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170 B2B creators, with their ideas, best work and partnership options.

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Melanie Borden

187K followers

Melanie Borden is the founder of The Borden Group, which helps executives and companies build visibility and authority through personal branding. She also describes building Visible Leader, a personal-brand app, and Dirty Hippie, a local laundry and garment-care marketplace.

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Nathan Hirsch

96.1K followers

Nathan Hirsch is an entrepreneur who co-owns a portfolio of businesses in bookkeeping, finance, and marketing. They share practical lessons on growing companies, building lead-generation systems, and using technology to help teams do more without adding headcount.

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Joe Gannon

78.1K followers

Joe Gannon is a founder at Amplify who shares practical lessons on growing a business, using content and AI, and building brand relationships. His posts draw on experiences with online courses and cohorts, hiring, and working with brands.

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Luke Shalom

77.7K followers

Luke Shalom helps founders build LinkedIn-led sales pipelines. His posts describe using buyer signals to time outbound messages, tracking sales metrics, and applying AI tools to support prospecting and content.

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Ivelina Dineva

75.1K followers

Ivelina Dineva shares startup funding intelligence through EverythingStartups, tracking venture fund announcements and startup funding rounds and highlighting resources and funding opportunities for founders.

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Abhishek Mall

69.3K followers

Abhishek Mall writes LinkedIn case studies about Indian companies, their founders, and how they built consumer brands. Their posts examine decisions such as creating a new product category, earning customer trust, and turning an unbranded commodity into a recognized name.

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Clara Ma

64.1K followers

Clara Ma leads Ask a Chief of Staff, a community and recruiting resource for Chiefs of Staff. Her work includes sharing practical guidance for the role, connecting candidates with executive positions, and organizing peer events.

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Melanie Grace Saigol

63.4K followers

Melanie Grace Saigol is an entrepreneur who co-founded SaigolEd, an EdTech company, and runs Corporate Angels, a staffing and events business. Saigol's posts discuss building both businesses, raising investment for SaigolEd, and delivering events for clients.

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Jeremy Goillot

61.3K followers

Jeremy Goillot works at Allo, a business phone and sales software company, and writes about building SaaS businesses, AI tools and how companies can use them in their work.

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Arushi Malviya

58.5K followers

Arushi Malviya runs Inizio Media Ventures, helping B2B founders use LinkedIn content and outbound to build visibility and generate sales conversations.

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Mariya Valeva

56.3K followers

Mariya Valeva is a finance and scaling adviser who writes about the decisions that shape growing businesses, including senior hiring, cash, pricing, AI returns, and turning an audience into repeat customers.

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João Moura

53.1K followers

João Moura is the founder of CrewAI, a company building software for creating and managing AI agents for business work. His posts explain how agents can handle changing goals, coordinate across workflows, and operate with controls such as cost limits and data policies.

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Michele Sciabarrà

46K followers

Michele Sciabarrà is a Nuvolaris founder who works on AI products, including private AI applications that connect company data and systems to business processes. Sciabarrà has described focusing on product development and taking on the CTO role.

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Yash Patel

44K followers

Yash Patel writes about Indian businesses, consumer trends, and growth strategy, using company and product examples to explain shifts in areas such as e-commerce, delivery, and retail.

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Ryan Allis

36.9K followers

Ryan Allis shares advice and analysis for SaaS founders and B2B growth leaders, including company exits, growth strategy, and AI tools. He says he sold iContact for $169 million and runs the SaasRise and GrowthRise communities and growth services.

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Adam Holmgren

36.5K followers

Adam Holmgren is a co-founder of Fibbler, a company that connects engagement with ads to company-level pipeline and revenue data in a customer relationship management system, and alerts sales teams when to follow up.

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Nancy Wang

35.9K followers

Nancy Wang is a technology investor focused on cybersecurity and AI. Wang has led investment in security companies and founded Advancing Women in Tech, a nonprofit that offers practical career education.

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Drew F.

33.7K followers

Drew F. covers consumer-brand finance and deals, breaking down company growth, funding, acquisitions and valuation. The posts also show work on Iris, a finance platform, and a podcast for consumer-brand operators and finance professionals.

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Charles E. Gaudet II

33.6K followers

Charles E. Gaudet II hosts the Beyond 7 Figures podcast and shares practical advice for entrepreneurs on growing businesses, including marketing, attribution, delegation, and operations.

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Gustavo Diaz

30.6K followers

Gustavo Diaz shares practical advice on B2B sales and describes Andes Connect’s work helping LATAM startups reach the right enterprise decision-makers and move sales conversations forward.

