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Last Updated: September 24th, 2026 I recently gave my Executive Assistant a project: Find us a nanny. This is exactly the kind of thing I’d normally procrastinate on for 10 days. The…
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Founder Files
Stories and lessons about hiring, management, and building teams from Kyle Mau.
Hiring Guides
Long-form, searchable, evergreen resources.
Role Guides
Hospitality Is the Eighth Circle of Hell One of my recruiters has a saying. Hospitality is the eighth circle of hell. And…
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Role Guides
A client comes to us needing a Developer. Somewhere in the first 10 minutes, he says some version of the same sentence:…
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Hiring Process
I was standing at a gas station outside Wrocław, Poland, about to leave a weekend retreat with my Polish business group. I…
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Role Guides
If you’re about to hire an eBay Virtual Assistant, there are 3 rules. Follow them and this hire works. Break any one…
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Role Guides
The pitch meeting was great. The senior strategist ran the room. He knew your industry. He asked the one question about your…
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Team Management
Four of the most successful people alive were each asked, in one form or another, how they delegate. At their level, “I…
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Role Guides
Did you lock the front door? You did. You know you did. Because you remember the click. But you’re halfway down the…
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Role Guides
Every year, Formula 1 comes to Monaco. The yachts stack 3 deep in the harbor. The cars thread through streets so narrow…
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Role Guides
Vancouver, 2006. A 29-year-old Mozilla programmer named Graydon Hoare comes home from work and finds his building’s elevator out of order. The…
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Founder Files
300–500 words. One idea, one story. No table of contents, no bloated SEO structure.
Oct 2026
Everybody wants business growth to look like a straight line from the bottom left of the chart to the top…
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Oct 2026
Danny Meyer has a story in his book Setting the Table that I think about more than I’d like to…
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Apr 2026
I did something dumb this week. I searched “Virtual Assistant services” on Google and clicked on every single result on…
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Apr 2026
My parents took us to Applebee’s growing up. It was the “we’re not cooking tonight” restaurant. Nothing fancy. Nobody pretended…
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Short stories and sharp lessons about hiring, management, and building teams.
