Archive - benn.substack

From software-as-a-service to specialist-and-a-spreadsheet.

Jul 11

Ambition, fun and not

Cheat on enterprise sales objection handling.

Jul 4

June 2025

Is tech still tech, or influencers making memes?

Jun 27

Fear and self-loathing in Silicon Valley

I somehow ended up at YC Demo Day.

Jun 20

How much agency do we actually want?

"Mr. Torres did as instructed."

Jun 13

Which way from here?

Data tries one more time.

Jun 6

May 2025

April 2025

A new invisible hand

The inscrutable ghost in every MCP server.

Apr 25

Startups (still) aren’t businesses (yet?)

Why make a business that makes a little bit of money every day when you can make an asset that makes a ton of money all at once?

Apr 18

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