Lonny Shatzel

Lonny Shatzel

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About

A dynamic, results-driven executive with a 25+ year proven track record leading large-scale, global technical operations and business transformation initiatives. Core expertise centers on the successful financial stewardship of multi-billion-dollar capital and operational portfolios across the Data Center, Network Infrastructure, and Technology Services sectors. Recognized for building and motivating high-performing, geographically dispersed teams, I excel at driving strategic growth, operational excellence, and innovation in start-up to IPO environments (Infinera, Ciena) and Hyperscale environments .

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1mo ago

Ai content is why nobody trusts founders anymore

Strong claim, hear me out.

Every founder update reads the same now. "excited to share," emoji bullets, fake vulnerability about the rollercoaster. doesn't matter if it's real or not, it all sounds identical.

Noticed this hard while hiring. read every dm myself for a growth role. most were obviously ai-generated, same tone, zero thought put in. the ones that stood out were rough, specific, clearly written by someone who actually looked at the problem first.

Think the same thing's eating founder credibility. people used to trust a post because it sounded like someone actually figured something out.

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2mo ago

What number did you track that turned out to mean nothing?

Mine was Semrush's Authority Score. It went from 2 to 5 in a few weeks on a side project and I read it as progress.

Then I pulled the backlink list instead of trusting the summary number. 116 referring domains, up from before. The count of real follow links, the ones search engines actually treat as a vote, was exactly 4. Same as three weeks earlier. Not one more.

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