Most operators think 15% payroll-to-revenue is already lean. Sean Frank, CEO of Ridge, runs at 7%. The mechanism behind it isn't magic — it's structural. Shopify replaces the web dev team. Meta's algorithm replaces a chunk of the acqu…

Groq was three weeks from running out of cash. Founder Jonathan Ross was staring at a list of names his leadership team had put together for layoffs — and realized cutting them would kill the product before it ever hit the technical milestone it …