Leadership
Prefer the evolutionary method (kaizen) over the disruptive one when managing change in your organization
Having led engineering teams for over 16 years across startups and scaleups, one lesson repeats in every company: how you introduce a change matters as much as the change itself.
AI
5 mistakes when integrating AI in digital products (and why the chatbot is not the solution)
Lately I open a new app, see they have "added AI" and I already know what I'm going to find: a little bubble in the bottom right corner that opens a chat.
AI
How to Code with AI Using Spec-Driven Development
Why Claude Code's output depends less on the model and more on what you write before asking for anything. With two real specs from Venturest.
Leadership
When Management Feels the Team Is Slow
Nine pregnant women do not make a baby in a month. Development is a system of scarce capacity, and the real leverage lies in what we let in, not in pushing harder on what is already inside.
AI
How to Get More Out of Google Antigravity (Without the Agent Working Against You)
Real coding use cases, how rules actually work, and what to do with skills and workflows.
AI
What I See When Companies Try to "Adopt AI"
And why many are asking the wrong question.
Strategy
Modernizing Legacy Systems Without Stopping the Business
Why 'let's rewrite everything' is almost always the wrong answer — and what to do instead.
Data
Jitsu vs Twilio Segment: How to Reduce the Cost of Your Product Event Pipeline by up to 90%
A real cost comparison between Twilio Segment and Jitsu, with the numbers that led us to migrate at Venturest and a calculator to estimate your own savings.
Leadership
15 Years of Learnings: The Mistakes That Taught Me to Be a Better CTO
After more than 15 years in the tech industry, leading teams in startups and scaleups, I share the technical, human, and personal mistakes that taught me the most.
AI
Adopt Artificial Intelligence in your company, it cannot be a task for interns.
Si eres buen manager y estás delegando la adopción de IA en tus becarios, lo vas a cagar.
AI
AI as a growth lever, not a buzzword
How to move from hype to AI use cases that actually move business metrics.
Leadership
Vibe coding is great. Until Go-to-market.
La semana pasada un amigo me enseñó su nuevo producto. El login estaba hardcodeado en el front. Usuario y contraseña visibles para cualquier...
Strategy
Tu startup tiene usuarios.
Tu startup tiene usuarios. Tiene ingresos. Y no sabe por qué crece ni por qué para de crecer.
Leadership
Trying to innovate with your current team is not a plan. It is a wish.
Trying to innovate with your current team is not a plan. It is a wish.
Engineering
Modernising legacy without stopping the business
Rewriting from scratch is almost never the answer. Evolutionary modernisation is.