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 to unlock B2B growth after product-market fit
EO
July 24, 2023
B2B sales
9
Business operating systems
6
Product-market fit alone won't scale — you need go-to-market fit
A one-page playbook maps pain, wows, and hero outcomes per stage
You feel growth momentum before metrics confirm it
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Blitzscaling in practice: growth stages, transitions, and when to stop
EO
July 21, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
8
Pivoting
8
Culture building
7
Your company is a different company at each order of magnitude
Twitter kept hiring after hitting its user ceiling — a fatal mistake
Downturns widen the gap: competitors retrench, talent gets cheaper
How OpenAI and Airbnb used blitzscaling to win their markets
EO
July 15, 2023
Business models
9
Long-term planning
8
Product-market fit
7
Speed over efficiency is the only play in winner-take-most markets
Launch embarrassingly early — real feedback beats internal intuition
AI creates the perfect blitzscaling conditions: data advantages compound fast
Common mistakes startups make in business plans and go-to-market
EO
July 13, 2023
B2B sales
9
Business models
8
Product-market fit
5
Pain without urgency kills startups — customers must buy now
Product-market fit is not enough; go-to-market fit is the missing link
Heroic founder-led selling never scales; repeatable process does
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Ideas don't matter: execution, failure, and starting young
EO
July 9, 2023
Resilience & grit
9
Founder interviews
8
Vision & mission
6
Everyone has the same idea — only execution creates winners
Failing quietly kills your credibility; transparent failure earns the next check
Your 20s are the lowest-risk time to start — use them
How AI and adult learning will reshape education investment
EO
June 23, 2023
Market research
10
Fundraising & VC
6
AI makes rote skills obsolete — education must pivot to human capabilities
Formal learning ends at 21, but careers now demand upskilling to 100
Udemy proved teachers can earn more and learners pay less via technology
Lessons from losing to TikTok: product-market fit, humility, and team
EO
June 16, 2023
Post-mortems
10
Resilience & grit
7
Product-market fit
6
Product-market fit means nothing when a rival buys the market.
Admitting mistakes openly to your team builds trust, not weakness.
Relationships outlast every startup outcome — protect them.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Creative methods from Pixar and animation studios
EO
June 7, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
8
Iteration & feedback loops
8
Vision & mission
5
Pixar's secret weapon is relentless iteration, not individual brilliance
Humility and openness to notes separates sustainable creators from talented ones
Strong-willed collaborators work best when given freedom, not constant direction
EO hits 100K subscribers: lessons from building a global founder interview channel
EO
June 1, 2023
Case studies
9
Resilience & grit
7
Prospecting & outreach
6
Cold outreach — sent repeatedly — unlocked access to Silicon Valley unicorns
Start small, embrace failure, avoid people who drain your momentum
Join an early-stage startup before trying to build your own
How MarqVision landed LVMH as a customer within three months of launch
EO
May 31, 2023
Case studies
9
Prospecting & outreach
8
Niche selection
6
Counterfeits are a $3T problem traditional legal firms can't solve fast enough
First LVMH brand signed within three months of product launch
One reframe turned a $5B pitch into a $100B IP infrastructure vision
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How Fountain scaled hourly worker hiring to 100 million applicants
EO
May 21, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
8
Pivoting
8
Growth hacking
7
Blue-collar workers were ignored by HR tech — Fountain fixed that.
Each growth stage ($1M, $10M, $50M) demands a completely different skill set.
Enterprise customers hand-held Fountain into 77 countries and 35 languages.
Founder interviews
YouTube
From immigrant student to investor: Manu Kumar's path through entrepreneurship
EO
May 18, 2023
Founder interviews
10
Resilience & grit
7
Bootstrapping
6
Getting into a closed class by living its definition of entrepreneurship
How a Java users group — not pitching — landed the first investors
Starting young means asymmetric upside: failure still teaches, success transforms
AI tools & automation
YouTube
AI hearing aids: how Whisper is rebuilding the worst consumer product
EO
May 9, 2023
AI tools & automation
10
MVP & prototyping
10
Contracts & agreements
10
Traditional hearing aids are so bad people hide them in drawers
AI isolates the speaker's voice from background noise in real time
Be fast rather than right — 15+ hardware versions before launch
From failed e-commerce startup to global auto parts platform
EO
April 27, 2023
Case studies
10
Pivoting
8
Resilience & grit
7
A $1.9 trillion market hiding behind a 'niche' label
Surviving COVID with a 10% chance and zero salary
Why solving a global problem is no harder than a local one
Founder interviews
YouTube
How Frank Slootman built three billion-dollar companies
EO
April 12, 2023
Founder interviews
10
Vision & mission
8
Management
7
Why 'OK' is the enemy of energy in organizations
Narrow, precise missions beat vague ones every time
Failure is the norm — and that's what makes founders