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- About Nik Hulewsky : Nik Hulewsky has built, scaled, and sold multiple businesses generating over $100M in revenue, starting in healthcare. He lives in Idaho.
Best Posts
Nik's most essential writing on building and buying businesses, leading people, and the real lessons that come from doing the work. Start here.
- 5 Critical Steps Before Starting Your Healthcare Company : Nik Hulewsky shares five things to know before starting a healthcare company, from the license and business model to buying versus building from scratch.
- Four Books That Can Transform Your Leadership Journey : Nik Hulewsky shares four books for new leaders, including Leadership and Self-Deception, Crucial Conversations, and The Advantage, and why they matter.
- CRAFT Framework: $90k to $7.8M in Under 6 Years : Nik Hulewsky shares the CRAFT framework for buying your first business: cashflow, risk minimization, analysis, financing, and the model.
Business & Entrepreneurship
How to start, buy, and grow businesses. I interview founders, share frameworks I've tested, and write about what nobody tells you before you sign that first check. My interview with Minh Nguyen covers how he earns $10K/month automating directories with AI. Minh is an entrepreneur and developer from the Bay Area, and his approach to using AI to build and scale businesses is worth studying.
- OpenClaw's Dominance Over OpenRouter Token Usage : Nik Hulewsky breaks down how OpenClaw hit 2.89 trillion tokens in one week on OpenRouter, half of all usage, ahead of Kilo Code and Claude Code.
- Minh Nguyen: He Earns $10K/Month Automating Directories With AI : Nik Hulewsky interviews Minh Nguyen on using AI for web scraping, programmatic SEO, and building real businesses like Cash On without heavy coding.
- 5 Critical Steps Before Starting Your Healthcare Company : Nik Hulewsky shares five things to know before starting a healthcare company, from the license and business model to buying versus building from scratch.
- CRAFT Framework: $90k to $7.8M in Under 6 Years : Nik Hulewsky shares the CRAFT framework for buying your first business: cashflow, risk minimization, analysis, financing, and the model.
General
Posts that do not fit one lane: observations, arguments, and things I wanted to write down. "Record Profits. Mass Layoffs. Same Companies." is the kind of piece you will find here, where I dig into why five companies banked $165.9 billion and still cut 71,500 jobs.
- Record Profits. Mass Layoffs. Same Companies. : Nik Hulewsky looks at why companies like Oracle, Amazon, and Meta posted record profits while cutting 71,500 jobs, and what is driving the divergence.
Leadership & Growth
Leadership lessons, book recommendations, and the uncomfortable truths about growing as a person while running a company. Most of this I learned by getting it wrong first. "The Tug-of-War of Free Advice" is personal. I get requests to pick my brain all the time, and I hate it. That post explains why and offers a better way to ask.
- The Tug-of-War of Free Advice : Nik Hulewsky on the guilt and frustration behind every request to pick his brain, and the honest internal battle over giving away high-value advice.
- Four Books That Can Transform Your Leadership Journey : Nik Hulewsky shares four books for new leaders, including Leadership and Self-Deception, Crucial Conversations, and The Advantage, and why they matter.
Media
YouTube milestones, video content, and the behind-the-scenes of building a media presence. I started putting myself out there on camera, and these posts track what happened next. I hit 10,000 subscribers on YouTube this week. That milestone felt real in a way that earlier numbers didn't. I wrote about what it took to get there.
- Hitting 10,000 Subscribers on YouTube : Nik Hulewsky hits 10,000 YouTube subscribers and shares his three most viewed episodes, including talks with Chris Koerner and Minh Nguyen.
- AI Tool in 60 Seconds: A Guide to Claude's New Artifacts : Nik Hulewsky walks through Claude's new Artifacts feature and unpacks the Jony Ive and Sam Altman dispute and the escalating battles between AI labs.
Podcast
My podcast conversations with founders, developers, and people doing interesting work. I ask the questions I actually want answered, not the ones that make for safe interviews. My conversation with Elizabeth Knopf about Google's AI tools turned into one of the most eye-opening episodes I've recorded. Most people are sleeping on what's available, and she showed me why.
- Why Everyone's Sleeping on Google's AI Tools — And How To Use Them : Nik Hulewsky and Elizabeth Knopf demo Google's Nano Banana, AI Studio, and Claude Code, showing how to build real tools with no traditional coding.
- Minh Nguyen: He Earns $10K/Month Automating Directories With AI : Nik Hulewsky interviews Minh Nguyen on using AI for web scraping, programmatic SEO, and building real businesses like Cash On without heavy coding.