Leadership
What Psychological Safety Actually Means, and Why Leaders Now Measure It
Tanya Brooks · August 19, 2026
Founders
Founders is a profile section about the people who started something and then had to run it. Pieces track the shift from building a product to managing an organization, the point at which a founder hires their first executive, disputes between cofounders, and the exits that follow. Reported, not as told to.
Independents
The size of the independent workforce is a measurement choice, not a fact
Tanya Brooks · August 18, 2026
Founders
Founders aren't diluted at Series A. They're diluted at signing.
The post-money SAFE locks an investor's percentage the day it's signed — here's the arithmetic, the option-pool clause, and the filing deadline founders miss.
Tanya Brooks · August 16, 2026
Founders
Founder burnout finally got studied — and the findings indict the role, not the founders
Research on entrepreneurial mental health finds founders running elevated depression and anxiety rates. The structural fixes are known, unfashionable, and rarely funded.
Tanya Brooks · July 27, 2026
Founders
Every founder's contract has a side-project clause. Almost nobody reads it in time.
The side-project-to-startup path built some of the era's biggest companies — and ended others' equity and careers at the exit. The difference is documented in paragraphs 14 through 19.
Tanya Brooks · July 5, 2026