Your most talented developer has become your company's single point of failure. When they leave—and statistics show they will—your revenue engine could collapse. Smart leaders are implementing systematic knowledge transfer and architectural resilience strategies before crisis hits.

We extract the knowledge trapped in their heads so your heavy-hitters can get back to building your competitive advantage.

Perplexity AI, a three-year-old startup valued at just $14 billion, stunned the tech world by launching an unsolicited all-cash bid of $34.5 billion for Google’s Chrome browser—more than twice its own valuation—with financing lined up from unnamed funds. If successful, the deal wouldn’t just transfer a browser used by over three billion people—it would catapult Perplexity’s AI-powered Comet vision into the mainstream.

John Collison (Stripe co-founder) casually tossed out a suggestion on X to Google CEO Sundar Pichai—asking for a simple Ctrl-drag shortcut to duplicate events in Google Calendar—and, in a swift nod to responsiveness, Google rolled out the feature publicly.

Great leadership is more than a feel-good perk—it’s a force-multiplier. When leaders set a clear north star, coach instead of command, and celebrate progress, entire teams level-up. Midwestern’s CEO, Matt Johnson, breaks down five counter-intuitive ways this happens.

Finding good developers takes forever. Training them? Even longer. You're looking at three to six months before they're actually helping instead of just asking questions. That's where the 1/3-2/3 model comes in handy.