100 ISSUES IN

This is our 100th issue of Founder’s Framework. We’ve spent the last 100 weeks thinking about what it really takes to build, run, and scale a company you’ll love. What keeps showing up is this: small disciplines compound.

This week’s issue is about one of the simplest and most revealing of them all — your weekly meeting.

RUN BETTER MEETINGS EVERY WEEK

We put up with bad meetings for too long. We tell ourselves it comes with the territory. We get the team together, spend 90 minutes talking through things, leave with a few half-decisions, and then do it again the next week.

This can be one of the biggest mistakes you’re making as a founder. 

A bad weekly meeting is one of the clearest signs that something deeper is off. It usually means your priorities are unclear, your team isn’t as aligned as you think they are, or there are issues sitting below the surface that you haven’t dealt with yet.

Hear more on the latest Founder’s Framework episode, Why Your Weekly Meetings Don’t Work.

A weekly meeting may seem like a small thing, but it tells you a lot about how your company is really operating. It shows whether your leadership team is clear on what matters now, whether you can solve problems together, and whether your team is willing to stick to the disciplines that help them focus, align, and thrive.

So here’s a question worth sitting with: What do your weekly meetings reveal about the company you’re building?

PERSPECTIVES

“Your meetings are where you find out if you're winning."

— Kris Snyder, author of Meetings Kinda Suck

MARK MY WORDS

Better meetings start with us.

As founders, we set the tone. We decide whether the weekly meeting stays focused, whether priorities hold, and whether the team solves real issues or just circles around them.

What makes this hard is that meetings reveal things we may not want to see. They show us where we’re unclear, where our team is stuck, and where our agreements aren’t holding up under pressure.

A weekly meeting isn’t just a rhythm. It’s one of the clearest ways to see whether you’re building a productive, humane, and resilient company.

Kris Snyder recently wrote a book called Meetings Kinda Suck. The title makes people laugh, but the point is serious: Your meetings suck because you haven’t built the discipline to run them well.

When you do, everything gets better. You stop talking around issues and start solving them.

NEW BOOK: MEETINGS KINDA SUCK

This week’s conversation is really about one thing: what weekly meetings tell you about how your company is running. I’m especially excited to share Meetings Kinda Suck, a new book from Ninety by our Chief Advocate, Kris Snyder.

Kris takes a problem lots of teams live with every week and gets practical about fixing it. He shows how better meetings create more clarity, stronger accountability, and more progress.

If bad meetings have become normal in your world, this book will help you change that.

[Get Your Copy]

Run Weekly Meetings That Actually Drive Results
May 14, 2026 |  1:00 p.m. ET

If you want better weekly meetings, you need to treat them like they matter. This live session will show how to run a Level 10 Meeting® in Ninety in a simpler, more disciplined way, without piecing it together from spreadsheets, slide decks, and sticky notes.

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FOUNDER TOOLKIT

Rate Your Meetings

By now, we know how much your weekly meeting reveals. This quick assessment will show you whether your meetings are creating clarity, accountability, and progress, or making it harder for your team to stay aligned and move forward.

[Get Your Meeting Score]

FINAL THOUGHTS

If there’s one thing I’d leave you with, it’s this: Your weekly meeting tells you a lot about how your company is really running.

We covered a lot this week, but it all points back to the same idea. A conversation on what breaks meetings. A book on how to fix them. A session on how to run them better. A quick way to assess where you stand.

Because when you get your weekly meeting right, you create more clarity, solve the right issues, and stay aligned on what matters most. That’s how better meetings turn into a better-run company.

“The Chain” was pieced together by all five members of Fleetwood Mac during one of the band’s most turbulent seasons. They were fractured, frustrated, and far from aligned personally, but they still shared a clear sense of the music they wanted to make. That shared vision gave them enough common ground to collaborate, contribute, and create something enduring.