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For Multi-Business Owners Who Refuse to Drown in the Companies They Built I Didn’t Read the Playbook - I Wrote My Own -- I’m Zuzana, multi-company founder who scaled under pressure and learned the hard way what works when you’re running more than one business - and life won’t slow down. This space isn’t for tips. It’s for systems, decisions, and clarity built from the inside - shared for those who know success can’t be chaotic. It’s the playbook I wish I had when I was running it all. If you’re building empires, this is where you come to lead them differently. Because success should feel sovereign. Not suffocating.
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Who Do Billionaires Call When Sh*t Hits the Fan?
There’s a layer of problem-solvers you’ll never find on LinkedIn. They operate without websites. No testimonials. No PR. Just results - delivered in silence. This week’s issue of Founder’s Intel uncovers the covert talent networks used by billionaires, dynasties, and private power brokers when the stakes are too high for traditional consultants. But first, let’s set the tone: Imagine this:A founder in Latin America has $180M at risk - hostile regulators, leaked documents, and a narrative...
READ POSTThe First Black Book Has Landed: This Is Not Another Newsletter
The Black Book The doors have opened. Today marks the first release of The Black Book - a reserved tier of intelligence for operators who don’t ask how much something costs, but how it was structured to begin with. We’re starting with a blueprint that was never meant to be found online: The Silent LBOHow legacy assets are quietly acquired, restructured, and resold - without headlines, lawsuits, or staff walkouts. It’s not theory. It’s how conglomerates move. This edition includes: The Silent...
READ POSTThe Black Swan Farm: How to Build (and Back) Businesses Designed to Thrive in Chaos
Unicorns are overrated. The future belongs to those who cultivate Black Swans. What if the next $30B fortune isn’t born in Silicon Valley... but in exile, under surveillance, or buried inside a “legal gray zone”? This isn’t a hypothetical. It’s happening - quietly, patiently, and without your permission. While the mainstream keeps chasing unicorns (startups engineered for headlines and IPOs), a different breed of builder is designing ventures for collapse, censorship, exile, and the...
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Hostile Philanthropy – When Giving Becomes a Competitive Strategy
The Founder's Intel The quietest way to kill a competitor? Fund their executioners - and call it charity. When charity is a Trojan horse and goodwill is a weapon. You Were Told Philanthropy Is Impact But in the highest rooms, it’s positioning. Among the names you won’t find in Forbes, philanthropy isn’t a tax write-off. It’s a scalpel. And in the hands of the right founder, it’s more effective than lobbying, lobbying, or legal war. The public sees generosity. The competition never sees it...
READ POSTThe Hidden Saboteur in High Places
Why your sharpest edge dulls when no one’s watching - and what to do about it. THE SILENT FOG THAT STEERS EMPIRES OFF COURSE You're not lazy. Your brain's filing system is on fire. They don’t tell you this when you’re scaling: It’s not the big crisis that’ll kill your momentum. It’s the silent drag - the mental molasses that creeps in between meetings, between priorities, between versions of you trying to show up. That’s executive dysfunction. But not the clinical kind. The elite variant -...
READ POSTThe "Scenario Inversion" – How to Future-Proof Your Portfolio
The 2030 Exercise Every Multi-Business Owner Should Steal Most founders plan for scale.The ones who survive engineer for failure.The ones who dominate design for both, at once. Forecasting is an addiction - the dangerous kind. It gives you the illusion of control while quietly exposing your portfolio to collapse. You build revenue targets, growth curves, expansion scenarios. Everything looks clean on paper. Until compression hits. Until markets flip. Until regulators rewire the rules...
READ POSTThe Strategic Signal You're Ignoring (It's Costing You Money)
What you envy isn’t weakness—it’s a map. The Forbidden Emotion That Exposes Your Blind Spots Envy. The emotion everyone pretends they’ve transcended. Especially founders. We tell ourselves we’re evolved that we operate from abundance. That we cheer others on. But here’s the truth - envy hits us in quiet moments. Mid-scroll, mid-meeting, mid-milestone. We dismiss it as a flicker of irritation or brush it off as someone else’s luck. That’s a mistake. A costly one. Because envy isn’t just petty...
READ POSTWhy Your Executive Team Is Waiting for You to Stop Micromanaging
How your leadership signals may be stifling growth, innovation, and trust, without you realizing it. A few weeks ago, a founder running multiple companies told me, “I think they’re finally getting it. They’re taking initiative.” By they, he meant his executive team. In the same week, three of his senior leaders - independently - told me they were holding back decisions, second-guessing their moves, and quietly adapting to what they called “CEO volatility.” One sentence stuck with me: “He says...
READ POSTThe "Shadow Board" Strategy
When Your Best Advisors Don’t Exist (Yet) Your boardroom’s most dangerous assumption? The future will negotiate with you. Most strategic planning is performance art. It's safe, cyclical, and self-referential. You gather legacy voices around a polished table, then ask them to imagine a world that doesn't yet exist while staying within the limits of the one that does. That’s why 78% of Fortune 500 strategies fail to account for 'unknown unknowns.' They don’t build for volatility, cultural...
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