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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Leadership lessons from a unicorn startup's early employee
EO
April 7, 2023
Delegation
9
Management
8
Identity & self-belief
5
Why course-correcting fast can save your startup from failure
Leaders who do the hardest jobs earn 120% effort from teams
Employee happiness is a direct driver of customer happiness
Founder interviews
YouTube
From Wall Street to Unicorn: Jina Kim's Leap into Silicon Valley
EO
March 30, 2023
Founder interviews
10
Bootstrapping
6
Why a six-figure Wall Street career is still the wrong job
Joining as employee #4 means owning everything, including lunch orders
Stock options grew 200x — but only if you actually exercise them
How Tome built the fastest productivity tool to reach 1M users
EO
March 19, 2023
Origin stories
8
Product-market fit
7
Vision & mission
6
LLMs can generate story structure because most narratives follow the same arc
Reid Hoffman's network-effects principle turned Tome viral, not just useful
Knowledge workers will become directors, not creators, in the AI era
Lessons from 1,000 startup investments: what Plug and Play learned
EO
March 6, 2023
Case studies
10
Fundraising & VC
7
Hiring & recruitment
6
After 1,000 investments, people matter more than the idea
Failure pattern-matching beats success stories as an investor edge
Missed Airbnb at $2M valuation — a $200M lesson in risk aversion
Teaching AI thinking and design thinking for the age of AI
EO
March 2, 2023
Design thinking
9
AI strategy & adoption
7
Business models
5
Zero-to-one innovation is the one thing AI cannot replace humans at
AlphaFold solved in two years what humans achieved in decades
Stanford's design thinking gives anyone a repeatable path to innovation
How IYUNO became the world's largest media localization company
EO
February 22, 2023
Case studies
10
Pivoting
8
Automation & tools
7
Losing 50% of revenue for missing a funeral forced a global pivot
Win with a vendor first, then build your own office — repeatedly
Repetition is the only fix when vision fails to land across cultures
Customer discovery
YouTube
How Speak built an AI English tutor and became Korea's top education app
EO
February 15, 2023
Customer discovery
9
Case studies
8
AI tools & automation
7
Going in-person to watch users unlocked product-market fit in Korea
A commute-mode hack built daily habits that drove retention past 50% on day 30
Off-the-shelf speech recognition seeded the data flywheel that powers their custom AI
How Notion's cofounders built a productivity platform through nine years of iteration
EO
February 14, 2023
Origin stories
10
Pivoting
8
Notion spent years building the wrong product before a full rewrite saved it
Relocating to Kyoto with a skeleton crew was the reset that unlocked growth
Ship early, solve real problems — distribution matters as much as the product
Founder interviews
YouTube
Four lessons for early-stage founders from a unicorn CEO
EO
February 7, 2023
Founder interviews
9
Hiring & recruitment
7
Niche selection
6
Why hiring B-players after raising capital kills companies
The one question that matters more than your idea: why now?
Near-failure moments are where founders grow the most
Founder interviews
YouTube
How Tim Hwang built FiscalNote from a Motel 6 to a billion-dollar IPO
EO
February 2, 2023
Founder interviews
10
Prospecting & outreach
6
Resilience & grit
5
Cold-called hundreds of companies from a spreadsheet before writing a line of code
Emailed Mark Cuban from a Google search; got a $740k reply in 45 minutes
Being an outsider meant expecting to work 10x harder — and doing it
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Career advice for non-linear paths in tech
EO
December 21, 2022
Productivity & habits
8
Goal setting
6
Niche selection
5
A messy career path can compound into a unique, hard-to-copy edge
Ask for 20 minutes, not a mentor — relationships build before requests
Productivity means fewer tasks, not more — 60% of work time is wasted
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
How Business Canvas raised $5.5M before having a product
EO
December 12, 2022
MVP & prototyping
8
Fundraising & VC
8
Culture building
7
Closed a seed round with only a 120-page pitch deck, no prototype.
100 lifetime passes at $100 each sold out in three hours on Product Hunt.
Daily investor messages for six months before opening the round.
Founder interviews
YouTube
Entrepreneur advice from Noom's CEO: mission, discipline, and growth by decade
EO
December 7, 2022
Founder interviews
10
Identity & self-belief
9
Vision & mission
7
If you can't answer 'why you', don't start the company
Every successful person Jeong met is disciplined for the long term
What to focus on in your teens, 20s, and 30s
Founder interviews
YouTube
Noom founder Saeju Jeong on eight years without revenue
EO
December 4, 2022
Founder interviews
10
Identity & self-belief
8
Resilience & grit
7
Eight years of no revenue before Noom found product-market fit
Self-doubt is the hardest barrier — vulnerability beats false confidence
Luck only comes to founders who stay on one path long enough
How Deel became the fastest-growing SaaS company in history
EO
November 18, 2022
Case studies
10
Pivoting
8
Business models
7
$1M to $100M ARR in 20 months — without a physical office
Targeting freelancers failed; selling to their employers unlocked growth
COVID forced Fortune 1000 companies to Deel — timing was everything