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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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Product-market fit
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How Figma's CPO thinks about product, design, and building things people love
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December 15, 2023
Product-market fit
9
Vision & mission
7
Communication
5
A PM's core job is storytelling, not shipping features
Ask 'why' five times before building what users request
The best products come from teams proud of their work, not metrics
Founder interviews
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College dropout builds $2.5M ARR AI startup while fighting thyroid cancer
EO
December 13, 2023
Founder interviews
10
Customer discovery
7
Bootstrapping
6
Eight years of failed startups before a single viral tweet changed everything
Surgery for thyroid cancer arrived right as the company finally hit growth
Talking to users beats raising money — give the product away to learn faster
Founder interviews
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Mick Johnson on mentoring PMs and building great products
EO
December 10, 2023
Founder interviews
9
Management
8
Resilience & grit
6
Ship quality beats ship speed — no one remembers how long it took
Early-career PMs fail by optimising for capability, not choice
Curate your work life with small changes before making big ones
Teaching people to think, not just to do: Po-Shen Loh on creative education
EO
December 8, 2023
Case studies
9
Business models
8
Design thinking
6
AI answers questions; the scarce skill is judging whether they're correct.
A win-win-win ecosystem pairs math students, high schoolers, and drama graduates.
The goal: make students not need any class ever again, as fast as possible.
Founder interviews
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The long, unglamorous road to startup product-market fit
EO
December 6, 2023
Founder interviews
10
Product-market fit
7
Pivoting
6
Runway's first product hypothesis was wrong — they rebuilt from scratch
COVID layoffs exposed why everyone needs to understand business finances
Even Figma's early team thought they wouldn't make it
When your company outgrows you: leading through startup growth stages
EO
December 3, 2023
Management
9
Business operating systems
6
Resilience & grit
5
Yesterday's superstar exec becomes a liability when the role evolves.
CEO must evolve from Captain America to Professor Xavier as company scales.
Give struggling leaders 90 days to change — then make the call.
Founder interviews
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How a teenage founder built two companies by ignoring conventional wisdom
EO
November 30, 2023
Founder interviews
8
Cash flow management
7
Resilience & grit
6
Waiting until you're 'ready' is the costliest startup mistake
Six months of ignored investor updates turned a 'no' into a yes
Startups leave real money idle — Vesto automates the fix
Objection handling
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Negotiation as problem solving, not winning and losing
EO
November 27, 2023
Objection handling
8
Relationships & family
6
Treating negotiation as win-lose triggers fear and worse outcomes
A 'no' gives you more useful information than a poorly understood 'yes'
Sharing more information — not less — is what solves problems faster
Founder interviews
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How Linear built a $400M product tool with zero marketing
EO
November 18, 2023
Founder interviews
10
Product-market fit
8
Niche selection
8
Engineers avoiding your tool means the whole company loses ground
Local-first architecture made every action feel instant — no compromises
Under $35K in marketing spend; growth was entirely word of mouth
Founder interviews
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Building GlossGenius: From Bootstrapped MVP to $500M company
EO
November 16, 2023
Founder interviews
10
Bootstrapping
8
Business models
6
Raise institutional capital only after unit economics are proven
Build the MVP yourself — being the builder makes you the fastest feedback loop
What customers don't love is more useful than what they do
Founder interviews
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How Samir Vasavada built a $1B fintech startup by age 23
EO
November 4, 2023
Founder interviews
10
Hiring & recruitment
7
Culture building
6
Why dropping out at 16 was less risky than staying in school
Scaling to $1B in 18 months then having to gut the culture
Top 20% of performers drive 80% of results — cut the rest
Loom's road to a $975 million acquisition: lessons from two pivots
EO
October 27, 2023
Case studies
9
Product-market fit
8
Pivoting
7
Loom's real use case was discovered by accident, not design
74 investor rejections before finding product-market fit
COVID took Loom from 2.5M to 10M users in nine months
Founder interviews
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Two engineers build the world's largest cannabis distributor
EO
October 26, 2023
Founder interviews
10
Business models
8
Fundraising & VC
6
Controlling physical delivery infrastructure creates a moat banks and VCs feared to touch
Weekly delivery volume doubled repeatedly — proof of fit before any outside capital
Background irrelevance: Harvard engineers with zero cannabis experience built the category leader
Founder interviews
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Startup failure as personal growth: lessons from two failed ventures
EO
October 24, 2023
Founder interviews
9
Resilience & grit
8
Identity & self-belief
6
Startups are bad financial bets but unmatched for self-discovery.
Big tech founders systematically underestimate go-to-market strategy.
Rejection from 40 VCs reveals resilience you didn't know you had.
Productivity & habits
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Four PM growth lessons from a Silicon Valley mentor
EO
October 18, 2023
Judge yourself by what you choose to do, not what you can do.
Go straight at the hardest thing you've been avoiding.
Small deliberate tweaks to your calendar beat a career change for burnout.