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Every Compound dispatch
Filter the archive by the decisions operators keep making: positioning, systems, leverage, retention, pricing, and margin.
Leverage
5 episodes
Getting more output from the same hours — people, tools, and brand.
Compound
Leverage
046
Why your best hire is a system, not a person
Why your best hire is a system, not a person
Daniel Osei on scaling Meridian to 120 people without hiring your way out of chaos.
Compound
Pricing
043
Margins are a moat: pricing for the long game
Margins are a moat: pricing for the long game
Aisha Bello on why healthy margins buy you the one thing capital can't: patience.
Compound
Systems
041
Delegation is dead. Build decision rights instead.
Delegation is dead. Build decision rights instead.
Daniel Osei on why 'just delegate more' is terrible advice for a growing firm.
Compound
Leverage
040
Field notes: the 5 compounding loops in every durable business
Field notes: the 5 compounding loops in every durable business
A solo episode — Marcus maps the loops that separate businesses that last from businesses that spike.
Compound
Leverage
038
Raising money without renting your strategy
Raising money without renting your strategy
Aisha Bello on taking capital without handing over the steering wheel.