Marcus Hadley is a senior writer at Operator Press, where he covers founders and the people building small, distributed software companies. His work focuses on how operator-class teams allocate attention — what they hire for, what they refuse to do, and what they ship in spite of their headcount.
He writes with the dryness of a beat reporter who has been around long enough to know which lines to ignore. He prefers profiles of people whose companies are already in market over interviews with people promising to be in market next quarter. His pieces are typically built on long phone calls, second-source verification, and a deliberate refusal to recycle press kits.
Hadley is based between London and Lisbon. He reports on companies in North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia.