Memos by Brian Swichkow

Brian Swichkow
Brian Swichkow is a marketing strategist, entrepreneur, and author recognized for his diverse expertise across Growth Engineering and Go-To-Market (GTM) automation, including community-led and...
Cargo CDK
Cargo CDK is the declarative, infrastructure-as-code layer of Cargo that models a Go-To-Market (GTM) stack the way the AWS CDK models cloud infrastructure — every resource declared in code through a...
Cargo
Cargo is a Go-To-Market (GTM) infrastructure platform founded in 2022 and backed by Y Combinator (S23 batch) with a $19.4M Series A. It unifies Customer Relationship Management (CRM) data, product...
Cargo CLI
Cargo CLI is a Cargo product that drives the entire GTM platform — data models, connectors, workflows, agents, mailboxes, and billing — from the terminal as the @cargo-ai/cli npm package, returning...
Cargo MCP
Cargo{bold} exposes workspace tools, agents, data models, and connector actions as Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers — making the full GTM automation layer callable from any MCP client (Claude...
Cargo Manifest
Cargo Manifest is a Cargo product: an MIT-licensed repository template for running a Go-To-Market (GTM) motion the way engineers run software, with everything the company knows, everything it is...
Cargo Mailboxes
Cargo Mailboxes is a feature of Cargo that gives a workspace its own sending domains and inboxes, so plays, tools, and agents can deliver cold email through the native sendEmail action with pacing,...
Lusha
Lusha is a Business-to-Business (B2B) contact-data and sales-intelligence company founded in 2016 by Assaf Eisenstein and Yoni Tserruya. It sells verified business emails, direct-dial phone numbers,...
CI/CD
CI/CD is the software-delivery practice that pairs continuous integration, which automatically builds and tests every code change, with continuous delivery or continuous deployment, which...
SuperHappyDevHouse
SuperHappyDevHouse (SHDH) is a long-running series of informal, all-night hacker gatherings—part LAN party, part startup incubator, part social event—founded in Silicon Valley in 2005 for people to...
Tzen Lai
Tzen (Suzanne) Lai is a product strategist, entrepreneur, and embodied transformation guide whose work bridges technology, human behavior, and conscious power. She founded Tzen Consulting in 2023,...
Rachel Blair
Rachel Blair is the owner and Chief Operating Officer at ALYST Health, A Catalyst Recovery Company, located in Los Angeles, CA. She has held leadership responsibilities at ALYST Health since 2014,...
Home Assistant
Home Assistant is free, open-source home-automation software that runs locally to monitor and control smart-home devices from thousands of brands through a single, privacy-focused interface. First...
BILL
BILL (NYSE: BILL), founded in 2006 as Bill.com by René Lacerte, is an American financial-operations software company that automates accounts payable, accounts receivable, and spend and expense...
Divvy
Divvy, now operated as BILL Spend & Expense, is a spend-management platform that pairs free expense-management software with smart corporate cards, giving small and mid-sized businesses real-time...
NanoLeaf
Nanoleaf is a Canadian smart-lighting company, founded in 2012 in Toronto, that designs energy-efficient LED products—most recognizably its modular, touch-reactive light panels—for the connected...
Foundation for Intentional Community
Foundation for Intentional Community is a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports the intentional-communities movement—ecovillages, cohousing, communes, and cooperatives—serving the field as...
Matter
Matter is a royalty-free, IP-based connectivity standard for smart home devices, developed by the Connectivity Standards Alliance to let products from different manufacturers work together across...
Millennial Pokemon
Millennial Pokemon is a term for the increasingly widespread use of location sharing with the Find My app, especially among millennials in southern California. By letting people reveal their...
Rho
Rho is a fintech-company designed to unify business banking and financial management, specifically tailored for startups scaling through various growth stages. Rather than operating as a standalone...