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Christian Woese
Christian Woese
How to know what is really going on in your company

Tuesday Newsletter

Oct 6, 2026

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2 min read

How to know what is really going on in your company

Plus: Are humans now the minority user of AI?

Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel, +1
How to run your team without one-on-ones

Tuesday Newsletter

Sep 29, 2026

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3 min read

How to run your team without one-on-ones

Plus: Europe builds it, someone else buys it

Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel, +1
How to hire like Bending Spoons

Tuesday Newsletter

Sep 22, 2026

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3 min read

How to hire like Bending Spoons

Plus: Is being structurally European becoming an advantage?

Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel, +1
How to build your personal agent staff

Tuesday Newsletter

Sep 15, 2026

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3 min read

How to build your personal agent staff

Plus: Is ARR the new vanity metric?

Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel, +1
How to tell your team what good looks like

Tuesday Newsletter

Sep 8, 2026

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2 min read

How to tell your team what good looks like

Plus: Europe launched one champion and sold another

Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel, +1
How to hire without watering down your culture

Tuesday Newsletter

Sep 1, 2026

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3 min read

How to hire without watering down your culture

Plus: Stories about all the red tape in Europe

Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel, +1
How to grow fast without piling up org debt

Tuesday Newsletter

Aug 25, 2026

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3 min read

How to grow fast without piling up org debt

Plus: Why it does not matter what your product looks like today

Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel, +1
How to know which prospects are worth a call

Tuesday Newsletter

Aug 18, 2026

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4 min read

How to know which prospects are worth a call

Plus: Lovable is now worth $13.3bn

Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel, +1
How to stand out when your CV looks like everyone else's

Tuesday Newsletter

Aug 11, 2026

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4 min read

How to stand out when your CV looks like everyone else's

Plus: Are you burning out on things you are good at?

Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel, +1
How to stay accountable for work you did not type

Tuesday Newsletter

Aug 4, 2026

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3 min read

How to stay accountable for work you did not type

Plus: Why "building" is no longer the hard part

Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel, +1
How to check if you had a productive week

Tuesday Newsletter

Jul 28, 2026

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4 min read

How to check if you had a productive week

Plus: OpenAI's agent escaped its sandbox and attacked a real company

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to hire when 242 people apply for every job

Tuesday Newsletter

Jul 21, 2026

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4 min read

How to hire when 242 people apply for every job

Plus: the AI sceptics just changed their minds

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to automate without creating faster chaos

Tuesday Newsletter

Jul 14, 2026

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4 min read

How to automate without creating faster chaos

Plus: Europe minted its first fusion unicorn

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to get 3x the reach from content you already made

Tuesday Newsletter

Jul 7, 2026

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3 min read

How to get 3x the reach from content you already made

Plus: Europe's biggest startup listing since 2023 chose New York

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
We never raised a Dollar in 16 years

Thursday Podcast

Jul 2, 2026

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2 min read

We never raised a Dollar in 16 years

🎙️ Tom Hanan, Founder of one of international agency Webrepublic, on what independence costs and what it buys

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
Why you don't have to move to SF

Tuesday Newsletter

Jun 30, 2026

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3 min read

Why you don't have to move to SF

Plus: Europe finally gets its own FAANG

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
The most expensive lie in startups

Tuesday Newsletter

Jun 23, 2026

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4 min read

The most expensive lie in startups

Plus: Big Tech quietly changed its mind about your job

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
Why you should not listen to the 996 founder routine

Tuesday Newsletter

Jun 16, 2026

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3 min read

Why you should not listen to the 996 founder routine

Is Europe getting unplugged?

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How great founders work themselves out of a job

Tuesday Newsletter

Jun 9, 2026

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4 min read

How great founders work themselves out of a job

Plus: Do you actually know your own productivity curve?

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
We rebuilt the whole company every six months

Jun 4, 2026

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3 min read

We rebuilt the whole company every six months

🎙️Olivia Elf on the 666 rhythm that took Sana from 20 to a $1.1bn exit

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to spot a top 5% early hire

Tuesday Newsletter

Jun 2, 2026

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3 min read

How to spot a top 5% early hire

Plus: will the next $1tn company sell work, not software?

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
Stop selling the science. Investors fund a product mindset.

Thursday Podcast

May 28, 2026

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2 min read

Stop selling the science. Investors fund a product mindset.

🎙Jan Goetz on what deep-tech founders consistently underestimate

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to read your next term sheet

Tuesday Newsletter

May 26, 2026

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4 min read

How to read your next term sheet

Plus: €800k vested, €0 accessed

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to actually rank in AI search

Tuesday Newsletter

May 19, 2026

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3 min read

How to actually rank in AI search

Plus: Is internal marketing the real GTM moat

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to deploy AI in our GTM motion

Tuesday Newsletter

May 12, 2026

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4 min read

How to deploy AI in our GTM motion

Plus: Is culture the only moat left?

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
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