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Ran Aroussi

Ran Aroussi

Ran Aroussi is the founder of VarOps and CEO of Automaze. He writes about building companies with AI from 35 years of experience in his column, “Founder Mode”, and hosts the podcast “Old School / New Tech”.

Middle management as a service
Founder Mode

Middle management as a service

If you can rent a fractional CFO, why not a fractional manager? The honest answer is more interesting than the pitch. AI ate the half of middle management you could sell as a service - and left the half that doesn't fractionalize cleanly.

A young company needs two kinds of people
Founder Mode

A young company needs two kinds of people

In an early-stage company you need exactly two kinds of people - the ones who build and the ones who sell. The whole middle layer, the coordination, the who-updates-whom, AI now does that. Here is how far you can defer it, and where the law-firm model lets you share it instead.