Founders Ramp
Books

Lessons

What Justin took from each book

The post is not up until he records it. Prompt first. He talks. We draft. He edits.

Record first

Extreme Ownership

Prompt for Justin: a time the miss was yours, the room watched, and you said I. Not a book report. One scene. What you said. What changed the next day.

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Eat Their Lunch

Prompt: a deal that already had a vendor. You did not trash them. What did you ask. Who moved.

Never Split the Difference

Prompt: a time you argued someone into a yes that was not a yes. What you would ask instead.

High-Profit Prospecting

Prompt: a week of conversations with people who could not buy. What you stopped doing.

The Challenger Sale

Prompt: you taught a founder something about their own week. Then the product had a place. The sentence you used.

Cracking the Sales Management Code

Prompt: you inspected activity instead of the work. What the inspect looks like now.

Selling to VITO

Prompt: a tour with everyone except the person who owns the number. How you got to that person, or failed.

Mega Deal Secrets

Prompt: a late deal with one thread. Who else had to be in the room.

The One Minute Manager

Prompt: a correction you saved for Friday. What you say the same afternoon now.

The 7 Habits

Prompt: a week spent in the circle you cannot control. What you cut.

MEDDIC / MEDDPICC

Prompt: a founder whose competitor is building it themselves. Why the enterprise map does not qualify that week.

The book in the works

Prompt: the job nobody trained you for. One week you still owned every deal. What you will not do again.