Founder-led brands: Is there a winning formula?
August 20, 2026Founder-led brands: When does the founder help the brand, and when does the brand need to outgrow the founder?
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Founder-led brands: When does the founder help the brand, and when does the brand need to outgrow the founder?
You thought it was a waste of money? But I bet you missed the one detail that would disprove your assumption!
On LinkedIn, stop ‘connecting’, start following, or being followed. It makes a lot more sense when personal branding is the objective.
Do not confuse Astronomer’s masterful effort in attention management with crisis management. The audience for both is vastly different.
As someone who has never used any LinkedIn ‘hack’ and have seen dwindling reach in the last few months, here’s how I recommend dealing with it.
Companies are spending money on LinkedIn to promote the careers of their marketing teams. Bizarre? But that’s what is happening!
A ‘factory visit’ seems to be the post-crisis campaign holy grail! After Cadbury’s ‘worms’, Coca-Cola ‘pesticide’, Dabur Honey ‘adulteration’, now… Bournvita ‘sugar’!