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Romain Libeau

30.6K followers

Romain Libeau is a founder of Pivot, a procurement software company. The posts describe Pivot’s work on AI-native procurement software and focus on how data, system architecture, and implementation costs affect the value of procurement technology.

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Tamas Kadar

29.5K followers

Tamas Kadar writes about fraud prevention and risk strategy at SEON, including how companies can detect coordinated fraud and manage risks from AI shopping agents.

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Kyle Hunt

29.4K followers

Kyle Hunt advises agency owners on improving operations, including where to focus their time, how to reduce delivery rework, and when to avoid adding services that stretch a team beyond its strengths.

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Apurv Bansal

28.4K followers

Apurv Bansal hosts finance-industry conversations and writes about how finance teams can use AI and automation, move projects into production, and decide what to build or buy.

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Greg Portnoy

26.9K followers

Greg Portnoy works on B2B partner revenue, writing and speaking about how companies can build partner programs, measure their financial impact, and use AI agents to manage the work.

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Marty Samples

26.2K followers

Marty Samples shares practical advice for B2B founders on reducing operational bottlenecks and building systems for more predictable growth, including better CRM data, lead routing, and repeatable workflows.

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Tim S Dodd

25.7K followers

Tim S Dodd shares LinkedIn strategies for B2B companies seeking customers and stronger sales pipelines, including outreach, personal-brand content, and lead quality. Dodd's posts also describe building Client Wave, software based on Dodd's agency’s campaign experience.

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Alex Hall

25.6K followers

Alex Hall recruits construction professionals—including project managers, superintendents, estimators, and executives—for general contractors, developers, and engineering firms. Hall announced Hallbridge Talent Partners as the next step in that work.

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Stefan Repin

21.8K followers

Stefan Repin is a B2B marketer who focuses on account-based marketing and demand generation. Repin's work includes using buyer signals to guide account-specific campaigns and measuring marketing by its contribution to pipeline.

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Shao Hang He

18.3K followers

Shao Hang He builds and demonstrates AI tools for ecommerce, video creation, and workplace productivity. His posts show Athena AI extending videos and MailMagic automating email workflows; he also shares Shopify and Stripe community events.

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Lavine Hemlani

17.3K followers

Lavine Hemlani is a founder and business operator who writes about building companies, financial operations for founders, biotech partnerships, and investment opportunities in the Gulf. Their posts draw on examples from customer onboarding, fundraising, and business development to explain practical decisions founders face.

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Sarah Noel Block

17.2K followers

Sarah Noel Block is a B2B marketer who helps make marketing more engaging and relationship-led. Her work includes practical ideas for improving trade shows, from creating event content and hosting gatherings to following up with contacts personally.

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Manu Vanderveeren

16.1K followers

Manu Vanderveeren writes about building Spott, an AI-native recruitment platform for agencies. Their posts discuss using AI to improve recruiting workflows, growing the business through inbound and outbound sales, and raising funding.

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Ryan Lord

15.6K followers

Ryan Lord is the founder of Saint Lord Media, a street-interview agency that makes unscripted videos of people reacting to products and topics for DTC and retail brands.

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Jeremiah Landi

15.3K followers

Jeremiah Landi writes about hardware product development, robotics, and manufacturing automation, with a focus on how equipment works in real-world settings and how partnerships and infrastructure shape its success.

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Josh Chernikoff

15.3K followers

Josh Chernikoff shares sales advice and coaching for education founders selling to schools. The guidance focuses on making credibility visible, agreeing on concrete next steps with districts, and showing ongoing value after a sale.

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Mutembei Kariuki

15.1K followers

Mutembei Kariuki builds AI for small-business owners in Kenya through Auni.ai, a Fastagger product described as developed with the M-PESA Business App. Their posts also cover physical AI, manufacturing, and AI infrastructure.

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Jake Huber

15.1K followers

Jake Huber provides recruiting support for early-stage companies, including embedded recruiting that can scale with a hiring sprint. Huber's posts help founders decide whether they need sourcing, full recruiting support, or a full-time recruiter.

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Lars Ling

15K followers

Lars Ling promotes connections between Vaasa’s energy and startup ecosystem and Silicon Valley, including events focused on energy AI, clean technology, investment and international partnerships.

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Connor Gross

14.3K followers

Connor Gross shares hiring advice and DTC brand stories on LinkedIn. Gross's posts cover recruiting for consumer brands, emerging roles in ecommerce and social commerce, and how brands grow through choices such as in-house manufacturing.

