Why I Sign Emails with #Velocity

I sign off in my emails with #velocity instead of Regards Here's why:

🏎️ Speed is a Skill

As Patrick Collins of Stripe points out, Speed is a Skill. It can be improved with focused effort over time. As I write in this post titled "Turning Speed into Velocity: Your Vision, Mission, Values & OKRs," velocity is speed applied in a specific direction. And that is what really matters in building successful startups: Learning and iterating a quickly as possible.

Velocity permeates everything we do at Storytell, where I'm CEO. Our goal is to build the right thing fast, instead of the wrong thing right.

Want to go deeper?

Speed really matters in startups. My passion project, FounderCulture, is a community of founders + partners paying their hard-won knowledge forward to help other founders start & scale world-changing companies. FounderCulture has content like:

• Time Management:
  • Time Management for Mortals
  • Designing Your Time
• Decision Making:
  • Asking "Is This Safe to Try?" for Decision Making
    • Type 1 vs. Type 2 Decisions
  • The ARCI Framework for Decision Making (aka RACI)
  • Consent vs. Consensus: A Focus on Speed in Decision Making
• Communication:
  • The “Charge Clearing” Process
  • The Active Listening Framework
  • Stages of Awareness
  • Navigating Co-Founder Conflict With Clean Communication
    • Feelings vs. Needs worksheet
• People, Management & Leadership:
  • On Giving and Receiving Effective Feedback to your CEO, Execs, Manager, Peers, and Direct Reports
  • Why Defining "Shared Values" in Your Company Matters So Much
• GTM & PMF:
  • Apathy: The Killer of Stage 0 to Stage 1 Product-Market Fit
  • From Stage Zero to One PMF: Foundational GTM Motions
  • The Stages of Product/Market Fit
  • Scaling Your GTM: The Demand / Land / Succeed / Expand Flywheel
• Founders:
  • The Founder Pact
  • The First Thing To Do If You Want to Become a Founder
  • "Advice I'd Give Myself" Learnings from Scaling Founders Dinner
  • The FounderCulture podcast, Episode 1: "Fall in Love With the Problem, Not Your Solution"

Carveouts:

• My #Vanlife story – and you can find my Sprinter build thread here.
• "Acquired" is a must-listen podcast for Founders

One last thing

What can you do to become a DEIB Accomplice, Not Just an Ally? Here's my story, as I shared it to current INROADS students: