Daniel G Bright

Your rebrand isn't going to fix your pipeline.

I've sat in the kickoff call where a founder says it out loud: "Our brand doesn't match the product anymore, and I think that's why deals are stalling."

Sometimes it's true. Most of the time, the brand is the one thing they can...

I'm judging the Omma by Spline hackathon!

Not gonna lie, the stuff that'll get my attention is pretty simple and I've seen quite a few SUPER cool ones as of now. One thing I'll say is build the thing you'd actually want to send to a friend, or use on a project, that's almost...

Six weeks before their $40M raise, a fintech founder sent me his homepage and asked, "is this the problem?" It was The hero still said "the easiest way to manage payments." Easiest. For treasury teams moving $2 billion a year. Companies grow up quietly. The product gets...

An AI company just paid me to do something their product does for free.

Their platform generates logos, brand kits, and marketing copy from a text prompt. That's literally what they sell and they hired humans anyway.

If you're a founder in 2026 and you don't understand why, you're...