How to Build a High-Growth Operating System: 9 Lessons from 9 Years at Faire

Dan Hockenmaier · 18 Aug 2026

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Strategy is best practiced in a loop with execution, not before it.

Their wordsBut strategy is best practiced in a loop with execution, not as something that precedes it. You have to just start building, assess what you learned, adjust, and start again.

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