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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Pitching investors
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AI dynamic pricing for car rental: RickSalto's pitch and investor feedback
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April 28, 2025
Pitching investors
9
AI tools & automation
7
Pricing strategy
6
Manual pricing across hundreds of variables guarantees errors and lost revenue
Revenue-share contracts fail because seasonality makes baselines impossible to agree
Show your customer count first — validation before product earns investor attention
AI strategy & adoption
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Using AI as a teammate, not a tool, unlocks creative potential
EO
April 27, 2025
AI strategy & adoption
9
Productivity & habits
6
Fewer than 10% of professionals drive meaningful productivity gains from AI.
Treating AI like a teammate — coaching it, asking it questions — changes outcomes.
A park ranger built a tool in 45 minutes that saves 7,000 days of labor annually.
Founder interviews
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Building a $200M fusion energy startup at age 19
EO
April 23, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Hiring & recruitment
6
Resilience & grit
6
Fusion energy is the missing unlock for AI and human prosperity.
Great founders hedge risk systematically — starting is the riskiest day.
Being young means naivety and stamina outweigh inexperience.
Founder interviews
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Building a mental health startup from personal experience at 23
EO
April 21, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Customer discovery
6
Asia's mental health treatment gap averages four to seven years.
Skipping university to learn by doing built the skills university couldn't.
Naivety paired with ambition lets founders take bets caution would kill.
From zero buyers to fast-growing B2B SaaS: lessons from Transcend
EO
April 19, 2025
B2B sales
9
Pricing strategy
8
Hiring & recruitment
5
Price at one-quarter of provable value — most founders ask too little.
Your first seller must run the full sales cycle alone.
Privacy officers are becoming AI governance leads — the buyer is changing.
Competitive analysis
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How Felicis Ventures applies the 10x principle to back unicorns
EO
April 16, 2025
Competitive analysis
9
Fundraising & VC
7
Resilience & grit
6
Why your startup must be 10x better, cheaper, or faster to matter
Markets beat everything — pick the wrong one and no founder survives
Felicis iterated its pitch deck 107 times before landing the first yes
AI tools & automation
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Why AI code generation makes code review the new bottleneck
EO
April 15, 2025
AI tools & automation
8
Processes & SOPs
7
Business models
5
Faster code generation just moves the bottleneck to review and deployment.
Stacked pull requests saved Asana seven hours per developer per week.
When anyone can vibe-code a prototype, differentiation moves upstream to product thinking.
Founder interviews
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How Khalid Meniri built Selfbook from nothing to $300M startup
EO
April 13, 2025
Founder interviews
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Pivoting
6
Hotels lose guests to OTAs simply for lacking Apple Pay
Pandemic killed the launch — a pivot created a better business
Two or three deep relationships can build an entire network
Founder interviews
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Why every developer should learn to code and use AI
EO
April 9, 2025
Founder interviews
8
AI strategy & adoption
8
Remote teams
5
Coding is a foundational skill — AI makes it more accessible, not obsolete
AI boosts developer productivity 10–50%, but can't replace systems thinking
GitHub has been remote-first by choice since before COVID
Founder interviews
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How Eric Chen built Injective into a billion-dollar blockchain at 22
EO
April 8, 2025
Founder interviews
10
Cash flow management
7
Retention & loyalty
5
Surviving crypto winter by treating capital scarcity as the permanent baseline
The most critical users give the best feedback — seek them out
Why $1 should access the same opportunities as $10 million
Founder interviews
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Building LucidLink: lessons from a first-time founder at 57
EO
March 28, 2025
Founder interviews
10
Fundraising & VC
6
Resilience & grit
6
Ignored layoff advice during COVID — kept all 25 staff instead
33 VC rejections before landing the first believer at Baseline Ventures
Growth is painful; the habit of taking the harder path builds the muscle
Product-market fit
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Product thinking lessons from Instagram, Artifact, and Anthropic
EO
March 25, 2025
Product-market fit
9
MVP & prototyping
7
AI strategy & adoption
6
Why Instagram pivoted by stripping features, not adding them
Artifact failed because personalization only rewarded patient users
Day-one usefulness matters more than long-term AI intelligence
AI strategy & adoption
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Building competitive autonomous driving AI without a massive fleet
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March 19, 2025
AI strategy & adoption
9
Competitive analysis
7
B2B sales
6
AI simulation lets automakers skip Tesla's fleet-size advantage entirely
Two years of pure R&D before any product — a deliberate all-or-nothing bet
Show customers velocity, not just position, to win production contracts
Pitching investors
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How to raise $17M in 14 days and build momentum
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March 9, 2025
Pitching investors
9
Fundraising & VC
8
Prospecting & outreach
6
Compress fundraising using weekly meetings, founder intros, and competitive tension.
B2B support market shift to chat channels creates $10B+ opportunity for new software.
Persistence through pivot hell, team alignment, and fundamentals beat tactical genius.
Competitive analysis
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Why Most AI Startups Fail to Impress VCs
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March 5, 2025
Competitive analysis
9
Fundraising & VC
8
AI strategy & adoption
6
AI adoption doesn't differentiate; founders must explain why the world needs their company.
Defensibility requires non-AI technology, integrations, and workflows beyond the AI layer.
VCs bet on founder conviction and decision-making velocity, not operational involvement.