Silent Strength Meets Bold Energy: How Collaboration Builds Success

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Benjamin Friedman
August 19, 2025

Morning beehiivcommunity!

This newsletter turns experience into lessons for your startup. As a growth partner for visionary founders, we help sharpen leadership skills and unlock growth potential.

Inspire Success with a Workplace Everyone Thrives In

“Corporate culture is the only sustainable competitive advantage completely within the control of the entrepreneur. Develop a strong culture first and foremost.” – David Cummings 

What if a founder's strongest competitive advantage isn't technology, funding, or strategy, but building a workplace culture that elevates all these areas and more? 

A thriving startup workplace effectively leverages both introverted depth and extroverted energy by striking a balance between focused quiet time and dynamic collaboration. Recognizing different productivity styles through thoughtful company communication, hiring, workflows, and leadership behavior can spark innovation, boost engagement, and drive long-term success. 

Leaders create lasting impact when they show authenticity, respect diverse working styles, and create conditions where every stakeholder contributes to the company's success.

Photo by Leah Friedman

How Non-Tech Companies Are Winning with AI and Automation

Most businesses are stuck wondering how to stay competitive while technology is rewriting the rules.

You may feel like you’re falling behind, and then like you’re losing efficiency, and your competition’s market share is growing quickly.

We’re bringing together leaders in technology, finance, and marketing to discuss exactly how they’re using AI and automation to boost productivity, increase revenue, and build an edge their competitors don’t have.

Join us on September 17 from 6-8 pm for practical steps, organizational shifts, and proven insights to unlock AI’s potential in your company. 

The event includes an opportunity for audience questions, networking, and light food and refreshments. To register, go HERE.

Build Scale Grow appreciates the support we get for these events from companies like Ramp. Read more about them below.

Expert Tips for Startups

How a Singular Focus Will Help Predict the Next Outbreak

With a mission to predict infectious diseases, the possibilities were endless. But we knew we had to start by focusing on only one.

We began predicting dengue outbreaks in Brazil to strengthen our data model and ensure the accuracy needed to scale.

Prioritization accelerated impact, fostered trust, and facilitated partnerships to deliver timely health intelligence where it was needed most.

Focus gave us the technical confidence and strategic clarity we needed. Later, we can target new regions and other diseases.

Mirelle Pereira is the Founder and CEO of Santé, a startup using machine learning from sanitation and climate data to predict infectious disease outbreaks.

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Need Some Help?

What if the quietest person in the room is the one who changes the world?

Build Scale Grow provides expert strategies and clear metrics for social impact, EdTech, and health tech startups, with a focus on introverted founders. With five successful M&As in ten years, we’ll help your startup reach its full potential and beyond.

Book a free 30-minute call HERE to see how we can help.