2 June 2025
This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and marketing, with new digests from Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth, Rob Walling, and Ryan Deiss. Highlights include Why Mercado Libre runs 18,000 engineers with almost no PMs Seven excluded ideas are a tiny fraction of all viable startup paths
Showing 45 digests for 2 June 2025.
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Mercado Libre scaled to 18,000 engineers, 30,000 deploys a day, and their own fleet of planes
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
June 8, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Culture building
7
AI strategy & adoption
6
Why Mercado Libre runs 18,000 engineers with almost no PMs
30,000 daily production deploys — how trust replaces approval gates
Steve Jobs personally called this founder at 17 to pull his app
Rob Walling responds to criticism of his startup ideas list
Rob Walling
June 8, 2025
Business models
9
Communication
7
Customer experience
6
Seven excluded ideas are a tiny fraction of all viable startup paths
Founders who tried two-sided marketplaces almost always regret it
All startup advice is opinion — consider the speaker's goals and context
Cash flow management
YouTube
15 lessons for scaling a business from six to eight figures
Ryan Deiss
June 8, 2025
Cash flow management
9
Delegation
8
Niche selection
6
Own your customer list — it's your real emergency fund.
Rule of 40: growth % plus profit % must reach 40.
Never quit on a bad day; abdication can trigger a death spiral.
Five micro SaaS businesses you can buy and scale today
TK Kader
June 8, 2025
Business models
9
Valuation
7
Product-market fit
6
Buying proven revenue beats years of building something nobody wants.
Five listed businesses from $15K to $4M, all profitable with zero marketing.
Existing listings signal what works — remix the idea even if you don't buy.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
One day can be a whole life: a Stoic evening review
The Daily Stoic
June 8, 2025
Productivity & habits
7
Relationships & family
6
Resilience & grit
5
A chaotic day of sick kids still counts as a whole life
Rushing your child doesn't make them faster — only leaves bitterness
Seneca's evening review: close each day's books before sleep
How to generate better leads by knowing exactly who you're chasing
KeyPersonOfInfluence
June 8, 2025
Growth hacking
9
Prospecting & outreach
8
Content marketing
7
Your ICP is your red car — define it or you'll see nothing.
Signature content plus three post types (pain, news, prize) fills your pipeline.
One-to-ones close 10k+ deals; group intros scale the 1k–10k tier.
AI tools & automation
YouTube
How Alex Finn built a $300K ARR app solo using AI coding tools
Starter Story
June 7, 2025
AI tools & automation
9
Business models
8
Social media
7
Break AI prompts into micro-steps — smaller tasks mean fewer bugs.
Three years of audience-building drove $200K revenue in two hours.
Distribution, not product quality, is the only defensible moat now.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Seven CEO mindset principles for transformative personal growth
Dr. Grace Lee
June 7, 2025
Identity & self-belief
9
Goal setting
7
Momentum has direction — being productive the wrong way still fails.
Your environment is more powerful than your willpower to succeed.
Serve first: rewards are a byproduct of value created for others.
Increase Your Copywriting Income Beyond $10k? Watch This
Matthew Volkwyn
June 6, 2025
B2B sales
9
Branding
7
Identity & self-belief
5
Six Digital Marketing Trends Every Marketer Must Adopt in 2025
Neil Patel
June 6, 2025
Growth hacking
8
AI tools & automation
7
Brand search volume now outranks click traffic as the key marketing metric.
AI agents and social commerce are mandatory, not optional, in 2025.
96% of global opportunity sits outside the US market.
The 95-5 rule: focus on the one lever that moves everything
Dan Martell
June 6, 2025
Goal setting
10
Delegation
8
Processes & SOPs
6
95% of results come from just 5% of your efforts
Clarity of vision is the prerequisite for finding your 5%
Delegate, defer, or delete everything outside your highest-leverage work
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Twelve Stoic strategies for caring less about others' opinions
The Daily Stoic
June 6, 2025
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
6
Other people's opinions are outside your control — and always were
Cato and Diogenes deliberately courted judgment to build immunity to it
Whose feedback matters: solicited, from people whose life you'd trade
AI strategy & adoption
Podcast
Anthropic's CPO Mike Krieger on AI timelines, product strategy, and the future of building
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
June 5, 2025
AI strategy & adoption
9
Product-market fit
7
Competitive analysis
6
90% of Anthropic's code is AI-written — bottlenecks have moved to alignment and merging
Embedding product teams in model post-training yields far more leverage than UX work alone
MCP's real goal: make every AI integration composable and reusable across all models
Simon Sinek on finding your why, great leadership, and the friendship advantage
Masters of Scale
June 5, 2025
Vision & mission
9
Culture building
8
Relationships & family
7
Why missionaries take less money to protect their mission
Friendship is the ultimate biohack for health and longevity
AI companions hijack oxytocin — without giving anything back
Physical & cognitive performance
YouTube
How brain-body communication shapes health, mood, and performance
Andrew Huberman
June 5, 2025
Physical & cognitive performance
8
Resilience & grit
5
Your emotions are built from gut, heart, and breath signals — not thought
Exhale length directly controls heart rate and calm within seconds
Daily fermented foods outperform fibre for brain and immune health