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The Refrigerator Test
32 short chapters on dating, compatibility, and the ordinary moments where people accidentally tell the truth about themselves. Open a door, read a life.
Founder · Executive Coach · AuthorPaul
Paul
Harkins
Twenty years of building companies, a few patents, one honest book about refrigerators, and a second one about the things that quietly hold people back.
"People reveal themselves in the ordinary moments. So do companies."
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Invisible Chains
Break what holds you back. Become who you were meant to be.
The chains we don't see, the stories we believe, and the freedom that's waiting on the other side of both. From the author of The Refrigerator Test.
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About Paul
Paul Harkins
Founder, mentor, author, patent holder and father.
Paul Harkins is a founder, mentor, and author who has spent more than twenty years building companies, and studying the people who build them.
As a founder and inventor, Paul has launched, scaled, and exited businesses across technology, mobile, and financial services. He holds multiple patents in technology infrastructure and has founded companies including Billaway, GetAugie, Perch Mobile and TrivoSolutions.
But building companies is only part of his work.
Paul mentors founders and senior leaders navigating the less visible side of ambition, the pressure, patterns, relationships, and personal tradeoffs that rarely make it into the business books. His approach comes not from theory, but from decades spent inside the uncertainty, intensity, failures, reinventions, and occasional victories of entrepreneurship.
That same curiosity shapes his writing. As an author, Paul explores the patterns we carry into our relationships, our work, and our lives, especially the ones we stop noticing because they've been with us for so long.
His work, whether with a founder or on the page, ultimately asks the same question:
Are you still choosing the life you're building, or are you simply following the patterns that built you?
Paul is based in New York City. Father first. Founder, mentor, and author after that.