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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How Cambly reached 150 countries by fixing unit economics and telling the story
EO
February 18, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Unit economics
7
Communication
6
Raising prices in one week saved the company from running out of cash
Full transparency with the team aligned everyone faster than any directive
1.5 billion English learners — Cambly has barely scratched the surface
Productivity & habits
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How top engineers manage time: Matt Martin on Clockwise
EO
February 13, 2024
Productivity & habits
7
Origin stories
7
Automation & tools
5
Without intentional weekly planning, others will consume your time by default
Unregulated shared time is an economic tragedy — Clockwise acts as the regulator
Viral-within-org growth: one user seeds a team, value compounds as teammates join
Philip Morris International's bet on a smoke-free future
EO
February 7, 2024
Pivoting
9
Management
7
Long-term planning
5
PMI predicts cigarettes will vanish within 10 years
IQOS already converted 20 million smokers away from combustion
Acting on 60–70% conviction, not certainty, drives transformation
How Cupbop rebuilt after a cofounder betrayal and scaled to $100M
EO
February 4, 2024
Case studies
10
Processes & SOPs
6
Why 'don't trust people, trust the system' saved Cupbop
Shark Tank with Mark Cuban locked in first-mover status
A dishwasher became a district leader — no ceiling hiring
How Cristina Cordova built a career from Stripe to Linear COO
EO
February 2, 2024
Case studies
10
Prospecting & outreach
7
Niche selection
6
Leaving Google right after graduation led to a better career
Bet on small partners growing fast — Shopify proved the point
Linear grew to product-market fit spending under $35k on marketing
Customer discovery
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Founding an AI startup: five lessons from a $200M exit
EO
January 31, 2024
Customer discovery
9
Prospecting & outreach
7
Founder interviews
6
Customers don't care about AI — only about getting the job done.
How to narrow a list of pains down to one hair-on-fire problem.
Raising on AI hype alone gives you two years before the gap shows.
Founder interviews
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How Philz Coffee grew from one store to 80 on culture and instinct
EO
January 26, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Culture building
7
Hiring & recruitment
5
Palestinian hospitality — not coffee — is Philz's actual product.
Quality collapsed past 10 stores until first-principles thinking fixed it.
Avoiding stupid decisions beats seeking brilliance, per Charlie Munger.
Founder interviews
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From war survivor to AI fintech founder: Naré Vardanyan of Ntropy
EO
January 23, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Pivoting
7
Resilience & grit
6
Why bank transaction data is still unreadable — and how AI fixes it
Going horizontal too early almost killed Ntropy's growth
Discovering pregnancy two days after closing a seed round
How Kalshi won US government approval for event trading
EO
January 21, 2024
Pivoting
8
Case studies
8
Fundraising & VC
5
All trading is event-driven — Kalshi just makes it direct
Called 65 lawyers, all said no; stubbornness beat them all
2x the effort can yield 10–100x the outcome
Founder interviews
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How Sid Yadav built Circle from immigrant blogger to $250M founder
EO
January 20, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Customer discovery
7
Identity & self-belief
5
Zero to $1M ARR in three months with 1,000 founder-led demos
The disjointed community problem that made Circle's market obvious
Why curiosity — not passion — is the right place to start
Founder interviews
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How Perplexity AI built a conversational answer engine from zero to unicorn
EO
January 17, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Product-market fit
8
AI strategy & adoption
7
Citations on every answer replace links with trusted, direct responses
Pricing at ChatGPT's level deliberately filters out subsidy-driven signups
Orchestrating search, retrieval and summarisation is hard for any company
How Chartmetric grew to $7M ARR by focusing on long-term product depth
EO
January 15, 2024
Case studies
9
Pricing strategy
7
Retention & loyalty
6
First $950 payment came from a customer who prepaid to help the founder
Price at half competitors' rate early — differentiation comes later
Nothing important can be built in under 10 years
How to evaluate, filter, and fund startup ideas that actually work
EO
January 12, 2024
Bootstrapping
8
Business models
7
Pitching investors
6
Three-tier idea filter tells you when to discard, park, or execute
Diluting your company too early is how founders lose their own exits
Match funding model to company type — not every startup needs VC
How a co-founder coup nearly destroyed a $100M food brand
EO
December 30, 2023
Post-mortems
9
Business models
6
Minority shareholders staged a legal coup to oust the founding CEO
Ownership stake does not equal operational authority — conflating them kills growth
Misaligned vision on dividends vs. reinvestment breaks co-founder partnerships
Founder interviews
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How early Facebook and Dropbox shaped one founder's approach to risk and growth
EO
December 28, 2023
Founder interviews
9
Delegation
6
You don't need to know how — you need to start building
Facebook's 'move fast' and Dropbox's 'sweat details' demand opposite cultures
SPC helps founders find the right mountain before they start climbing