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NOTES FROM STEPHEN

When JSuite first launched, it had one function - to provide a space for Jewish businesspeople to help each other. Some asked for help, others provided help. It was a true community.

Since then we built a LOT of additional features, which are all great, but I want to re-center our focus back on the initial goal - helping each other.

Starting this week, every email will feature two threads from the JSuite Community:

AMA (ask me anything), where a member takes your questions and provides advice and insight.

Requests, where a member asks for an intro, advice or a recommendation. You'll find both below.

Subscribing to this newsletter and joining the community are two separate things - both are free. The newsletter is a weekly highlight of what's going on. The community is where it's actually going on - where you can ask questions in AMA threads, help others with their Requests, and search the member directory. Right now only about 10% of subscribers are enrolled even though it only take 10 seconds.

If you haven't yet, it's one click with the same email you're reading this on: sign in to the JSuite Community. I'd love to see you in there.

Now, on to this week's email!

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THIS WEEK IN JSUITE

MEMBER OF THE WEEK

Drew Golub
Founder, Builder, AI expert
Columbus, OH

Drew is an attorney by training who would rather build than practice. From Columbus, he splits his time between client work at Pinnacle Ethos, where he builds AI-driven operating systems for businesses, and the ventures he holds a stake in: ASaabForever.com, Denali Liquidation Group and Young Entrepreneur Council.

I just pick what I want to focus on, and I love building. That's really why there's so much going on. I split my time between clients and the ventures I have a stake in, plus a few things on the side. Most days I'm in the terminal, in the code, building systems and watching things grow. What I've gotten better at lately is delegation. Good systems let me hand work off and step back toward running things instead of doing every task. That's what buys back time for Amber and the dogs.

AI is in almost everything I do now. It's let me build things I never thought I could: actual software, tools and systems, not just answers. I lean on it across the companies I work with, from ASaabForever.com to Denali Liquidation Group, the member tools inside Young Entrepreneur Council, and client work through Pinnacle Ethos. Marketing, operations, inventory, forecasting, all of it. But I treat it as a supplement, not a replacement. It doesn't do the thinking for you.

The biggest thing I see people get wrong is they never use AI for its real strengths. They treat it like Google and assume ChatGPT is all there is. It's an outside eye you can point at almost anything, if you learn how to talk to it. Most never learn to prompt or understand what it can really do. Closing that gap is a lot of what I teach inside YEC.

Mostly through sweat equity. I put my skills to work, and people started coming to me to weigh in, consult, or take a stake and help build what they were working on. Some I built from the ground up. Young Entrepreneur Council was different: a friend I met through the community acquired it and brought me in. She ended up mentoring me without really meaning to, and most of my growth over the past two years traces back to YEC.

What I look for is people first, business second. Partners who will have the hard conversation, even when they'd rather avoid it. I've also taken stakes that turned into nightmares, and every time it came down to being with the wrong people. If you can't work with them, or they don't share your ethic, no stake is worth it.

Honestly, delegating is hard for me. I'm ADD and dyslexic, and my head moves faster than I can type. So I talk to my computer all day, and everything I do gets recorded.

The bigger shift is software we built at Pinnacle Ethos that's coming to market soon. It pulls in every source of communication — meeting recaps, emails, WhatsApp chats — and uses AI to find the deliverables and rank them. I see everything in one place and know who each task goes to, or it gets assigned for me. Delegating still takes real involvement. Good systems just make it possible to let go.

Talking to my computer. I don't really type anymore. Emails, prompts, instructions for the code I'm building, even these answers. I just talk and let AI clean it up. I think most people will work this way pretty soon, they just don't know it yet. It's kind of the whole idea behind what I do: at Pinnacle Ethos I build operating systems for businesses — CRM, inventory, custom software, AI that can search a company's own knowledge. The goal is getting the founder out of the middle of everything. You start a business to support your life, not to live inside it.

A legal tech project I'm working on with a fellow Jewish cofounder: cohabitation agreements for Jewish kids on college campuses. Since October 7, a lot of Jewish students are moving into dorms with no idea if their roommate sees them as a person or as one side of an argument. Something simple, signed before move-in, that lays out respect, guests, safety, and what happens if it goes sideways. I lived a version of this in law school. I ran our Jewish law students group and couldn't find anyone willing to take it over after me, because people were scared. I'd rather build than practice law, and this one feels personal.

Israel. I was just there with a tech delegation. I've been to Yad Vashem before, and it's rough every time. This time what got me was watching the non-Jewish people in our group cry. No family connection, nothing tying them to it personally, and they were standing in front of the same photos I was, just wrecked. It meant something to see people who didn't have to care, care that much. We don't have to carry this alone.

Small and tight-knit. I've been here ten years, grew up in Cleveland, and the community in Columbus leans heavily toward business and networking. It's a lot of "oh, I know you, I know you." Most of my Jewish friends here are entrepreneurs or people I met through work. I'm an attorney by training and license, and even though I don't practice day to day, that's opened doors here. There's a strong Cleveland thread too. A lot of us came down through Ohio State, and those circles stay close.

Sarina Ziv and Alina Trigub. I've only met them virtually, but they're great. I touch base with both regularly, and they've been a real help.

Alina deserves a special mention. She's always willing to help, share insight, or make a connection. If it weren't for Alina, I wouldn't have filled a seat on the board of The DJ Mike D Foundation, the nonprofit I started in memory of a close friend. That's what this community does well.

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AMA OF THE WEEK

Eli Efrat has spent 30+ years in tech, much of it as a founder and CEO raising capital and building teams, and is now building Hawazai. He's taking questions on fundraising, leadership, and lessons from both wins and mistakes.

Want to be next week's AMA? Post your own AMA in the community and I'll feature the best one here.

REQUEST OF THE WEEK

Last week's Member of the Week Eitan Zarin is looking for material sponsors and mechanical or hydraulics engineering mentors for a couple of design-review calls before The Boring Company competition in March 2027.

Need an intro, advice or a recommendation? Post it in #Requests and it could be featured next week.

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