The Journal
7 articles on leadership.
When people ask me about the biggest lessons from building Atlantic Tech, my answer always starts with people. Strategy, tools, and timing all matter, but the right team determines whether any of them succeed.
October 5, 2026 · 4 min read
Peter Kazan on the filter he uses to decide what earns his attention as Atlantic Tech scales, and the meetings he no longer takes.
August 31, 2026 · 5 min read
Mentorship in business is usually treated as something senior people do once they've already arrived, a favor granted from the top down. I've never experienced it that way. The leaders who shaped how I lead reached back for someone else before they'd finished their own climb.
August 24, 2026 · 2 min read
Growing up, I never called it a leadership philosophy. It was just how things worked. You judged quality by whether something held up, not by how it looked the moment you first saw it. I think of it as exactly that now, and it has shaped nearly every decision I've made building a company.
August 17, 2026 · 4 min read
Long before Atlantic Tech existed, I worked under a shop foreman who had no formal reason to invest in me. I was young, unproven, and easy to overlook. He didn't overlook me. He explained why things were done a certain way instead of just telling me to do them.
August 10, 2026 · 2 min read
A revenue number, a headline, a milestone slide in a deck, none of those things carry meaning by themselves. They are just evidence that something happened. Whether that something mattered depends entirely on why you were building it in the first place.
August 4, 2026 · 4 min read
The best mentors I've known never handed down answers from above. They walked alongside, asked hard questions, and learned as much as they taught.
June 18, 2026 · 1 min read