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Jeremy David Evans

13.4K followers

Jeremy David Evans works on revenue operations and sales systems, sharing ideas about using data, CRM follow-up, and targeted outreach to improve business decisions and conversions.

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Paul David

13.2K followers

Paul David works on growth strategy for technology startups and charities through Literal Humans, a B Corp he describes as focused on helping mission-led organizations grow. His posts discuss startup growth, fintech, and sustainable technology.

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Toqeer Sajid

12.8K followers

Toqeer Sajid writes about helping start-ups build efficient operations, using scalable processes and thoughtful automation to reduce wasted work and support growth.

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MB Sam

12.6K followers

MB Sam writes about building repeatable B2B sales systems for AWS and other ecosystem partner firms, including how founders can document their sales approach and prepare a first sales leader to take it over.

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Benjamin Cohen

12.6K followers

Benjamin Cohen is the CEO of Proton, which builds AI software for distributors. His posts discuss applying AI to distribution work, including sales training, business data, and customer relationships.

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Sahil Mittal

12.6K followers

Sahil Mittal shares advice and examples about using customer-created video and user-generated content to build trust and improve ecommerce product pages. Mittal's posts also discuss Idukki, a platform for collecting and displaying customer content.

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Greg Coticchia

12.4K followers

Greg Coticchia writes and advises on product management, helping companies connect product decisions to customer problems and market needs.

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Ghazi Benothman

12.2K followers

Ghazi Benothman backs first-time Tunisian deep-tech founders and shares analysis of AI use in Tunisia and the Middle East. The posts also highlight roles at portfolio startups and a community for builders.

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Kelly Anne Parker

12.1K followers

Kelly Anne Parker advises women founders on building and growing businesses, with a focus on practical operations, e-commerce, and preparing a company for a possible sale. Through Launch Grow Exit, Parker offers one-to-one advice and shares resources for founders working through issues such as supplier lead times, inventory, and business systems.

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Rohit Kokane

12.1K followers

Rohit Kokane creates business and finance content in Marathi about SMEs, business models, growth, marketing, sales and personal finance. He also works on podcasts, including consulting and post-production, and says he is developing a business and finance podcast.

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Andrew Hutton

11.6K followers

Andrew Hutton helps early-stage startups build repeatable go-to-market systems, especially outbound sales. Through Market Fit, he works on prospecting, lead-list quality, and turning customer signals into outreach and pipeline.

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Bar Bruhis

11.5K followers

Bar Bruhis is the founder of Boostcous, a food business making protein-packed couscous. The posts describe building its sales across direct-to-consumer, Amazon, and retail, and personally testing marketing, website, customer-support, and fulfillment work.

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An Nayal

11.4K followers

An Nayal works on mobile app growth, sharing ideas about user retention, behavioral design, and building repeatable systems for user acquisition and organic distribution.

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Onifade-Esan Modupeola Bolaji is a social media manager, digital marketer, and founder of Internflare. The LinkedIn posts describe Onifade-Esan's work teaching client acquisition, personal branding, and relationship-building on LinkedIn.

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Izzy Rosenzweig

10.5K followers

Izzy Rosenzweig is an ecommerce founder who started Browze and later pivoted to Portless, a company that helps brands use a direct supply chain model.

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Manni Sidhu

10.5K followers

Manni Sidhu is an entrepreneur working across hospitality and technology. Sidhu is building Modoru, an RFID-powered inventory system designed to help catering businesses track equipment and other reusable items as they move between locations and events.

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Alex Rossman

10.4K followers

Alex Rossman works in marketing at Rossman Media, advising businesses on growth and discussing social commerce, paid channels, and marketing strategy.

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Haven Allen

10.2K followers

Haven Allen works with hardtech founders on commercializing physical technologies, focusing on the infrastructure, networks, and financing needed to build and scale manufacturing businesses. Their posts also cover U.S. reindustrialization and mHUB’s role in supporting hardtech companies.

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Hannon Brett

10K followers

Hannon Brett shares practical advice on B2B marketing, with a focus on improving live-event pipeline and ROI, building AI-supported go-to-market systems, and choosing marketing priorities for early-stage startups.

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Jill Simonds

9.3K followers

Jill Simonds writes about fractional executive leadership and how growing businesses can build stronger finance, sales, and operating systems. Her posts focus on making performance less dependent on founders’ personal intervention and more predictable through clear ownership, processes, and better decisions.

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David Bush

9.3K followers

David Bush helps business owners build repeatable business development systems that connect prospecting, outreach, follow-up, content, CRM, automation and human support.

