Everything42 + GSA Edition

Life, the Universe, and Fusion42 #017

Hello Hello,
I hope you all had a fantastic week and are making great moves. It was an up and down week here at Fusion-42. Here’s the 😇 Good, 😈 Bad and the 🤢 Ugly so we can all learn together.

😇 The Good

I’m back in Europe for a quick breather, family time and a celebration of life. True to form, the weather can’t decide—sunshine one minute, a torrential down-pour the next. It’s a neat mirror of startup life: apparently random swings, all serving a bigger purpose if you pause to read them.

LOVE PARIS

Here’s a three part pit-stop. Lens, Focus, What to do »> for that top-down view:

Macro – Is what I believed yesterday still true today?

Vision and core thesis

Grab a notebook. Write your vision in one crisp sentence, then work backwards to where you are today. If the joins feel strained, something’s not right and you have probably pivoted or started to focus on different things, dig in and realign.

Meso – Where’s the leak?

Systems and processes

Block half a day for a ruthless metrics rinse. Ditch vanity numbers, spot blockages, and embed the processes that keep the engine purring. Solid ops mean users get a smoother ride and you get the data to keep improving.

Micro – What tripped us up today?

Daily execution

Run a no-blame post-mortem on the last sprint. Isolate one root cause, fix it everywhere it bites, and only then hit the accelerator again.

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GSA Week 6: Pitch Perfect + AI Power-Ups

Week 6 of the Fusion42 GSA was a blur of high-impact practise:

• Pitch Deck Mastery – Kurt Walker & Nick Hughes drilled the art of telling the problem story, tuning to funding types, and baking in feedback loops.

• AI Live Build – Ryan Kohler showed how to turn ChatGPT, Claude.ai, Gamma.app, and Make.com into GTM, hiring, and content machines. Key mantra: quality first, then automate.
  

Watch the GSA reruns here. F42+ members

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😈 The Bad (and how we deal with it)

Managing 8,000+ members across Stripe, Telegram, Substack and Lu.ma has turned into a right old click-fest. So we’re wiring in a middleware “backbone” that lets every tool talk to the others—no more copy-and-paste firefighting.

What you’ll see: your own Admin Page.
One login shows:

• current plan & payment status

• live event links and replays

• Insights content store

• quick tier-switch button

Grab tonight’s call or tweak your plan in seconds—no email hunts, no “Resend the invite?” DMs.

We’re not at full autopilot yet, but each release scrapes off another layer of friction. Less admin, more action—just what busy founders need.

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🤢 The Ugly

Keep this front and centre: Trust Erodes Quicker Than Traction.
Everything ‘we” (all of us) do must be a customer benefits first philosophy.

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Well that’s it from me, I am so excited and pumped for what’s to come over the next days, weeks, months. Thanks to all for being part of this journey.

For the ❤️ of startups
Cheers,

Enjoy and hope to see you soon.

Derek, Henrik and Kurt

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