All of our Management articles

The Other PMF: Wes Kao’s Framework for Founders Who Want to Communicate — and Lead — Better
Tactical advice for founders on mastering “personality-message fit": leaning into your natural communication style.

Is All Micromanagement Bad? Here's How the Best Startup Leaders Balance Details and Delegation
Founders and execs from Apple, Rippling, Carta and more share their strategies for altitude shifting as a manager.

How Wes Kao coaches founders to influence, lead and get what they want \ Wes Kao (Executive coach, co-founder of Maven)
Wes Kao is an executive coach, advisor and instructor, best known for her newsletter on high-impact communication, and for co-founding course platform Maven and the AltMBA with Seth Godin.

Mastering the Human Side of Engineering: Lessons from Apple, Palantir and Slack
Apple engineering leader Michael Lopp gives tactical advice for managers on how to empower individual engineers — and become better leaders themselves.

What makes (or breaks) executive hires \ A deep dive with Eeke de Milliano (Head of Global Product at Stripe)
Eeke de Milliano is the Head of Global Product at Stripe, helping drive innovation and success in the company's product line. Before this role, she was Head of Product at Retool and co-founded Constellate.

The Rotation Program That Keeps This Startup’s Engineers Learning — and Not Leaving
Checkr VP of Engineering Krista Moroder opens up about the rotation program that’s helped keep her org’s non-regrettable attrition at near-zero.

Inside Clay's unconventional path to $1.25B: Rethinking GTM, pricing, and enterprise sales \ Varun Anand (Co-founder and Head of Operations)
Varun Anand is the co-founder and Head of Operations at Clay, a GTM development environment that combines data and AI to help over 5000 companies power everything from CRM enrichment to highly targeted outreach campaigns.

Everything in Business is About Fighting Entropy — Here’s How Rippling Does It
Matt MacInnis, COO of Rippling, shares why most companies slow down as they scale, and his advice for how startup founders and executives can prevent it.

Annual Planning Sucks — A CPO, CRO, CFO, and COO Share Advice on How to Make it Better
Four top execs reveal their annual planning secrets from Notion, Stripe, Vanta, Linear, Linktree and more. From addressing AI to adjusting org charts, this COO, CFO, CPO & CRO share insights so startups at any stage can build effective, realistic plans.

Shifting Career Altitudes: Insights from a CPO’s Journey Leading in Nearly Every Function \ Anneka Gupta (Rubrik, ex-LiveRamp)
Rubrik's CPO shares what leading teams in nearly every startup function has taught her about building products.