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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AI strategy & adoption
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From writing code to managing agents: what AI-native engineers need
EO
February 26, 2026
AI strategy & adoption
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AI tools & automation
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Management
5
Managing agents well puts you in the top 0.1% of AI users today
Junior engineers adopt AI-native skills faster than resistant seniors
Your codebase must be airtight before agents touch it — errors compound
Founder interviews
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Navy leadership and autonomy: how a veteran built a $450M defense startup
EO
February 24, 2026
Founder interviews
9
Management
7
Niche selection
5
China's shipbuilding capacity is 230x the US — so compete on software instead
Deck plate leadership: earn trust by troubleshooting alongside your team
Bad news never improves with time — surface it fast or it kills startups
AI strategy & adoption
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How trust networks and genuine curiosity create opportunity in the AI era
EO
February 22, 2026
AI strategy & adoption
8
Identity & self-belief
7
Niche selection
5
The one trait AI and robots cannot replicate: visible human trustworthiness
Rural and developing-world talent is untapped — the bottleneck is trust, not ability
Credential-chasing is a trap; curiosity and flexibility are the durable edge
Founder interviews
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LayerZero: building blockchain's internet layer from first principles
EO
February 11, 2026
Founder interviews
10
Fundraising & VC
5
Connecting all blockchains the way TCP/IP connected isolated computers.
$38 billion processed in one month — 5.5x Western Union's volume.
No pedigree, no Stanford: first founders with both a16z and Sequoia co-leading.
Identity & self-belief
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Thinking, language, and human value in the age of AI
EO
February 3, 2026
Identity & self-belief
8
AI strategy & adoption
7
Deep work & focus
5
Using AI for schoolwork is cognitive atrophy, not efficiency.
The one durable human edge: authentically creating value for others.
Fluency in language matters more now, not less — here's why.
Founder interviews
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How Richard Socher built You.com into a $1.5B AI search company
EO
January 22, 2026
Founder interviews
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AI strategy & adoption
7
Pivoting
6
Accurate AI requires search infrastructure, not just better models
You.com pivoted from consumer search to B2B API — and revenue followed
Prompt engineering was invented at Salesforce, then given away in a paper
Founder interviews
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How Intercom shut off $60M in revenue and rebuilt for the AI era
EO
January 19, 2026
Founder interviews
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Pivoting
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AI strategy & adoption
6
Deliberately killing $60M in revenue to force a real AI pivot
Why 'doing kind of okay' is the most dangerous position in AI disruption
Founder authority — not consensus — is the only engine of genuine reinvention
Product-market fit
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How to build a product that achieves product-market fit from day one
EO
January 14, 2026
Product-market fit
9
Customer discovery
8
Iteration & feedback loops
7
Granola had PMF on day one — and took six months to notice.
Cut 50% of your product before launch while you still can.
Ignore all positive user feedback; only act on clear problems.
Founder interviews
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How a 26-year-old raised $108M by solving an urgent problem
EO
December 23, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Product-market fit
8
Pivoting
7
They killed a product customers liked because urgency was missing
A public playground closed deals with trillion-dollar enterprises
Investor fit matters more than firm brand — pick the partner, not the logo
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
How a 24-year-old raised $64M to build an AI mathematician
EO
December 21, 2025
AI strategy & adoption
8
Founder interviews
7
AI mathematicians could compress centuries of discovery into years
Quant research at $5/hour unlocks markets previously too small to study
Mathematical taste and intuition remain the frontier AI must learn
Founder interviews
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How an 18-year-old high school dropout raised $6.2M
EO
December 19, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Prospecting & outreach
7
Chasing Paul Graham's car turned into a pre-seed investment.
Going to users' homes daily drove $11k MRR in four weeks.
Two months of follow-up emails landed a Stanford VC internship.
AI strategy & adoption
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How great tech leaders identify and scale transformative technology
EO
December 16, 2025
AI strategy & adoption
8
Business models
6
Three questions separate breakthrough technologies from dead ends
The gap between 'working' and 'obviously useful' is where opportunity lives
Clean energy is the upstream constraint on every major global problem
Founder interviews
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How 25 years of serial entrepreneurship taught Matt Hagger to embrace failure
EO
December 13, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Resilience & grit
7
Being early can make you an R&D lab for better-timed rivals.
Failure is feedback — the kindergarten mindset keeps you returning.
Creativity genius drops from 98% at age five to 2% by thirty.
Long-term planning
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How to scale a startup from feature to business
EO
December 11, 2025
Long-term planning
9
Product-market fit
7
Retention & loyalty
6
If existing customers aren't paying you more, you're only hunting.
Product-market fit breaks at every revenue threshold — plan ahead.
Inertia, not competitors, is your biggest enemy inside and outside.
AI strategy & adoption
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What 100 AI leaders say will win in the next era of AI products
EO
November 29, 2025
AI strategy & adoption
9
Product-market fit
7
User research
5
Build from technology capabilities first, not customer needs alone.
AI foundation models are commoditising — great UX is the differentiator.
The winning experience makes users feel seen, before they even ask.