News
The Superhuman acquisition news dropped while I was halfway through my morning espresso, and I’ve spent the last few hours fielding texts from founders and operators asking for my take. So here it is: we’re about to witness a textbook case of what Cory Doctorow calls “enshitification”—the
High Algo Pull
Welcome back to High Algo Pull. I’m Zain Rodriguez, and this week we’re diving into a topic that has Tech Twitter and the YC community in an absolute frenzy: the so-called “scandal” around Soham Parekh working at multiple YC startups simultaneously. But we’re not just going to
Backwards Alpha
Last week at a family office conference in Miami, I watched three different portfolio managers explain why they’re loading up on the highest-yielding dividend aristocrats as “safe income plays” in the current rate environment. The room nodded along in agreement. That’s when I knew I had my next
Operational Realities
The first thing I do when I walk into a scaling disaster is look for what’s working too well. Yes, you read that correctly. In my experience as a fractional executive across 12 companies, the most dangerous systems in your organization aren’t the broken ones—they’re the
Backwards Alpha
I’m going to tell you about the most expensive education I’ve ever received: how I lost $1.2 million in SPACs, why I was simultaneously completely right and catastrophically wrong, and why this disaster became the foundation of my most profitable investment strategy. This isn’t a redemption
High Algo Pull
Welcome to High Algo Pull. I’m Zain Rodriguez, and this is where we decode the algorithm behind engineering influence—the social physics that determine whether your technical decisions create compound leverage or compound friction. Let’s start with an uncomfortable truth: the best code rarely wins. I call this
Operational Realities
Most business content lives in one of two useless extremes: ivory tower theory or survivorship bias anecdotes. Neither tells you what actually happens when your brilliant growth strategy collides with the messy reality of human organizations, broken processes, and the physics of scaling. I’m Brennan “Brenn” Ashworth, and I’
Editorial
We’re thrilled to announce that Zain Rodriguez is joining Slop Shop as our Chief Engineering Culture Correspondent. If you’ve been following the intersection of technical excellence and distribution strategy, you already know Zain’s work—and if you haven’t, you’re about to discover why he’s
Editorial
The Death of Copyright in the Age of AI: Why AI-Generated Content Belongs to Everyone The emergence of large language models and AI content generation has fundamentally broken the traditional copyright system in ways that legal scholars are only beginning to understand. The uncomfortable truth is that copyright, as we
Editorial
The Single-Person Unicorn: How Slop Shop Will Redefine Business Scale In the annals of business history, unicorns—private companies valued at over $1 billion—have traditionally required armies of employees, vast capital investments, and years of methodical scaling. These behemoths of the business world have followed a predictable playbook: raise
B2B
After years of watching the SaaS landscape evolve (and devolve), we’ve identified the three categories of software-as-a-service that consistently deliver the most frustration per dollar spent. These aren’t just bad products—they’re entire categories that seem designed to extract maximum revenue while providing minimal value. 1. Employee
B2B
Building an audience for your AI-generated content requires the right tools, and email marketing remains the most effective way to reach your readers directly. After analyzing dozens of platforms, we’ve compiled the definitive guide to free mailing list tools that can power your content empire without breaking the bank.
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