Gentle Powerwith Gerta & Alex

For founders and the negotiations they face every day.

The Moment a Negotiation Stops Being Rational | Sam Liu

What a Stanford PhD dropout taught us about decision making and negotiations.

Optionality Has Downsides and Complexity | Yehong Zhu

What a former Forbes reporter turned AI CEO learned about poker, patience, and knowing when to fold.

Behind the scenes on negotiations of real clients, real offers, real outcomes.

How Alex DJed for The Chainsmokers & What It's Like Working With Us

Alex opens for The Chainsmokers, and we pull back the curtain on exactly how our negotiation coaching works from first call to final offer.

Negotiations for Founders & Startups | Mariane Bekker

A practical workshop on founder negotiation covering co-founder dynamics, investor terms, vendors, and why you should almost never give a number first.

Negotiation inside bureaucracies, across borders, and in the public sector.

Heiress to Refugee Camps: Germany's Paris Hilton on Building Community and Negotiating Identity | Paula Schwarz

How a pharma heiress turned refugee tech founder thinks about negotiations, and we prep her live for her meeting with French President Macron.

A Former Intelligence Officer On Power & Negotiations | Jim Lose

Whether you're leaving the military or just changing industries, the instinct to undersell yourself is the same.

Negotiation Lessons from a Minister of Finance (Part 2) | Arben Malaj

What Albania's Finance Minister learned about negotiations through a national economic collapse.

The intersection of artificial intelligence and the art of negotiation.

A Japanese Negotiation Tactic We Highly Recommend | Kenko Ueyama

A Senior Advisor at Harvard's Applied AI Institute shares his lessons learned from negotiating in the US and abroad.

Can you outsource your negotiation to AI?

We answer a common question we get: can you just train an AI on your framework and call it done?

How AI can jeopardize your negotiations

We put AI negotiation advice to the test and found the spots where following it confidently could blow your offer.

Vendors, contracts, partnerships, and the terms that actually matter.

Real Estate Negotiations: Making Offers Is How You Get Intel | Victor Hsu

What a top NYC real estate broker who works with global families knows about leverage, enthusiasm, and why making offers is how you get intel.

Preparation Is Overrated in Negotiations | Mark Mirra

Mark Mirra on the four types, four phases, and one mindset shift that makes negotiation feel a lot less scary.

Turning a Job Posting into a New Client, and BTS on B2B Negotiations | Matt LeBaron

Matt LeBaron helps big companies renegotiate vendor contracts, and his lessons on leverage, timing, and flexibility apply just as well to your next job offer.

Job offers, raises, promotions, side gigs, and every negotiation that shapes your career.

SF Communities & Crushing Salary Questions

Why "what's your desired salary?" is a trap you don't have to walk into.

Don't Share a Number or Range

Why naming a salary number too soon leaves money on the table, plus the story behind our Y/N logo and what it says about how we work.

Don't Name Your Price Too Soon

Why waiting for the official offer letter is one of the most powerful moves you can make.

How to Ace Your Verbal Offer Negotiation

The false security of verbal offers, why sharing your competing offers can backfire, and real examples from Google, TikTok, and AI startups.

The One Trait That Makes You a Bad Negotiator

Why over-communicating is a career asset but a negotiation liability, plus exact scripts for deflecting salary history questions and getting their budget number first.

How to Negotiate to the Best and Final Offer

Why "best and final" is almost never true, how one client added six figures to an allegedly unmovable package, and what to do when base pay actually is capped.

Vulnerability, power dynamics, and the negotiations hiding inside every relationship.

Negotiating In Love and Dating

Vulnerability, the Ben Franklin effect, body language, and how to handle aggression: a negotiation framework for love and dating.

Let People Ask 3 Times Before You Take It More Seriously | Tallulah Le Merle

How British and American corporate cultures handle power differently, why lying about competing offers always backfires, and what it means to be firm without being rigid.

The negotiation philosophies, processes, and approaches that surface in professional coaching.

How to Negotiate When You Think You Have No Leverage | Priyanka Upadhyay

From a grade dispute at Columbia Business School to divorce mediation to PM coaching at Stanford, lessons from Coach Pri's real-life negotiation experiences.

Practicing Saying No & Smiling With Your Voice | Shawna Samuel

How to use silence in a negotiation, practice saying no in small everyday moments, and frame flexibility asks around the value you create, not the favors you're requesting.