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James Morris-Manuel

9.3K followers

James Morris-Manuel is a construction technology founder building Prolo, an AI-powered procurement service that helps contractors source materials, compare suppliers, manage quotes and paperwork, and access flexible credit. Their work also covers scaling technology for the built environment and the commercial pressures facing property development.

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Manlio Carrelli

9.3K followers

Manlio Carrelli shares analysis of AI companies, enterprise technology, and market shifts, including how businesses can use predictive intelligence to identify potential customers, partners, and acquisition targets.

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Dr. Noah St John

9.2K followers

Dr. Noah St John is a performance coach for founders and senior operators. His work focuses on helping business owners identify bottlenecks, build better operating structure, and improve how teams adopt tools and follow up with leads.

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Anish Modi

9K followers

Anish Modi writes about practical AI adoption for Indian small businesses, explaining how to identify repetitive work and build focused tools around real business needs. Their posts also describe building an automated outbound system.

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Antoinette Chappell helps founders and senior leaders turn their expertise into clear, strategic thought leadership. Chappell's work includes shaping individual leaders’ positioning and helping leadership teams communicate a shared direction in their own distinct voices.

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Cynthia Osato

8.9K followers

Cynthia Osato shares hiring advice for startup founders, especially on when and how to hire for AI work. The posts reviewed also describe a dedicated hiring pod for early-stage companies.

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Jeff Pugel

8.8K followers

Jeff Pugel writes about positioning and growth for marketing agencies, with a focus on choosing a clear ideal client, communicating value, and building systems that let an agency grow.

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Ed Hallen

8.7K followers

Ed Hallen co-founded Klaviyo, a company that builds marketing and customer relationship software for consumer brands. Public writing covers omnichannel marketing, customer data and the choices involved in building a startup.

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Tom Davies

8.7K followers

Tom Davies writes about practical startup marketing and is building Brandingo, a tool for measuring brand growth. Davies's work draws on experience launching and growing products at Monzo and Wise and leading marketing at Yonder.

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Karl Sakas

8.3K followers

Karl Sakas advises agency owners on growth, leadership, operations, and succession. Sakas's work includes practical frameworks for improving lead generation, building more resilient operations, and assessing AI adoption.

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Brett Butler

7.9K followers

Brett Butler is building HireSphere AI, a recruiting and talent-intelligence business focused on improving hiring across the full employee lifecycle, from defining a role and selecting candidates to onboarding, training, and retention.

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Stu Jolley

7.5K followers

Stu Jolley is a founder of Stories & Ink, a tattoo aftercare and skincare brand. The founder writes about building the business, including its move into US retail, product development, and the choices involved in scaling a small consumer brand.

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Luke Peters

7.5K followers

Luke Peters hosts The Eight-Figure Product CEO, a podcast about building and running product businesses. They also share practical guidance for CEOs on budgeting, business turnarounds, tariffs, and preparing a company for sale.

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Paul Drecksler

7.4K followers

Paul Drecksler writes about e-commerce and fintech, including weekly roundups of company deals and commentary on issues affecting online sellers.

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Jade van Pelt

7.2K followers

Jade van Pelt is a marketing strategist focused on helping direct-to-consumer brands improve organic and paid content. Their posts explain how to build brand awareness, make founder-led content more distinctive, and adapt creative to the different goals of ads and organic channels.

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Sam Alba

7K followers

Sam Alba builds Mendral, an AI-native DevOps platform that uses agents to automate platform-engineering work, including CI maintenance and supply-chain security reviews.

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Jared Gibson

7K followers

Jared Gibson helps companies turn executives’ and employees’ expertise into content, especially for LinkedIn and video. Gibson’s posts describe a practical approach: draw ideas from everyday work, help people share them consistently, and use those voices to reach buyers.

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Shubham Goel

6.8K followers

Shubham Goel is a company builder who co-founded Affinity, a CRM company, and says they are now building a new AI company. Goel also shares lessons from conversations with CIOs about enterprise AI adoption, governance, and technology change.

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Fareha Ali

6.5K followers

Fareha Ali is a computer science student and technology builder working on AI and automation ventures, including Somar360, an assistive-technology project for deaf and hard-of-hearing people, and Kaliber Freight. Ali's posts connect AI systems work with firsthand experience in freight and logistics.

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Jamal Hirani

6.4K followers

Jamal Hirani shares practical analysis of Meta and Google advertising, including how to spot faulty conversion tracking and other account problems that can distort campaign performance.

