught me the difference between moats and head starts. I use a 3-question filter when building O9X. Real decisions, real numbers.
Personal Writings
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Essays drawn from building businesses, making calls under uncertainty, and learning the hard way. These pieces are reflective than my operator notes as they are less about execution, more about how my thinking has changed over time.
You’ll find writing on entrepreneurship, sales, marketing, AI, and the mental models I keep returning to when decisions stop being obvious.
This is where ideas are shaped before they become systems.
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Payroll, Power, and Reality: 5 Business Lessons I Learned the Hard Way
A founder’s reflection on mastering the un-glamorous work, using absence as leverage, and channeling fear into systems — inspired by Robert Greene
What AI Gets Right (And Wrong) About Starting a Business
What different AI Models have to say to anyone keen to start their own business and my analysis on what they got right (and wrong)
Why Your Boring System is Your Secret Superpower
Simplify your business by ditching chaos. Understand why boring documentation and simple systems is your secret for predictable business success
The Question That Disappeared: From Evaluating Stay-or-Leave to Engineering Freedom
From Reliance Jio to Ola to my own business: how I evolved from evaluating stay-or-leave decisions to structuring a business where I control the exit.
Tier 1 Problems: Why Most Product Launches Fail
A Case study from my own business on how to validate a new business idea to achieve product market fit