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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How 12 Labs built AI video understanding at scale
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December 17, 2024
Founder interviews
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AI strategy & adoption
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Business models
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80% of data is video; 12 Labs built foundation models to search and analyze it semantically.
Founders met in military service, stayed bootstrapped and focused on infrastructure over apps.
Saying no to mentor advice—even from people you respect—kept the company on its original thesis.
How Goodwater Capital finds and backs billion-dollar consumer startups
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December 9, 2024
Case studies
9
Fundraising & VC
8
Niche selection
6
Primary consumer research, not consensus, unlocked 100x–300x returns
Automating due diligence science frees six days for founder judgment
Consumer tech owning end-customer relationships beats enterprise diversification
Founder interviews
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How first-time founders avoid early-stage mistakes in healthtech
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November 26, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Pivoting
7
Customer discovery
7
Technology-first companies fail; anchor to the problem, not the tool
Qualify customers by problem fit — walk away if it's not a match
Staying focused through years of disinterest creates unbeatable headstart
Retention & loyalty
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Building an Analytics Platform: From Crisis to Consumer-Grade Product
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November 22, 2024
Retention & loyalty
9
Iteration & feedback loops
8
Long-term planning
6
How Mixpanel halted 50% churn by targeting NPS instead of retention directly.
Scaling requires breaking team autonomy into modules and owning different product strategies.
Early growth hides problems; data segmentation reveals root causes competitors miss.
Hiring & recruitment
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How SpaceX shaped a founder's approach to hiring and building
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November 19, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
9
Management
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Long-term planning
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Why prestige is a distraction — find places with verifiable results
SpaceX's urgency and first-principles culture built in daily practice
People trump everything: how to set and hold a real talent bar
How a high school dropout built the world's second-largest NFT brand
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November 13, 2024
Origin stories
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Business models
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Growth hacking
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Physical toys sold at Walmart onboard customers to crypto wallets.
Digital collectibles are 1% of a $500B market — gap will close.
Raising more NFT supply kills value; demand creation is the only lever.
Long-term planning
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How to choose between big tech, startups, and founding your own company
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November 11, 2024
Long-term planning
9
Origin stories
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Big tech teaches scale; startups teach zero-to-one — pick deliberately
Skills learned at Google must be actively unlearned to found a startup
Burnout comes from lack of progress, not from working too many hours
CEO lessons from 20 years in the solar industry
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November 4, 2024
Case studies
9
Pivoting
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Management
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Selling off 120 people overnight to survive a margin collapse
Price backwards from willingness to pay, not from your forecast
Your job as CEO is building the environment, not being the star
How DeepL became a $2B AI translation company by moving fast
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November 3, 2024
Case studies
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AI strategy & adoption
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Business models
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Being first to market with neural-network translation created an unstoppable word-of-mouth flywheel.
A no-login free product validated demand before a single paying customer was sought.
Specialized AI models consistently outperform general-purpose ones on specific business problems.
Founder interviews
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Building global human identity infrastructure for the AGI era
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October 28, 2024
Founder interviews
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Identity & self-belief
6
Vision & mission
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Why chasing a billion signups beats targeting enterprise customers first
Treat founder confidence as a KPI — cynics kill companies slowly
First Orb prototype looked like a talking bowling ball; iteration saved it
MVP & prototyping
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How Superhuman built and shipped AI features in four months
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October 24, 2024
MVP & prototyping
8
AI tools & automation
8
Business models
7
Founder fiat over process: how to ship AI fast without ML engineers
Why selling to teams beats single-player subscriptions every time
Responding within minutes separates billion-dollar founders from the rest
Prospecting & outreach
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How to do authentic startup sales without losing trust
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October 24, 2024
Prospecting & outreach
9
B2B sales
8
Communication
5
Give value before asking for a meeting — always.
Honesty closed Dropbox's first multimillion-dollar enterprise deal.
Filter for innovator buyers; followers won't bet on a startup.
Four years of startup lessons from an impact-tech founder
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October 13, 2024
Case studies
9
Pivoting
6
MVP & prototyping
5
Why academic business knowledge fails when you actually build.
Don't build anything until 10 customers sign letters of intent.
A 10-person team has restored 3.5 billion square metres globally.
Founder interviews
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From mobile fiction startup to IP blockchain: SY Lee's nine-year founder journey
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October 4, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Fundraising & VC
6
Resilience & grit
5
Nine years of stagnation preceded a $500M exit to Kakao.
Until money hits the bank, it is not a funding round.
AI creates and steals IP simultaneously — Story is fixing both.
Founder interviews
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How Sandbox VR grew from two months of runway to $80M revenue
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September 30, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Pivoting
6
Fundraising & VC
5
Why building for today's trend is always too late
A zero-budget word-of-mouth engine built into the product
From Chapter 11 bankruptcy to 47 locations after COVID