Bhavik SarkhediPersonal branding for founders and executives
For founders

Personal branding, decided properly

12 long-form guides, each built around a video from the channel. The decision lane. Budget, risk, sequencing, what a leader actually does about being searchable.

12 guides19,824 words12 videosUpdated 1 Sept 2026
01 · Foundations

Personal branding for founders, once you strip out the advice

Most founder branding advice is about output. Post more, speak more, be visible. The thing that decides whether any of it works is a layer...

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02 · Search reality

What comes up when someone Googles you, and how to change it

The first page for your name is a document about you that you did not write. Here is how to read it properly, and the order in which the pieces can...

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03 · The business case

The honest ROI of executive personal branding

Nobody can hand you a clean return figure for this, and anyone who does is making it up. What you can do is measure the four places it actually shows...

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04 · The plan

A twelve-month personal branding strategy for a founder

Not a content calendar. A sequence, with a quarter-by-quarter order that puts the slow compounding work first and the visible work second, because...

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05 · Where the line goes

Personal brand vs company brand: where the line actually goes

The two are not competitors and they are not the same thing. They answer different questions, for different people, at different moments. Confusing...

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06 · Earned media

How founders actually get media coverage

Not by having a story. By being an easy, verifiable, low-risk source at the exact moment a journalist needs one. The mechanics are unromantic and...

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07 · Money and people

What personal branding costs, and who you should actually hire

The market sells you a content person because content is what agencies staff. For most founders the first hire is a different role entirely, and...

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08 · Failure modes

Eight ways founders waste a personal branding budget

Every one of these is something I have watched happen to someone competent with real money to spend. None of them look like mistakes at the time,...

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09 · When it goes wrong

When your search results turn against you

A bad result, a wrong fact, a namesake with a scandal, an old article that will not die. What can actually be removed, what can only be outranked,...

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10 · Investor diligence

What investors find when they diligence you

Founder diligence starts long before the data room, it happens privately, and nobody tells you the result. Here is what actually gets checked, in...

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11 · Two different jobs

Thought leadership and personal branding are not the same job

One is about being known. The other is about being right about something before other people are. They need different work, they fail differently,...

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12 · Stages and mics

Stages and podcasts: which ones are worth your time

Most speaking invitations are worth less than the day they cost. A few are worth ten of everything else. The difference is predictable, and the...

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