Founder's Journal

Today, I’ll be talking about Amazon Web Services, an oft-forgotten but massive money-making machine living inside of Amazon.

Today, I’m talking about Jeff Bezos’ successor as CEO of Amazon and the lessons we can learn from his 24-year ascent at the giant tech company.

Today, I celebrate the 50th birthday of Elon Musk by breaking the second powerful mental model that he uses to run his businesses: First Principles Thinking

Today, I celebrate the 50th birthday of Elon Musk by breaking down a powerful mental model he uses to build his businesses: Sum Product Thinking

Today, I talk about my process for deciding to quit my cushy job in Finance for the uncertainty of building a media business full-time

Today, I talk about why following your passion is bad, anxiety-provoking advice & how thinking about the concept of "passion" differently can open you to greater freedom and success.

Today I ask Morning Brew CEO Austin Rief about his greatest joy, biggest challenge and worst screw-up while we were building the Brew.

Today, I talk about the power of switching costs and how companies like Apple, Twitter, and Slack create long-term advantages through them.

Past episodes where we covered Helmer’s first two powers:

Economies of Scale https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/winning-with-scale/id1509276485?i=1000515105956

Network Effects https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/network-effects/id1509276485?i=1000516069108

Today I talk about 6 of the steps I've learned over thousands of meetings. How, when, and why you should call them.

Today I talk about 4 timeless lessons from Amazon’s 1997 letter to shareholders that established the principles for building an empire.