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Samuel Riegel's avatar

Great article! I've been building a research corpus around the history of trust and sales, here's a quick piece I wrote expanding on a few of your points: https://samriegel.substack.com/p/costly-signaling-of-lighthouses-and

Grant Brewster's avatar

> Canvassing every bus stop in a major metro isn’t grabbing land.

what is the term for subtweeting on substack? subsubstack?

Mitchell Kosowski's avatar

The exposure-wins-over-math rule is the part most founders skip: they see budget and a clean ROI and assume landgrab, then get stuck in a pilot because they never asked how exposed the person signing actually is.

Hamza Moftah's avatar

Great article! Would you consider healthcare AI startup in the lighthouse category? So similar to legal AI with Harvey for example!