Paul
Harkins
I write about the things we usually understand a little later than we'd like.
Relationships, ambition, getting older, building companies and occasionally realizing I was wrong.
Founder · Author of
The Refrigerator Test
I've spent most of my life building companies. Lately, I've been more interested in understanding the people who build them, including myself.
About Paul →Latest podcast
I think I like being the guest better.
My newest conversation, on podcasts, accidental honesty, and why the first thing out of your mouth might be the most truthful.
Books
The Refrigerator Test
Rated 4.9 stars on Amazon
32 short chapters on dating, compatibility, and the ordinary moments where people accidentally tell the truth about themselves. Open a door, read a life.
And home always tells the truth.
The Refrigerator Test
Founder
Building companies taught me almost as much about people as relationships did.
Paul has spent decades building and operating companies, including his current work in mobile technology.
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I write when I have something worth saying.
New writing and podcast appearances, occasionally. No newsletter nonsense.
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.
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.
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.