EO
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How Postscript scaled by staying obsessively focused on one niche
EO
March 2, 2025
Case studies
9
Niche selection
8
Culture building
7
Turning down big-brand revenue to protect Shopify-only focus paid off
Live chat wired to founders' phones turned customers into word-of-mouth engines
Company values should evolve as headcount doubles — and the acronym can stay
Founder interviews
YouTube
From $1.5B startup to serverless Postgres: Nikita Shamgunov on building Neon
EO
February 20, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Product-market fit
7
Pivoting
6
Why he walked away from a $1.5B company he spent 10 years building
GitHub stars going vertical was Neon's first real product-market fit signal
Your team must include people expert in the direction the world is heading
Beyond the demo: what VCs actually want from AI founders
EO
February 17, 2025
Fundraising & VC
9
Product-market fit
8
Pivoting
6
Scale production code, not just demos—the VC gate for AI startups
CEOs win by listening to customers obsessively, not selling dogma
Second movers beat first movers; validate fit before scaling sales
Founder interviews
YouTube
Building $15M ARR vertical SaaS from a gym owner's frustration
EO
February 14, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Business models
7
Content marketing
5
Vertical SaaS TAM is the gym's full P&L, not just software seats.
Customer support treated as sales: it drives referrals and kills churn.
Staying alive long enough lets you manufacture luck — COVID proved it.
Founder interviews
YouTube
Building B2B autonomous driving infrastructure for logistics
EO
February 11, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Niche selection
8
Pivoting
7
Infrastructure sensors guide fleets, not per-vehicle sensors
One killer focus beats 100 diluted projects
B2B robotics fills niches, not consumer markets
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to find the right co-founder for your startup
EO
January 27, 2025
Hiring & recruitment
8
Culture building
7
Management
5
Design your co-founder relationship intentionally through behavioral profiling and role clarity.
Complementary strengths and eight-year trust beat shared DNA or similar backgrounds.
Co-CEO structure requires continuous communication and ego restraint, not just initial compatibility.
Customer discovery
YouTube
Validating ideas deeply before building: 9 months to $75M
EO
January 22, 2025
Customer discovery
9
B2B sales
7
Delegation
6
6–9 months of research before building proved why Merge's solution would outcompete existing platforms
Founders who do first customer sales calls learn objections, enabling smarter hiring and faster scaling
Scaling to billions requires teams operating autonomously, not founders doing everything themselves
Product-market fit
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How a small founder team beat incumbents in salon software
EO
January 19, 2025
Product-market fit
9
Niche selection
8
Bootstrapping
6
Entering a crowded market is a feature, not a bug
Saying no to enterprise deals protected product focus
Rigid PM frameworks produce unremarkable products — intuition wins
Founder interviews
YouTube
From Belarus to $100M ARR: Mikita Mikado and the building of PandaDoc
EO
January 12, 2025
Founder interviews
10
Bootstrapping
6
Remote teams
5
Freedom, not wealth, drove every founding decision Mikita made.
Government hostage-taking forced a 220-person team out of Belarus mid-growth.
PandaDoc hit $100M ARR as a predictable business — the milestone felt small.
Founder interviews
YouTube
From Palantir SVP to founder: building Mosaic after 50 rejections
EO
January 9, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Resilience & grit
6
Product-market fit
5
Finance still runs on spreadsheets — Mosaic fixes that
50+ rejections taught the pitch; the same investor later begged to join
Focus means choosing what not to build, not what to build
How Altos Ventures builds generational companies through patient investing
EO
January 8, 2025
Fundraising & VC
9
Long-term planning
6
Case studies
5
Power law and compounding drive venture returns in years 10–20, not years 1–3
Partner with hedgehog founders who obsess over one problem with flexible conviction
VCs add value through pattern recognition and stewardship, not valuation speed
Founder interviews
YouTube
From engineer to founder: conviction, culture, and AI employees
EO
January 4, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Culture building
7
AI strategy & adoption
6
Why vehement internal opposition often signals a breakthrough idea
Deliberately broke Google's launch rules — and kept the feature when it worked
One-person companies making $1B revenue: the AI-employee future Ema is building
Customer discovery
YouTube
From Zero to $1.5B Unicorn in 2 Years
EO
December 30, 2024
Customer discovery
9
Business models
7
AI strategy & adoption
5
Customer support was 'too obvious' — but obsessive listening revealed the billion-dollar opportunity
Built AI agents on new tech while incumbents moved slowly, reaching 7-figure ARR in 6 months
Defensible moat comes from deep customer relationships, not just models — only you have that access
Pivot and fail fast: lessons from 12 years to IPO
EO
December 29, 2024
Pivoting
9
Fundraising & VC
7
AI strategy & adoption
6
Emotional attachment to past work slows execution; release it faster for growth
One bad board member is worse than any technical challenge to solve
AI compresses 10-year battery validation timelines into one year with real-world data
How Mytra is reinventing pallet movement in warehouses and manufacturing
EO
December 27, 2024
Case studies
9
Content marketing
8
Growth hacking
8
A 700 lb robot moves 3,000 lb pallets — without forklifts
Software replaces physical conveyors; warehouses become fully reconfigurable
Work in the field first — insight always precedes the right solution