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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AI tools & automation
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Figma's major AI and product updates from ConFig 2024
EO
June 27, 2024
AI tools & automation
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AI strategy & adoption
6
AI auto-generates full UIs, names layers, and wires prototypes.
Figma Slides lets you demo live prototypes inside presentations.
Craft and problem-solving become the designer's edge as AI handles visuals.
Founder interviews
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How Snowflake's co-founder found a $40B killer idea
EO
June 27, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Business models
8
Delegation
5
In the cloud, faster processing costs the same — Snowflake's founding insight
Simplicity is the number one quality of any great product
Give new hires 100% trust from day one or don't hire them
How to disrupt markets by breaking the customer value chain
EO
June 14, 2024
Business models
9
Competitive analysis
5
Steal the one activity customers hate most from incumbents
Three disruption types: remove pain, isolate joy, separate payment
Profitable business models must be tested — value creation doesn't guarantee them
Three lessons for foreign founders building global companies
EO
June 8, 2024
Business models
8
Identity & self-belief
7
Local moats vanish in digital markets — compete globally or die
29 investor rejections reversed once ARR tripled in one summer
High-context culture habits silently sabotage US startup performance
How early lung cancer detection doubled survival rates
EO
June 6, 2024
Case studies
9
MVP & prototyping
8
Niche selection
6
Catching lung cancer small lifts survival from 15% to 90%
GPS-style bronchoscopy navigation made peripheral biopsies safe and routine
Build fast prototypes, validate with doctors before anything else
Founder interviews
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Six years and $1.5M of their own money to build an autonomous floor robot
EO
May 23, 2024
Founder interviews
9
MVP & prototyping
7
Bootstrapping
5
Camera-only sensors cut complexity — more sensors multiply failure points exponentially
A prior Google acquisition taught them cool tech without a real problem is just a feature
Market risk, not technology risk, is what kills hardware startups
How Zipline reached 1 million autonomous drone deliveries
EO
May 20, 2024
Case studies
10
Customer discovery
7
Pick a weird problem before anyone else is paying attention
Hardware's difficulty is also its moat — most future giants will be hardware companies
Rwanda's Minister cut the pitch short: 'Just do blood' — one opening, first contract
Founder interviews
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What Filip Kaliszan learned building Verkada to $3.5B
EO
May 9, 2024
Founder interviews
10
MVP & prototyping
6
Culture building
6
Limited runway forced an early launch that rewrote the product roadmap.
Each new product line runs as an isolated, self-sufficient pod.
Past 50 people, leaders must actively communicate who they are.
Lessons from a lifelong software engineer scaling food delivery globally
EO
April 30, 2024
Management
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Customer discovery
7
Resilience & grit
6
Your team copies your behavior, not your words
Define the customer problem before jumping to solutions
Frame technical debt by when it will hurt the business
Founder interviews
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Building high-value AI startups fast: lessons from three companies
EO
April 28, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Pivoting
9
Fundraising & VC
7
Deadlines — not talent — are the only reliable forcing function for progress
Raising too much money too early kills startup discipline
AI startups only win with real differentiation, not GPT wrappers
Founder interviews
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How DoNotPay grew to $230M valuation with seven employees
EO
April 25, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Pitching investors
7
AI strategy & adoption
5
19 VC rejections reversed by three specific pitch changes
Seven employees, $230M valuation — lean beats headcount
AI lies; DoNotPay uses a second AI to police the first
Founder interviews
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From sneaker marketplace to 4X growth: building Krepling
EO
April 16, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Customer discovery
7
Pricing strategy
7
65% of customers churned the moment Krepling started charging
No-code infrastructure cuts five merchant tools down to one
Founder still personally manages 15 customer accounts at 4X growth
Founder interviews
YouTube
Dropping out of Yale for a startup: Dawson Chen's journey to Martin AI
EO
April 12, 2024
Founder interviews
10
MVP & prototyping
7
Pivoting
6
YC acceptance gave him permission to skip the line entirely
Young founders compound startup experience faster than corporate peers
Building an AI butler that knows 95% of what you want unsaid
How TomoCredit built a credit system for immigrants from scratch
EO
April 9, 2024
Case studies
10
Fundraising & VC
6
Immigrants start with zero credit age — a structural trap, not a risk signal
10,000 day-one sign-ups with no paid marketing until year five
Banks never move first; someone had to risk their own money to prove the model
Founder interviews
YouTube
From Korean adoptee to French minister and venture capitalist
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April 4, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Entering elite French institutions from a working-class, immigrant background
How being fired from government became the catalyst for Korelya Capital
Build networks by being yourself, not by treating people as instruments