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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How Kopi Kenangan built a $270M coffee chain from a small-format model
EO
October 13, 2023
Business models
10
Niche selection
8
Case studies
7
A latte cost 30% of daily income in Indonesia — the gap no one filled.
Tiny stores next to Starbucks outperformed and attracted $270M in funding.
COVID tripled outlet count after the CEO took a Rp. 1 salary.
Technology is a motor, not a driver: how startups disrupt with customer focus
EO
October 5, 2023
Business models
9
Customer discovery
6
Netflix didn't invent streaming — it just knew where customers were unhappy.
Decoupling one weak link in the customer journey beats building a better product.
Technology only disrupts when customers choose to adopt it — not before.
Business operating systems
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A three-step problem-solving framework for startup founders
EO
September 26, 2023
Business operating systems
9
Customer discovery
7
Niche selection
5
Most founders solve symptoms, not root causes — fix the definition first.
Break massive solution sets down to make them actually manageable.
Each stakeholder has one North Star metric; guess wrong and you lose them.
Why startups fail: lessons from 26 years of Harvard research
EO
September 22, 2023
Pivoting
8
Resilience & grit
7
Customer discovery
6
Skipping customer discovery wastes months; four weeks saves four months.
Early adopter signals can be false positives masking mainstream product failure.
Blame deflection is more dangerous than self-blame — it repeats mistakes.
MVP & prototyping
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How Gamma grew to millions of users by solving a problem first
EO
September 16, 2023
MVP & prototyping
9
Case studies
8
Pivoting
6
AI collapsed a one-hour activation barrier into one minute
Manual Stripe payment links validated willingness to pay in under an hour
Start with the problem — resist building AI in search of one
Founder interviews
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Life lessons from poverty and tragedy to tech leadership
EO
September 12, 2023
Founder interviews
10
Resilience & grit
8
Delegation
5
Childhood tragedy and extreme poverty shaped a tech leadership career.
Hard times are stepping stones, not tombstones — seasons always pass.
Gratitude, intentionality, and small-task faithfulness unlock bigger opportunities.
Founder interviews
YouTube
How Tim Huang built a $1.4B legal intelligence company from a motel room
EO
September 8, 2023
Founder interviews
9
Fundraising & VC
7
Prospecting & outreach
6
Cold-emailing Mark Cuban from a Motel 6 funded the entire seed round.
Pick a macro trend that gets more true every year, not less.
Hiring B-players after raising is the fastest path to failure.
How Golden Gate Ventures times Southeast Asia startup investments
EO
August 28, 2023
Market research
10
Niche selection
9
Cash flow management
6
Multiple founders pitching the same idea signals market timing is right
Use China's historical data to predict Southeast Asia's next hot verticals
Cut costs 12 months early — waiting until 30 days of cash is fatal
Bobobox: building a modular capsule hotel startup and surviving COVID
EO
August 25, 2023
Case studies
10
Pivoting
7
Business models
5
Modular pods eliminated the Capex barrier blocking capsule hotel growth
COVID pivot to forest cabins matched two years of pod revenue in weeks
Refusing to lay off staff during the crisis built the culture that saved the company
Product-market fit
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Five principles startup CEOs must master to avoid failure
EO
August 18, 2023
Product-market fit
9
Culture building
8
Vision & mission
6
Talk to three to five customers every day, not monthly.
Culture is collective habit — it cannot be declared, only shaped.
The CEO's job is exactly three things: strategy, team, resources.
Product-market fit
YouTube
Building a healthcare benefits data platform from scratch
EO
August 16, 2023
Product-market fit
9
Culture building
8
B2B sales
7
Product market fit only exists when customers drag you in
Artemis replaced weeks-long analyst bottlenecks with instant self-service
Culture becomes the only real lever once you hire an exec team
Blitzscaling: prioritising speed over efficiency to win winner-take-most markets
EO
August 10, 2023
Business models
9
Long-term planning
7
Fundraising & VC
5
In winner-take-most markets, slower competitors lose regardless of execution quality.
Launch embarrassing products early — real user feedback beats founder intuition.
AI creates new winner-take-most dynamics that reward blitzscaling more than ever.
Long-term planning
YouTube
How exponential technology is outpacing human intuition and corporate strategy
EO
August 3, 2023
Long-term planning
9
Business operating systems
7
Goal setting
5
S&P 500 company lifespan has collapsed from 60 years to 12
Being 3–8 years early is a feature, not a flaw — technology catches up
Solve one problem you're passionate about; forget building an empire
Founder interviews
YouTube
How a serial investor built seven global funds by staying curious and saying yes
EO
July 31, 2023
Founder interviews
10
Fundraising & VC
7
Resilience & grit
6
First-generation founders need capital and mentors, not just knowledge
Portfolio diversification across 30-40 bets is how VC risk actually works
Overthinking kills action — commit first, figure it out as you go
Founder interviews
YouTube
How embracing failure and diverse experience builds legendary founders
EO
July 29, 2023
Founder interviews
9
Resilience & grit
7
Management
5
Succeeding teaches you nothing — failure is the only real teacher.
StartX refused to help founders; that refusal was the most valuable support.
Know what you're world class at before building anything.