Kyle Harrison
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The architecture of organizational excellence
How companies are built as enduring organizations — including organizational structure, employee incentives, cultural norms, and operational systems. Extends beyond conventional startups to innovation institutions (Bell Labs, Disney's Imagineers, IBM's Wild Ducks, Edison's Muckers) and alternative ownership/incentive models. The question is always: what makes an organization capable of sustained excellence?
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Recent Essays
Venture Capital Doesn't Exist Mar 2026
What we call 'venture capital' is actually four different things — seed investing, venture classic, supercharged growth,...
Hijacking The Huckster's Hypebook Mar 2026
Dissecting 300 years of fundraising fraud to reverse-engineer a playbook for founders building real things — from Gregor...
Becoming a Cult Leader Jan 2026
Make Me Believe You...
Key Books
The Man Who Broke Capitalism
The Idea Factory
Poor Charlie's Almanack
How Will You Measure Your Life?
The Innovator's Dilemma
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I've been focused on getting Buffer through this period as unscathed as possible. One debt I believe is building in companies right now is burnout. To lessen that impact at Buffer, we'll try a 4-day workweek (at full pay) for May.
One of the most challenging exercises for early stage companies is defining your initial GTM strategy. Shares his playbook as the first Head of Sales & Customer Success at Typeform and Notion.