Friday, 25 September 2026The Weekly Edition · No. 38
Business, money and the people running both.
Twelve weeks, no email, no calls. Founders who take a proper sabbatical describe the first fortnight as withdrawal and the last as clarity.
The companies they come back to are often better run. A founder who can leave for a quarter has, by definition, built a business that can run without them.
Three studios, one question: what happens when you stop billing by the hour and start competing on the work itself?
After a decade of growth at any cost, small-company balance sheets are filling up. The reason is not fear — it’s leverage.
Forget the moonshots. The owners getting real returns started with one boring question: where do we retype things?
