President @hexclad - Recovering Tech Investment Banker and M&A Lawyer - building a best in class consumer brand. Ecom Grandpa on @9operators podcast.

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Check out the Panzer 5, your senior leader Black Friday checklist: 1.Offers - get them right 2.Creative - ads and website dialed 3.Budgets - set them and be ready to pivot 4.Demand planning - dialed in way ahead of time 5.Ops - ready to ship it all
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Some employees are scared that ai will replace them or devalue their skills If they are spreadsheet masters, and have spent two decades perfecting v lookups, then what are they suppose to do about this new robot that can one shot their workflows The irony is, if they just leaned in and learned ai with the same passion they learned excel, they would be worth 5x to the org They would make more money, they would be future proof, they would get promoted I don’t need anymore people who know spreadsheets I need 50 people who are passionate about agents And the beauty is its brand new. No one has more experience than anyone else Amazing time for the curious and interested!
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Neglecting your health and fitness is dumb and lazy- from 2022-2026 I neglected these things being insanely focused on building Hexclad (and later lowering my handicap). Got my act together 3 months ago, dropped around 7% of my bodyweight and feel amazing at 55. Don't be dumb and lazy.
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You cannot build anything decent in California for under $1000 a square foot.
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After 3 days Oura Ring much better experience for me than Whoop. Mainly because a ring is much easier to deal with than a band.
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Life Update - Broke down and bought an Oura ring today.
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The reports of NYC's death here on X are greatly exaggerated. Think what u want about Mamdani - it remains resilient and awesome. It has always been a messy place - it seems a bit messier but the place was buzzing. Soho packed, Equinox had a barista on the gym floor.
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Windows coming soon!
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Proud to be a partner with these killers, learning, sharing and growing.
People won’t remember what you say, they remember how you made them feel. Building a business is hard. There are so many challenges and most of us don’t know many other people in our local communities who can relate to the obstacles we face every day. I’ve gotten feedback from hundreds of @9operators listeners over the last year. I’ve learned that the podcast meets a need that no on else is addressing. But I also have more clarity than ever about our mission. We exist to provide community and practical help to people in the trenches building companies. Creating something new and valuable in the world is ludicrously hard and lonely. Our insecurity ratchets up the challenge. All of us, myself included, can find ourselves playing the numbers game. Trying to define our value from a number on a dashboard. One of the biggest breakthroughs in my life has been realizing that my identity is not in the size of my company. I’m as driven and ambitious as I’ve ever been, but not because I need my company’s growth to make me feel like I have value. There’s a reason why social media has been proven to reduce our happiness and emotional stability. It activates our worst tendencies and biggest insecurities. It encourages us to embellish the wins and hide the losses. Success porn content like that will always do numbers, but it leaves us feeling more empty and insecure after we consume it. Because even if social media presents a world where everything is always up into the right, no one’s real life works that way. We have made almost 200 episodes of Operators. I’m confident the next 200 will be even better. Because we know the mission that we are chasing AND the pitfalls to avoid.
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Great chat with@jeffreyraider - a real pro and genuinely good dude - also well done @beanstalkHQ
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Cookware mogging with @JasonPanzer at @northbeam conference
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Critical Thinking > Trust the Experts
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Amazing app - If you care about your health you should sign up. Don't go to chatgpt or claude for health ralated information - go here neoroot.ai/
Exciting news - it’s official. Immediate press release announcement: Leading scientists, doctors and a heart attack survivor have built the world's first root cause health AI Neo Root is available worldwide today and free to start. HealthTruth is a global health company built to find the cause of disease rather than manage its symptoms, and it is building three root cause platforms: Neo Root for people, Neo Doc for clinicians and Neo Sport for athletes. Cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra, cardiac surgeon Dr Philip Ovadia, metabolic surgeon Dr Robert Cywes and Prof Tim Noakes, head of science, hold equity as co-founders rather than endorsement fees. The company was founded by Mark Kaplan, who had a cardiac event at 52. Read more healthtruth.ai/press
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LA is slowly dying - this park is down the street from Hexclad HQ - it's sad that we can't have nice things in LA - multiple employees have had their car windows broken around here. We invested in a great working environment for our team (our office). Unfortunately lack of basic law and order makes it much less desirable to be in LA.
NEW: L.A.’s new $82 MILLION park isn’t even open yet, but neighbors are already warning it could become “another MacArthur Park.” Graffiti is already showing up at the 12-acre Sixth Street PARC, while residents fear crime and homeless encampments could follow once the construction fencing comes down.
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Hexclad Senior Team offsite about to start here:
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Last night in Milan @hexclad welcomed Massimo Bottura to our culinary council as lead chef ambassador in Italy. We worked for 3 years to bring on arguably the leading chef on the planet today. It's a testament to the quality of our products and the power of brand. Great work @winer_danny and team.
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One of the most underrated skills in business (and life) is simply making a decision. Gather the facts. Use your judgment. Make the call. Move on. Nothing drives me crazier than people who need to ask 5 questions before making a decision they should just be making themselves.
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You have time for anything you commit to. A friend turned me on to @Hundredhealth back in July. Got my blood work done I didn't like what came up. At 55 you can't get away with what you did in your late 30s. Since then I've treated personal health like it's my job. Weight is down and numbers are getting better.
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And here's my public service announcement - 15lbs overweight is too much. I resisted the GLP drugs for a while but glad I finally caved. I'm eating half of what I used to eat and not losing muscle.
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Being out of shape is also just being lazy. You Have Time for Anything You Commit To.
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