EO
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EO features founder interviews and startup conversations focused on product strategy, entrepreneurship, and practical lessons from building growth-stage companies.
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Founder interviews
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What a $7B founder learned building Glean from scratch
EO
May 14, 2026
Founder interviews
10
AI strategy & adoption
7
Product-market fit
6
Why giving your product away free for two years can be the right move
Don't build foundational models — focus where others won't invest
Conviction, not confidence, is what keeps a founder's idea alive
Identity & self-belief
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Why competing with AI on knowledge is a race humans will lose
EO
May 7, 2026
Identity & self-belief
9
Motivation
7
Mental health & wellbeing
6
Trying to stay ahead of AI on knowledge is the wrong goal.
True intelligence is creating concepts, not regurgitating facts.
Debt and checkbox education suppress the curiosity that matters most.
AI tools & automation
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Why AI agents still fail at multi-step tasks — and what to do about it
EO
May 4, 2026
AI tools & automation
9
AI strategy & adoption
8
Iteration & feedback loops
6
90% per-step accuracy still means most multi-step workflows fail
Shipping unreliable agents and calling it normal is a choice
Transparency in what agents did builds user trust over time
How Corgi built a two-year moat by becoming the insurance infrastructure
EO
May 1, 2026
Case studies
9
Pivoting
7
Reselling insurance kept them small — so they became the carrier instead.
Two years and $100M+ in licensing built a moat competitors can't afford to copy.
Young founders' real edge is time and energy, not capital.
Paraform's contrarian bet: pay recruiters more, not replace them
EO
April 28, 2026
Case studies
9
Pivoting
8
Product-market fit
6
AI outreach now takes 5,000 contacts to make one hire
Betting on human recruiters — not replacing them — drove 10x revenue
Pivot to the right user came from watching who actually returned
Founder interviews
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From quant trading to building a 24/7 global stock exchange
EO
April 21, 2026
Founder interviews
9
Fundraising & VC
6
HFT extracts billions by exploiting structural flaws, not creating value
Collapsing broker, exchange, and clearing house into one fair platform
Raised $95M valuation pre-revenue by betting on exchange design itself
AI strategy & adoption
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How AI is reshaping career entry and what workers should do
EO
April 16, 2026
AI strategy & adoption
9
Long-term planning
6
Young workers in AI-exposed jobs face 16% slower employment growth.
AI threatens entry-level roles but can't replace strategic thinking or social skills.
Using AI as a learning tool could turn career ladders into career lattices.
AI tools & automation
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Running a full marketing operation solo with 40 AI agents
EO
March 25, 2026
AI tools & automation
9
Growth hacking
7
Productivity & habits
5
40 AI agents replace a $50k/month team for just $500/month
Think Super IC, not intern — AI handles strategy, not just tasks
Stagnation is riskier than uncertainty; build agents or fall behind
How Otter.ai reached 35 million users by betting on voice AI early
EO
March 24, 2026
Case studies
9
AI strategy & adoption
8
Business models
6
Building your own AI tech beats APIs when cost structure determines growth ceiling
Voice will replace keyboards as the primary interface for business intelligence
Betting on behaviour change before it happens is how generational companies are built
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
How to use AI as a thinking partner, not just a task shortcut
EO
March 19, 2026
AI strategy & adoption
9
Deep work & focus
6
Students who probed AI with questions scored as well as those who avoided it entirely
Context is the biggest gap between strong and weak AI users
Effective AI use is now a social skill, not a prompting technique
Founder interviews
YouTube
How Gumloop's founder built a real AI automation business
EO
March 16, 2026
Founder interviews
9
AI strategy & adoption
7
MVP & prototyping
6
AI automation gurus are selling hope, not results — most are lying
Apply AI only to problems you already understand deeply
Getting deported forced Max to build Gumloop — failure created focus
How Meridian is building AI for the world's most-used programming language
EO
March 12, 2026
Case studies
8
AI strategy & adoption
7
No one has spent 1,000 hours testing AI on real financial models — until now
Excel is the most-used programming language on earth, yet AI barely touches it
Domain experts know model outputs are wrong but can't say why — that's the gap
Founder interviews
YouTube
How Legora grew from 3 engineers to a $5.5B legal AI company
EO
March 11, 2026
Founder interviews
9
Product-market fit
7
Hiring & recruitment
6
Legora went from zero to 750 clients by obsessing over lawyer onboarding.
YC unlocked the US market — $1M ARR in six weeks.
The CEO still interviews every single hire at 300 people.
How Yoon found a winning EdTech idea after eight pivots
EO
March 9, 2026
Pivoting
9
Customer discovery
7
Founder interviews
6
A cancer diagnosis at 18 became his startup decision filter
Eight pivots failed for lack of founder-market fit, not market fit
A Figma mockup — never deployed — landed Pensieve's first customer
AI strategy & adoption
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How AI-native organizations build competitive advantage and scale
EO
March 6, 2026
AI strategy & adoption
9
Business models
7
Identity & self-belief
5
AI hurt struggling entrepreneurs and helped high-performers — judgment is everything.
Embed AI in the product, not just workflows, to scale without headcount.
The new strategic edge: allocating intelligence across humans and models.