EO
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Content marketing
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Growing an AI newsletter to 2 million subscribers in two years
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November 25, 2025
Content marketing
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AI tools & automation
7
Social media
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Human-written content builds trust AI-generated newsletters never can
Verticalized content niches are blue ocean — nobody has claimed them yet
Three daily habits to build real AI intuition at work
Founder interviews
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Building scientific AGI to accelerate materials discovery
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November 21, 2025
Founder interviews
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AI strategy & adoption
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Vision & mission
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Materials R&D is 10+ years per discovery — AI can compress this dramatically
Inverse design: start from hard problems, let AI engineer the material backwards
The 51% rule: make decisions at 51% confidence rather than debate indefinitely
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How Godard Abel built G2 after nearly losing his first startup
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November 17, 2025
Founder interviews
10
Product-market fit
7
Bootstrapping
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Spending before product-market fit burned $19M of $20M raised
G2 took five years to reach $5M ARR, then 10x'd in four
Emotional fortitude outlasts intellect as the founder's real edge
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From Miami dunker to AI agent founder: Nico Christie's path to Shortcut
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November 16, 2025
Founder interviews
10
Pivoting
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Getting from 95th to 98th percentile is where all real value is created.
Shortcut's launch hit 18M+ views by showing use cases, not investor names.
Fundamental's roadmap from games to digital humans was set before Shortcut existed.
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How Vishal Virani built Rocket from zero to half a million users in 16 weeks
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November 14, 2025
Founder interviews
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Pivoting
7
Fundraising & VC
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40+ VC rejections with 15 days of cash left — he didn't quit
Cursor beat GitHub Copilot: great product beats infinite resources
Pivoted from Figma-to-code to full AI dev platform the day GPT-3 launched
Identity & self-belief
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What early-stage startups demand that big companies never taught you
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November 7, 2025
Identity & self-belief
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Business models
7
AI strategy & adoption
6
Large-company habits kill startup careers — hustle looks completely different here.
Articul8 was built from two consecutive project failures at Intel.
Skip POCs entirely — production pilots close in 8 weeks, POCs never ship.
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From research physicist to building a $2.1B superintelligence startup
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November 5, 2025
Founder interviews
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Vision & mission
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Autonomous coding is the same problem as superintelligence — not just for engineers.
Simple ideas with extreme craft beat complex algorithms at scale.
Picking the right question matters more than executing the answer well.
How to find $100M+ startup ideas using founder-market fit
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November 1, 2025
Niche selection
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AI strategy & adoption
7
Product-market fit
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10x clinical capacity beats a 20% efficiency gain every time
The best ideas sit where two deep domains intersect
AI pushes diagnostic limits; physicians guarantee the patient never bears the risk
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How Lucy Guo built two startups and became a billionaire before 30
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October 30, 2025
Founder interviews
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Productivity & habits
6
Hiring & recruitment
5
Left college one year from graduation — and why the math made sense
Ship at 90% with no user research, then double down on traction
Creator marketing is replacing ads; unicorn creators are next
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How an Indian immigrant with no industry background raised $25M in insurance AI
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October 28, 2025
Founder interviews
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Prospecting & outreach
7
Niche selection
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No industry background forced genuine first-principles thinking on every workflow
Three rules for picking a vertical: unstructured data, labor shortage, shrinking margins
Personalised outbound and in-person dinners beat portals and mass email
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How Cinder is building trust and safety infrastructure for the AI era
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October 19, 2025
Founder interviews
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Pivoting
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A teenager with a laptop can now do what only nation-states could four years ago.
Cinder pivoted after building the wrong product — customers wanted operations, not threat intel.
Without safety infrastructure keeping pace with AI, regulation will halt innovation instead.
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How Michael Chime built and sold Prepared, an AI for 911 dispatch
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October 16, 2025
Founder interviews
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Pivoting
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Iteration & feedback loops
6
Giving the product free to 1,000 cities cracked government procurement
911 centers still use landline-era technology — operators type notes by hand
Founders fail by staying in their last job instead of their next one
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How EliseAI survived 100 rejections to reach $2.2B
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October 2, 2025
Founder interviews
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Hiring & recruitment
6
Business models
5
Worked a front desk job before building — to learn the real problem
100 VC rejections; cash constraints forced better prioritisation, not excuses
Specialist hiring in 2021 nearly killed momentum — generalists rebuilt it
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How Magic Labs made crypto wallets accessible to 50 million users
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September 28, 2025
Founder interviews
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Product-market fit
6
AI strategy & adoption
5
Email login replaces seed phrases — non-custodial security without the friction
Survived a bear market and one-month runway with no pivoting off mission
Newton Protocol lets AI agents spend crypto inside guardrails you set
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Investors don't make your product better: lessons from building AssemblyAI
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September 13, 2025
Founder interviews
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Customer discovery
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Niche selection
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Raising capital changes nothing — you still make everything happen.
Ask customers what they hate about your product, not what they like.
Narrow focus beats general-purpose: win by optimising for specific use cases.