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Aiman Asalm

6.3K followers

Aiman Asalm develops founder-led content for businesses. The posts describe research-led content strategy and writing: learning a client's market, finding ideas that fit their expertise, and turning existing material and founder input into posts that sound like the founder.

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Bryan Pocock

6.3K followers

Bryan Pocock is a COO and CFO who writes about helping growing businesses improve operations and financial leadership, including through fractional executive roles.

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Michael Weidinger

6.2K followers

Michael Weidinger works in customer success and enterprise account management, helping SaaS customers adopt products, realize value, and address retention risks.

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Cosmin Pirvu

6.2K followers

Cosmin Pirvu shares data-led stories about European companies’ cross-border activity through their work at Veridion and facilitates Startup Weekend events in Romania and elsewhere in the region.

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Priya Ravindra

6.2K followers

Priya Ravindra is the founder of Punar, an ethical brand whose work includes artisan-made gifts and textiles. Ravindra’s posts focus on fair sourcing, artisan partnerships, cultural heritage in fashion, and collaboration between India and Australia.

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Stakh Vozniak

6.1K followers

Stakh Vozniak writes and speaks about building Cargofy, a company using AI agents to run logistics work such as freight tenders, bids, and shipment tracking. Vozniak also discusses how to price AI workers for logistics businesses.

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Reetu Gupta

6.1K followers

Reetu Gupta hosts Green Shoots & Big Shifts, interviewing people working on sustainability, clean energy, and practical climate solutions.

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Korbinian Kuusisto

6K followers

Korbinian Kuusisto makes videos testing how iPhones and machine-vision sensors can inspect products on manufacturing lines, including detecting defects and checking labels. Kuusisto also writes about Berlin’s startup scene and local politics.

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Mitchell Omer

5.8K followers

Mitchell Omer writes about B2B go-to-market and revenue strategy, including customer success, sales and retention, niche markets, and privacy services for growing businesses. Their posts also cover AI and building a marketing function at Trust Keith.

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Karl J. Jacobi

5.8K followers

Karl J. Jacobi hosts The Grit Factor Podcast, interviewing entrepreneurs about setbacks, resilience, identity, and faith. Jacobi's LinkedIn posts highlight guests’ personal stories and the lessons they draw from them.

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Beth Thorson

5.7K followers

Beth Thorson works on go-to-market strategy and partnerships in logistics and supply chain. Beth founded Relentless Growth Collective to help founders build scalable, team-led growth, and says Beth has joined Auger as VP of Strategic Partnerships.

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Nathan Smith

5.6K followers

Nathan Smith is the founder of Arrim, an AI creative system for ecommerce brands. Smith's work focuses on using AI to produce ad concepts and building better systems to test which creative ideas perform.

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Jess Ferretti

5.3K followers

Jess Ferretti is a fractional VP of Sales who helps digital health founders build the sales systems and processes their teams need to grow.

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Tian Lan

5K followers

Tian Lan builds Care Mojo, a wearable and edge-AI system intended to help families and home-care agencies monitor older adults’ safety, routines, and changing care needs at home. Tian Lan has also posted about AI recruiting and hiring.

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Dan Greenwald

4.9K followers

Dan Greenwald works with education-technology startups through GESAwards, connecting founders and helping surface companies working on education challenges across markets. His posts also discuss education innovation, including AI in higher education.

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Alex Polamero

4.8K followers

Alex Polamero works on helping professional services firms scale through better business systems. Their LinkedIn posts focus on CRM and sales automation, coordinating sales and marketing, reducing manual work, and improving margins.

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Gabriel Wolff

4.7K followers

Gabriel Wolff works in e-commerce and direct-to-consumer marketing. Wolff's posts discuss building integrated marketing teams and growing sales through TikTok Shop and affiliate creators.

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Alex Wittenberg

4.5K followers

Alex Wittenberg writes about finance operations, financial modeling, and practical uses of AI in finance at airCFO, which manages back-office operations for tech startups.

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Mike Martinussen

4.2K followers

Mike Martinussen is a B2B go-to-market and revenue advisor who helps companies improve sales execution, build scalable sales processes, and strengthen revenue leadership. Their work includes GTM audits and reboots, sales-team coaching, and fractional sales leadership.

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Nix Juban

3.8K followers

Nix Juban is an Intel manufacturing and operational-excellence leader who develops Lean Six Sigma and Kaizen practices, including tools and training that help frontline teams solve problems and improve their work.

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Alex Beyer

3.8K followers

Alex Beyer is a cofounder of Sourcerie, a platform that automates consumer research and product testing for Shopify brands.

