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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Founder interviews
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Aven's $2.2B playbook: conviction, talent, and rational leadership
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September 9, 2025
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Hiring & recruitment
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Management
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Credit card interest rates haven't moved in 50 years — Aven is fixing that
The talent gap between 99th and 95th percentile engineers is enormous
Pros and cons lists are useless; prioritised axes make better decisions
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How GitHub's head of design built a beloved developer tool
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September 8, 2025
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Iteration & feedback loops
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Shipping Dark Mode blind — no user feedback, just mined signals from fan-made themes
Constraints within a design system free teams for harder, more creative problems
Core design skills — empathy, storytelling, ambiguity — still win in the AI era
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How a 22-year-old raised $21M to automate enterprise workflows with AI
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August 29, 2025
Founder interviews
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AI tools & automation
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MVP & prototyping
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Enterprises trust a startup with critical ops if you never go down
Sell before you build — YC's most counterintuitive and effective lesson
Finance's probabilistic thinking makes startup decisions less emotional
Prompt engineering
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Five techniques to unlock AI's full potential as a thinking partner
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August 27, 2025
Prompt engineering
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AI tools & automation
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Communication
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AI is programmed to agree — here's how to override that.
One extra sentence forces AI to reason before it answers.
Role-play difficult conversations with AI before they happen.
Founder interviews
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How a Yale student raised $3.1M in 14 days for an AI social network
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August 25, 2025
Founder interviews
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Fundraising & VC
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Growth hacking
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AI agents make warm introductions — no follower counts, no vanity metrics
Raised $3.1M by framing Series as creating a new market, not competing
Staying enrolled at Yale became a marketing advantage, not a handicap
Identity & self-belief
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Thinking, empathy, and human value in the AI era
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August 16, 2025
Identity & self-belief
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AI strategy & adoption
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Business models
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AI can already match human creativity — caring about others is the real edge.
Using AI to write for you is exercise without moving; the skill atrophies.
A program pairing math-star teens with actor coaches scales critical thinking nationally.
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Lessons from 30 years building technology in Silicon Valley
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August 15, 2025
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Community building
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AI strategy & adoption
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Why the value you're building can block you from building it
Choose your co-founders before you choose your business idea
Zero basing: rebuild your company from scratch using AI, not from it
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Building humanoid robots for the home: 1X's decade-long bet
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August 14, 2025
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Business models
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MVP & prototyping
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Industrial robot design is fundamentally unsafe outside a calibrated factory
Consumer adoption, not enterprise, is the only fast path to scale
Tendon-drive systems let robots learn safely through real-world trial and error
Customer discovery
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How two outsiders found a $10M+ opportunity in insurance with AI
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August 7, 2025
Customer discovery
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Niche selection
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AI strategy & adoption
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Solving your own problems as a founder saturates markets with tech-industry solutions.
Outsider curiosity about workflows beat domain expertise in winning early customers.
Reimagining processes from scratch beats automating existing complexity with AI.
How fal built a $1.5B AI inference platform for generative media
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July 31, 2025
Case studies
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Niche selection
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AI strategy & adoption
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Staying narrow on image/video inference compounded into $90M ARR
Latency kills developer creativity — 2-3x speed gains are product value
The ChatGPT moment for video hasn't happened yet, but it's close
Founder interviews
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Building a $4B AI video company before the AI hype cycle
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July 27, 2025
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Product-market fit
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Pivoting
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Users compared AI avatars to text docs, not cameras — that changed everything
Viral sign-ups are noise; the acid test is who screams if you shut down
Hungry underdogs consistently outperform brand-name hires from big tech
A 13-year-old built a general AI agent from scratch
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July 12, 2025
Origin stories
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AI tools & automation
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Browser automation for everyday tasks is a gap nobody is filling
Built alone after every developer he approached said no
Age opened doors — and made earning trust nearly impossible
Long-term planning
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How Lindy 5X'd revenue by building for the next generation of AI models
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July 6, 2025
Long-term planning
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Founder interviews
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Management
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A broken product today becomes excellent when the next model generation ships.
Never build a mine until you've struck gold — scale kills pivots.
Micromanagement is an obligation, not a flaw: your taste is why you're in the seat.
How Julius AI reached 2 million users by staying focused
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July 3, 2025
Niche selection
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Iteration & feedback loops
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Growth hacking
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Narrow focus on one job beats general-purpose AI tools every time
Losing your main growth channel overnight forces better acquisition thinking
Build sharing into the product and users become your sales team
How Windsurf grew to $1.3B by pivoting fast and betting on future tech
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June 30, 2025
Pivoting
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Product-market fit
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Hiring & recruitment
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Pivoting overnight — twice — turned a $2M business into a $1.3B company
Build for where technology will be, not where it is today
True product-market fit is obvious; staying paranoid is what preserves it