Who is Nnamdi?

Hiring freezes matter more than layoffs

COVID put software companies on a permanently lower growth trajectory.

Exploring the vast "dark matter" of the software universe

A frothy funding environment means more competition for talent. Funding gets easier; hiring gets harder.

Preferred equity exists in a constant state of quantum superposition. It's neither equity nor debt, until it is.

ACV isn't as useful a concept as people think. We need a different SaaS monetization metric.

Companies don't catch up to their valuations; their valuations catch up to them.

In startup land, we talk way too much about relative growth. We'd do better to ground our thinking in absolute growth.

Magic number is a bad metric. Sales and marketing drives much less revenue than this not-so-magical number implies