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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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AI tools & automation

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Why tokens solve the network effect problem Web3 founders face

EO November 11, 2022


AI tools & automation 10
Contracts & agreements 10
MVP & prototyping 10
  • Tokens turn early adopters into owners, solving cold-start
  • Ramper makes crypto wallets invisible to end users
  • Equal risk, unequal upside: always bet on the bigger mission

Fundraising & VC

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Lessons from Silicon Valley: a product manager turned founder

EO November 2, 2022


Fundraising & VC 10
Growth hacking 10
Productivity & habits 10
  • Why being the wrong CEO is the most honest thing you can admit
  • COVID forced ruthless focus — killing every non-essential product launch
  • Red Bull, not Facebook, is the right model for an impulse-driven product

Founder interviews

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Nas Daily: how one creator built 60 million followers in six years

EO October 10, 2022


Founder interviews 10
Growth hacking 7
Resilience & grit 6
  • 270 videos failed before the first one finally worked
  • Pointing the camera at others — not yourself — unlocked growth
  • Personal fame dies with you; build a company that outlasts you

Customer discovery

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Phil Libin on building products, teams, and async communication

EO October 8, 2022


Customer discovery 8
Hiring & recruitment 8
Processes & SOPs 6
  • A two-week observation loop finds problems people already live with
  • Hire for effectiveness first — diverse teams build better products
  • All information transfer should move to recorded, async video

Founder interviews

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How Phil Libin built Evernote to 400 million users

EO September 29, 2022


Founder interviews 10
Product-market fit 7
  • Building for yourself eliminates the hardest startup question: do people want this?
  • Background sync and in-image search were Evernote's two real differentiators
  • Neutrality kills products — strong point of view is what makes them excellent

Founder interviews

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How Enuma built a learning app serving 10 million children worldwide

EO September 18, 2022


Founder interviews 10
Product-market fit 7
Pivoting 6
  • Education built for average learners guarantees half of children will fail
  • Winning XPRIZE taught them cultural blind spots cause more failure than software bugs
  • Pandemic flipped sceptical parents and governments into adopters, 10x-ing revenue

Founder interviews

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Startup lessons from Twitch and Y Combinator with Michael Seibel

EO September 14, 2022


Founder interviews 10
Pivoting 8
Resilience & grit 6
  • Fear makes founders avoid the exact tasks that matter most
  • Twitch survived by adding paywalls two months before running out of money
  • Top VCs refused to invest at half the price Amazon paid for Twitch

Case studies

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How a World Cup footballer co-founded a $600M sustainable shoe brand

EO September 9, 2022


Case studies 10
Business models 8
Product-market fit 6
  • Customers buy great products — sustainability is the method, not the pitch
  • One silhouette, $1M in month one: why radical focus beat conventional wisdom
  • Carbon-labelling every shoe the way food labels calories

Management

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EO: building a global startup media channel from Korea

EO September 1, 2022


Management 10
AI tools & automation 10
Contracts & agreements 8
  • Why EO sells failure stories instead of success secrets
  • Three failed startups led to importing Silicon Valley culture to Korea
  • A plan to make top-tier entrepreneurship education accessible to all

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