first principles

Company playbooks

Learn from the companies.

What they did → real examples → why it matters → how to apply it → a template → original sources.

01 / Content & trust

Harness

Content that helps a buyer say yes

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02 / Finding buyers

Rippling

Create distribution before hiring for scale

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03 / Content & trust

PostHog

Write for developers, not search engines

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04 / Content & trust

Supabase

Make a product release worth talking about

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05 / Finding buyers

Merge

Founder-led sales is market research

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06 / Adoption & expansion

Datadog

Land one workload, then earn the next

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07 / Adoption & expansion

Linear

Win a narrow group of people first

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08 / Adoption & expansion

Tailscale

Give one developer a reason to bring the team

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09 / Content & trust

incident.io

Teach the job before you pitch the tool

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10 / Adoption & expansion

Grafana Labs

Be useful in the ecosystem before you ask to replace it

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