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Scale & Strategy together with Belay This is Scale & Strategy, the newsletter delivering your daily business nutrients. Here’s what we got for you today: Our 6 Must-Reads for Hiring Tactics That Actually Break the Mold Hiring at early-stage startups is not getting easier. If anything, it’s getting noisier. There’s no shortage of advice, frameworks, or hot takes, but very little of it survives contact with reality. What founders and first-time managers need aren’t platitudes. They need tactics...

Scale & Strategy together with ZeroBounce This is Scale & Strategy, the newsletter that catches you up like a blue shell in Mario Cart. Here’re the quick highlights from the week: How AI really weighs your links AI’s impact on jobs is getting more complicated How AI really weighs your links Backlinks have always been SEO currency. But now that AI models like ChatGPT and Gemini are shaping how information gets surfaced, the link economy is shifting. Not disappearing. Shifting. A recent...

Scale & Strategy together with Belay This is Scale & Strategy, the newsletter delivering your daily business nutrients. Here’s what we got for you today: 20 Underrated Hiring Traits That Actually Predict Performance And 50+ Questions That Reveal Them Hiring feels like speed dating with higher stakes. The market’s hot, competition’s ruthless, and every “we’re hiring” post sounds like the same LinkedIn karaoke. Everyone claims they want “high-performers,” “mission-driven people,” and “team...

Scale And Strategy together with Awin This is Scale And Strategy, the daily newsletter that’s like a BizOps piñata - whack it open and savor the sweet, sweet pieces of knowledge. Here’s what we got for you today: OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 is very good at spreadsheets Robots have a data problem OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 is very good at spreadsheets OpenAI rolled out an upgraded version of ChatGPT after a messy week that saw the company declare a “code red” in response to recent gains by Google’s Gemini models....

Scale & Strategy together with Belay This is Scale & Strategy, the heart rate monitor of business newsletters (we help you check the market’s pulse). Here’s what we got for you today: Why Now Is the Right Time to Reinvent Your Hiring Process Hiring might be slowing down, speeding up, or pausing depending on the week’s economic mood swing. Either way, it’s still the perfect moment to rethink how you hire. When you’re not scrambling to fill seats, you finally have the breathing room to step...

Scale & Strategy together with ZeroBounce This is Scale & Strategy, the newsletter that catches you up like a blue shell in Mario Cart. Here’re the quick highlights from the week: What bubble? AI valuations keep ripping upward Google vs. Microsoft Performance Max: What’s actually the same—and what isn’t What bubble? AI valuations keep ripping upward Unconventional AI, a two-month-old startup founded by Databricks’ former head of AI, just pulled in $475 million at a $4.5 billion valuation. The...

Scale And Strategy together with Turing This is Scale And Strategy, the newsletter designed to make you the smartest person at the water cooler. Here’s what we got for you today: A single Meta ad is hogging your entire budget? Here’s how to deal with it. Trump moves to wipe out state-level AI rules A single Meta ad is hogging your entire budget? Here’s how to deal with it. Meta sometimes decides one ad is the chosen one and starves the rest. Annoying, but not unusual. Jon Loomer broke down...

Scale & Strategy This is Scale & Strategy, the newsletter that allows you to keep up-to-date with business, without staying glued to your Twitter feed. Here’s what we got for you today: AGI might have an efficiency problem NYT’s crusade against AI has a new target AGI might have an efficiency problem Nat Rubio-Licht: What do you think people get wrong about AGI? Puri: Calling it “artificial intelligence” was already a branding disaster, and then we made it worse by adding “general.” Those...

Scale & Strategy together with Belay This is Scale And Strategy, the daily newsletter that’s like a BizOps piñata - whack it open and savor the sweet, sweet pieces of knowledge. Here’s what we got for you today: 20 Underrated Qualities to Look for in Candidates And 50+ Questions to Surface Them Most teams say they want “high performers,” “mission-aligned operators,” and “team players.” Useful, but vague. In a market where hiring is hyper-competitive and interview volume is high, those labels...

Scale & Strategy together with Lighthouse This is Scale & Strategy – the newsletter that maintains what psychiatrists have called “an unhealthy fixation” on business, so you can become a smarter operator! Here’s what we got for you today: How to measure your customers’ “stickiness” Anthropic’s IPO wouldn’t be about the cash How to measure your customers’ “stickiness” Yes, it sounds like something cooked up in a questionable product meeting, but it’s a real metric that matters. Stickiness is...