This week's additions focus on founder stories, strategy, and finance, with new digests from Founders, Acquired, and Ahrefs. Highlights include Perpetual dissatisfaction, aimed correctly, compounds into billion-dollar companies. Spotify skipped the IPO — no new shares, no dilution, no lockup

Founder interviews

Podcast

Jim Clark and the pursuit of the new new thing

Founders April 7, 2018

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Founder interviews 10

Resilience & grit 7

Pivoting 6

• Perpetual dissatisfaction, aimed correctly, compounds into billion-dollar companies.
• Clark went from expelled dropout to PhD to billionaire — starting at 38.
• Diversification is a recipe for mediocrity: Clark bet everything, every time.

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Origin stories

Podcast

How Spotify became a $30 billion company via a direct listing

Acquired April 6, 2018

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Origin stories 9

Fundraising & VC 8

Business models 6

• Spotify skipped the IPO — no new shares, no dilution, no lockup
• Facebook's newsfeed doubled Spotify's user base overnight in 2011
• 21% gross margins explain why a $5B revenue company still loses billions

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SEO

YouTube

Finding competitor pages that drive the most organic search traffic

Ahrefs April 4, 2018

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SEO 10

Content marketing 6

• One competitor page can reveal hundreds of rankable keywords instantly.
• Sort by fewest backlinks to find high-traffic, low-competition topics.
• Reported traffic is always a floor — actual SEO traffic runs higher.

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