Warm on top, edge underneath.

I'm Peter Holgate. Over the last two decades I've built and sold six companies, written two books, and spent an unhealthy amount of time obsessing over the same question: why do good operators get stuck at exactly the point where the business should start running itself?

The answer is almost never the one they expect. It's rarely strategy. It's rarely talent. It's almost always a single wheel in the machine — a delivery system, a sales motion, a founder dependency — that's seized up and is quietly dragging everything else to a halt.

What I do now

I find that wheel, name it out loud, and turn it. Sometimes that's on The Buccaneer's Table, diagnosing a guest's agency in the open. Sometimes it's in The Broadside, the fortnightly dispatch. And sometimes it's one-to-one, with operators who built something real and now need to build something that runs without them.

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