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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Worldcoin: using iris biometrics to prove humanness in the AI era
EO
April 2, 2024
AI tools & automation
9
Business models
6
Compliance & regulation
5
Why document verification fails — and why irises are the answer
The orb deletes all biometric data on-device; only an iris code leaves
Blockchain makes privacy provable, not just promised
From failed voice app to $1.4B analytics company: lessons from Amplitude's founder
EO
March 31, 2024
Case studies
10
Product-market fit
8
B2B sales
5
Why a 99th-percentile idea matched to founders' skills changes everything
Charging too late cost Amplitude over a year of wasted runway
Each growth stage breaks what worked in the previous one
Hiring & recruitment
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Leadership and hiring lessons from Snowflake's CFO after three IPOs
EO
March 28, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
9
Management
8
Delegation
7
Micromanaging someone means you're about to fire them
Quarterly bonuses force honest feedback that annual ones never do
Title inflation is the most common and damaging startup hiring mistake
Founder interviews
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Elad Gil on building, investing, and scaling from seed to unicorn
EO
March 27, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Long-term planning
8
Fundraising & VC
7
The best investments always look overpriced until they aren't.
You don't need a co-founder, a great idea, or experience to start.
Raise capital only when it genuinely accelerates market capture.
Product-market fit
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How to validate product-market fit before scaling growth
EO
March 21, 2024
Product-market fit
9
Growth hacking
8
Iteration & feedback loops
5
40% 'very disappointed' threshold predicts whether a product can scale
Activation quality drives retention more than any re-engagement tactic
Growth hacking fails when product, marketing, and engineering stay siloed
How PR elevates early-stage startup visibility
EO
March 19, 2024
PR builds earned credibility through media, not paid marketing—focus on top-of-funnel awareness.
Position your founder story around market relevance and growth proof before pitching major outlets.
Build journalist relationships on niche platforms; skip the big guys until you've proven coverage credibility.
How Humanloop pivoted to 60x growth by solving LLM reliability
EO
March 17, 2024
Case studies
8
Pivoting
8
Customer discovery
7
10 paying customers in 2 days validated a pivot in hours
Non-deterministic LLMs break standard software evaluation practices
Product teams can own AI development without engineers as gatekeepers
Founder interviews
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How Endowus built a wealth platform on Singapore's pension system
EO
March 15, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Business models
6
Bootstrapping
5
Why your 'why' matters more than any market prediction
Five engineers, nine months, zero guarantee of government approval
Human fund curation beats AI for wealth management — for now
How Kata.ai built an AI chatbot platform for 200+ enterprises
EO
March 12, 2024
Case studies
10
Pivoting
9
Business models
8
Hyperlocal language data is the moat global AI models cannot replicate
Pivoting from 50 human agents to B2B platform required laying off 90 staff
One viral chatbot with a consumer brand unlocked the entire enterprise pipeline
Product-market fit
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How Clockwise sold to 40,000 companies using product-led growth
EO
March 10, 2024
Product-market fit
8
Growth hacking
7
Pricing strategy
7
Delaying monetization two years created costly signals Clockwise had to unwind later.
Corporate card vs. personal card determines if you're really selling to a business.
Product market fit is continuous — each tier requires proving it again.
Founder interviews
YouTube
Founder intuition, A/B testing, and building Rewind AI
EO
March 5, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Conversion rate optimisation
6
Pivoting
6
Overriding your gut for advisors is a founder's biggest regret
Over-hiring killed Optimizely's momentum after $85M raised
Hearing loss sparked a decade-long quest to give humans perfect memory
Leadership lessons from a CEO with 30 years in enterprise sales
EO
February 29, 2024
Management
9
Communication
7
Why applying one management style across all functions fails
Set context and alignment once — then let great people run
Praise publicly, give hard feedback fast and in private
Selling as a science: core principles from 30 years in enterprise sales
EO
February 27, 2024
B2B sales
9
Business models
6
Management
5
Speak only 30% of the time — buyers reveal everything you need.
Selling is a team sport; orchestrate experts at the right moments.
Product-led growth is still selling — best tech alone never wins.
Founder interviews
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How Vlad Magdalin built Webflow through four failed attempts
EO
February 23, 2024
Founder interviews
10
MVP & prototyping
6
Vision & mission
5
Four failed attempts over a decade before Webflow found traction
A stray trademark certificate triggered the final, successful restart
Revenue is third priority — mission and people come first
Product-market fit
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How to build a profitable product from day one
EO
February 20, 2024
Product-market fit
9
MVP & prototyping
7
Pricing strategy
6
Repeated payment is the only real product-market fit signal.
Ship in three to six months — embarrassment is part of the process.
Charge every user from day one; adjust pricing as value grows.