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Michael Kithcart Favor teaches founders of professional services firms how to build revenue systems and sell without relying on pressure tactics. Their posts describe a focused offer, a repeatable approach to sales, and leading client decisions.

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Antoinette Banks

3.5K followers

Antoinette Banks is the CEO of Expert IEP, a company building technology to help families navigate special education. She describes her approach as family-centered: families shape the AI and the technology’s purpose.

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Anuj Rastogi

3.5K followers

Anuj Rastogi works with the BackStretch team on hiring and building teams for small and medium-sized businesses. The posts focus on how growing businesses create jobs, how people help companies succeed, and climate and cleantech innovation.

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Chaim Tesser

3.5K followers

Chaim Tesser advises applied behavior analysis (ABA) agency operators on improving intake and operations, including planning CRM systems before they are built.

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Bill Fotsch

3.4K followers

Bill Fotsch writes and speaks about economic engagement: connecting employees’ work and rewards to business results. Fotsch’s posts apply this approach to boutique consulting firms, where they argue it can help reduce founder dependency and support growth.

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Evgeniia Volkova

3.3K followers

Evgeniia Volkova is building Referrio, a hiring-tech startup focused on helping companies find candidates through referrals. Volkova's posts discuss referral programs, recruiting tools, and making hiring more humane for candidates.

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Penny Hopkinson

3.3K followers

Penny Hopkinson develops operations manuals and related tools to help franchisors and multi-site businesses capture know-how, support consistent work across locations, and reduce reliance on a single person for answers.

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Brian Lofrumento

3.2K followers

Brian Lofrumento is an entrepreneur and host of the Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur Podcast. They share practical lessons from conversations with founders and other guests, often focusing on business growth, team-building, systems, and AI.

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Kirill Sirenko

3.2K followers

Kirill Sirenko writes about doing business in Brazil, with a focus on retail, market entry, supply chains, and the role of technology in business operations.

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Eric Eskey

3.2K followers

Eric Eskey writes about startup growth, AI and software businesses, and building Arizona’s innovation ecosystem. Eskey’s posts draw practical lessons from founder and industry conversations, including how to test ideas with customers, find durable markets, and scale companies.

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Kelsey Waters

2.9K followers

Kelsey Waters works on Openlane, a platform that helps growing companies build security and compliance programs around their needs. Their posts discuss helping founders decide when to start compliance work and building customer and partner relationships.

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Clay Lundquist

2.9K followers

Clay Lundquist shares practical bookkeeping and financial guidance for small-business founders, including cleaning up messy books, understanding business finances, and managing cash flow.

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La Tonya Roberts

2.8K followers

La Tonya Roberts helps founders build business operations that can grow without depending on the founder to manage every task. Roberts's posts focus on repeatable processes, team accountability, and identifying where work gets stuck as a business scales.

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Jeronimo Canale

2.8K followers

Jeronimo Canale works with consumer brands on ecommerce marketing and creative production. Canale's posts focus on improving ad offers, understanding competitors, and using virtual product visuals to make campaign assets faster to produce.

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Alok Kumar Singh

2.7K followers

Alok Kumar Singh writes about product management and AI, with a focus on finding customer problems, building and reviewing products, and turning AI capabilities into useful business outcomes.

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Michael Seeley

2.6K followers

Michael Seeley works on venture development through Liminal Group, helping founders and organizations that support entrepreneurs turn early ideas into more developed, investable businesses. His work includes programs for footwear innovators and partnerships that add specialist expertise around existing startup-support services.

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Jeremy Shapiro

2.5K followers

Jeremy Shapiro hosts Your Business Growth Podcast, where Shapiro interviews business owners about growth, marketing, business models and leadership. Shapiro is also the author of Your Business Growth Playbook.

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Caroline L.

2.4K followers

Founder of Simply Glow, a collagen brand, and a nurse with 20 years’ experience. Caroline shares her experience of developing the product and building the business while learning the manufacturing and online retail side from scratch.

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Lennox Powell

2.4K followers

Lennox Powell is a marketer who shares practical lessons on startup growth, marketing strategy, and AI tools. Their posts include plain-language explanations of marketing terms, campaign analysis, and examples of tools they have built.

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Curtis Scott

2.3K followers

Curtis Scott shares business and leadership insights for small and midsize business leaders, including posts about AI, tariffs, hiring, and developing stronger leaders.

