Off Balance #25

👋🏾 Hi friends!

Well it’s been quite some time since we last caught up so firstly, I hope you had a great end to 2023 and that 2024 is off to a great start for you.

After a bit of down time in Italy, I’ve been back building for the last few weeks, catching up on all the bits and pieces that got left as pending at the back end of the last year and pushing forward to push towards doubling the business this year.

As part of all of this, I’ve also spent some time thinking about where I’m prioritising time and where I should be focussing to deliver on the ambitious plans I have for the year so there are going to be a few changes to the way this newsletter is going to work moving forward.

The first, and most major change will be in the cadence of the newsletter. I will be dropping down from weekly to fortnightly. As much as I love writing, the amount of time it requires to put together a truly valuable newsletter is quite considerable which leads me to the second change…

I’ll be condensing the newsletter so that it is more digestible and will be much more driven by what I am seeing in the startup market in general rather than specific, detailed essays around tech, startups, venture capital and finance.

But, nil desperandum!

For those of you that are still looking for a bit more of that detailed view of all the things I’ve learned from the last couple of decades as founder, CFO and CEO, sign up for early access to Off Balance - The Book and feel free to share with anyone else you think might enjoy it 😄.

I’m a couple of chapters in and exploring all 100 of the lessons I posted that got 1m views, thousands of likes and hundreds of comments and shares online - and that was just a list!

Now let’s get down to business…

In this weeks Off Balance, I’ll be chatting about:

🎙️ Adam Liska on Nothing Ventured
💸 Fundraising in 2024

In this week’s Nothing Ventured, I spoke to Adam Liska, founder of Glyphic, a venture backed startup building an AI Co-Pilot for Revenue Ops. Adam comes from a deep background in AI from Facebook to Spotify to Google Deepmind with a few degrees and a PhD along the way!

As always, our Primer episode gives you a bit of background on how he got to where he is today, as well as where he’s going.

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Now let’s get into it.