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Hola, I am the Chief Sumo at Sumo.com and AppSumo.com, where we help entrepreneurs kick more ass. Before that I was a cubicle monkey at Intel, #30 at Facebook and #4 at Mint. These are my stories on marketing, starting a business, personal improvement and productivity tips.

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Amp It Up Book Review (My Key Takeaways)

There’s a lot of good books on starting a business… But not a ton on growing or scaling. Amp it Up by Frank Slootman is a great one. Frank doesn’t start companies—he grows them. He took over the Snowflake data management company when it was worth $4 billion and now, after leading it into the...

Talking God, Country, Cycling and Remote work with Tropical MBA

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify In today’s episode, I talk to Dan Andrews and Ian Schoen of Tropical MBA. Now, these guys started working together 15 years ago making parts for cat furniture and valet stands, and now they run Tropical MBA—a community of events and podcasts for location-independent entrepreneurs. They started podcasting before...

A Short Post on Upleveling Your Marketing

There’s a lot of marketing tips out there—and some of them work. But sometimes, they’re just noise. I’ve spent DECADES of my life marketing different products and businesses, and these are 4 key marketing tips that work pretty universally across them all. If you can do these 4 things really well, your business will be...

The Art of Being (w/ Joe Hudson)

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify In today’s episode, I talk to Joe Hudson, he runs one of my favorite podcasts - Art of Accomplishment (my 2nd fav after this show!). When I was chatting with Joe in this episode, I talked about my anxiety of boredom, my life of “should”, and these crazy critical...