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Joshua Love

2.1K followers

Joshua Love is a co-founder of Zite AI, where they build AI software for healthcare administration, including forecasting patient volumes to help health systems plan care sites, budgets, and staffing.

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Mike Lipowski

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Mike Lipowski is a fitness business owner who built PURE PHYSIQUE around short, trainer-led strength workouts for busy adults. Lipowski writes about designing a fitness franchise and the operational changes behind growing the business.

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Rob Buckingham

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Rob Buckingham is building Per4mer, an AI coaching service for technical founders who sell to B2B customers. Buckingham's posts focus on sales discovery, qualifying deals, and preparing founders for calls.

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Jackie Wu

947 followers

Jackie Wu is a speaker and business growth strategist who teaches fast deal-closing and interview skills. Their posts also describe work supporting veterans and military families with career transitions.

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Clive William Kreft

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Clive William Kreft writes about preparing founder-led SaaS, MSP, and agency businesses for a sale, including buyer fit, recurring-revenue quality, employee retention, confidentiality, and due diligence. Kreft says they moved from real-estate private-capital brokering into business acquisition and deal brokering.

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Luiz Tessarolli

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Luiz Tessarolli is a Brazil-based founder and engineer building Recrutador, a hiring tool designed to help interviewers evaluate candidates against clear criteria and evidence rather than impressions.

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Md. Jony Hassain

639 followers

Md. Jony Hassain shares guidance on web application security and penetration testing, with a focus on risks to SaaS, startup, and e-commerce businesses.

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Ronna Belinky

528 followers

Ronna Belinky runs Workflows by Ronna and helps small business owners and solopreneurs improve their workflows, including by making time for the work of running their businesses.

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Parker Worth runs a B2B lead-generation agency that uses cold email to help businesses find prospects and book sales calls. Their posts also cover email marketing tools and systems for running marketing work.

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Alex Chan is a Singapore-based marketer associated with Omni Digital. The posts focus on paid advertising and creative strategy, including testing ads, finding qualified leads, and helping businesses grow.

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Yuval Passov writes about applying AI at work, adapting your career, and building resilient habits. Passov's newsletter is aimed at founders and people working in technology; Passov draws on examples from their work at Google and startup and gaming communities.

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Cory Cachola helps consultants turn their distinctive ideas into a clear, repeatable storytelling system. They also write about how AI is changing B2B strategy, business operations, and the value of marketing.

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Christopher Lyle writes about patent strategy and management, including how startups can align patents with revenue and product plans, navigate patent prosecution, and govern AI use in legal and IP work.

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Ali Mirza shares practical ways to use AI tools, build automations, and turn AI services into business ideas. Their LinkedIn posts also cover AI product news and business stories.

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Lucienne Lacle works on B2B marketing on LinkedIn, helping companies use founder-led content and employee branding to build trust and reach potential buyers. Their posts also draw on their experience in product management and fintech, and they share advice on career development and turning skills into services.

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Rachel Healy helps consulting firms build sales and business-development capability across their teams, with a focus on reducing reliance on founders, growing client accounts and improving pricing.

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Sean W. is a founder and business adviser who shares practical lessons on pricing, e-commerce operations, and building a sales pipeline through LinkedIn content. Sean also builds SparkVox, a tool for turning calls into LinkedIn content and managing the workflow through CRM follow-up.

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Mel Goodman is the founder of WorkMom Collective, which helps ambitious mothers make career decisions that fit their lives. Goodman draws on experience in tech sales leadership and their own transition from corporate work to entrepreneurship.

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Zelle Jeremias Herbolario writes about improving marketing-agency operations: connecting sales, client management, and delivery; clarifying handoffs and information ownership; and reducing reliance on founders to keep work moving. The posts also introduce ZelleClaw, an AI assistant for agency workflows.

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Plamen Peev writes about Salesforce and CRM, and how digital tools such as AI can help businesses and renewable-energy projects work better.

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Saleem Ahmad writes about Austin’s startup ecosystem and organizes founder events, including meetups for founders seeking technical co-founders. Their posts also criticize how startup institutions allocate support and engage with defense and government work.

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Ryan To is a creator and marketer who teaches companies how to grow through social content. Their work focuses on B2B marketing, short-form content, and using creator-led campaigns to reach customers.

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Karen Romine writes business-history stories that draw strategic lessons for founders. The LinkedIn posts connect cases such as FedEx, Motown, IKEA and Sony to decisions about building companies.

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Natalie Gregorian runs an operations business that helps companies build the processes, project-management systems, and teams needed to deliver client work without relying on the founder for every decision. Natalie's posts discuss ClickUp, delegation, hiring operations leaders, and preparing a business to keep running during extended leave.

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Ronit Thakur publishes LinkedIn commentary analyzing Indian consumer brands, marketing and business growth, often comparing how companies build awareness, distribution and profitability.

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Founder of Adbullet, a performance marketing agency. Gopal Verma writes about digital advertising, Indian e-commerce and B2B marketing, including how businesses can measure ad results and plan campaigns.

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Aimee Roberson works on helping growing companies make their revenue operations more consistent. Roberson's approach connects growth strategy, team capabilities, alignment across departments, learning from buyers and the field, and follow-through in execution.

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Kiran Jamdar is the founder of Veque Digital, an agency that helps founders build their personal brands on LinkedIn through human-written content. Jamdar also describes growing the agency through client referrals and specialist teams for different industries.

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Alex Vacca shares and describes B2B go-to-market work at Frontal AI, combining outbound, buyer-focused content, paid ads, AI search visibility and revenue operations to help companies generate pipeline.

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Audrey Geisman runs Balanced, an AI-native accounting firm. Geisman's work focuses on outsourced accounting and helping businesses use financial information to make decisions, while building repeatable workflows that let accountants serve more clients.

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Harshavardhan Chhallani shares business-growth advice through CoachTech, focusing on systems for scaling small and midsize businesses. Chhallani's posts cover sales processes, CRM and workflow automation, and employee development.

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Roy Ripper works on recruitment-business growth, sharing lessons on search, revenue forecasting, and building systems that make a business less dependent on its founder.

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Daniel Roth interviews business leaders for LinkedIn’s This is Working, discussing leadership, careers, and how companies respond to change, including AI adoption.

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Luke Moriarty is the founder of Cool Hog, a UK snack business selling through ecommerce, TikTok Shop and wholesale. They share the work of building the brand and discuss founder-led marketing and ecommerce growth.

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Dawoud Nasraty works with founders and business owners on financial visibility, cash flow, accounting, and CFO insights through Ascent Financial Consulting. Nasraty's LinkedIn posts also discuss how AI is changing startup funding and why financial discipline matters as companies grow.

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Hamish McKay is a co-founder of Order Editing, a Shopify app for order editing, checkout and post-purchase upsells, and customer retention.

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Angela Hodgson works with manufacturing and engineering businesses on leadership and growth. Her work includes helping senior teams identify barriers to performance, strengthen leadership, and agree practical improvement priorities.

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Zeeshan Mukhtar works on Shopify store design and development, ecommerce management, social media marketing, and Meta and TikTok ads through ZEMAS Tech. Mukhtar's posts focus on making online stores more trustworthy and turning visits and attention into customers.

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Alfie Marsh is an entrepreneur who presents Station as an AI agent that helps non-technical teams carry out work across apps, such as researching leads, preparing meetings, and drafting outreach.

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Ayelet Noff shares advice on agency growth and storytelling and discusses technology PR, media relations, and how earned media can help brands appear in AI-generated answers. Her posts identify SlicedBrand as a PR and marketing agency focused on technology.

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Jared Parker is a growth marketer and co-founder of Watt, a company that turns difficult-to-use data into information usable by AI. He writes about startup growth, customer research, and advertising creative.

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Jason M. Lemkin is a B2B software founder and investor who hosts 20VC and writes about startup leadership, sales, pricing, growth, acquisitions and AI.

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Joseph McGrail works on B2B sales and go-to-market strategy. His posts focus on helping startups identify likely buyers, test sales messaging with prospects, and use sales-process data to decide what to improve.

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Katie Soper shares perspectives on cybersecurity and hosts Cyber Confersations, a series of conversations with cybersecurity founders, executives and investors.

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Mark Roberge writes, speaks, and invests in companies building and scaling go-to-market and sales teams, with a focus on how AI is changing that work. His posts discuss his experience building HubSpot’s CRM and his work with founders through Stage 2 Capital.

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Mark Zides works as a fractional CRO with founders and sales teams, focusing on building repeatable sales processes, improving pipeline reviews, and helping companies move beyond founder-dependent selling.

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Nicolas Sauvage is a deep-tech investor at TDK Ventures. His writing focuses on how startups can turn industrial partnerships, technical validation, and early market access into businesses that can scale without losing independence.

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Richard Hurtley works with consumer brands on sales and growth. He is Commercial Director at Coral Eyewear, advises retailers on practical uses of AI through Panther8, and mentors consumer-brand founders. He has also founded businesses, including Rampant Sporting.

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