"Build Your Fire"—Brendan Marshall, Stanford StartX Mentor, on Building a Startup That Lasts
Brendan Marshall, a veteran StartX mentor and serial entrepreneur, shares his “Build Your Fire” framework for creating lasting startups. He argues that founders must first craft a compelling narrative and validate a single, high‑impact problem before seeking scale or capital. Drawing on his experience with Kitchit, Flow and hundreds of mentees, Marshall stresses rigorous customer discovery, disciplined hiring, and raising money only to accelerate proven levers. The interview also highlights the emerging AI landscape, where a founder’s unique "fingerprint" becomes the primary defensive moat.
[FounderCoHo @Stanford Event] Beyond Episodes: Infrastructure, Evaluation, and Benchmarking for Long-Running Agents
FounderCoHo and Daytona are co‑hosting a high‑signal event at Stanford on April 29, 2026 to examine the emerging challenges of long‑running reinforcement‑learning agents. The discussion will cover the infrastructure required to sustain days‑long, stateful training, new evaluation frameworks for safety‑critical...
The Two Dimensions of Agent Skills
The post proposes a two‑axis model for defining agent "skills": what the skill describes (persona, tool, or workflow) and how it executes (stateless or stateful). It recommends adding explicit `type` and `execution` fields to a skill’s metadata file to make...
“I Was Wrong About Coding” — Jay Jung, Lead of OpenAI GTM Innovation Lab, on Building OpenAI With OpenAI
Jay Jung, lead of OpenAI’s GTM Innovation Lab, discussed how his team builds and then uses AI‑powered tools in a recursive loop that dramatically speeds product creation. He highlighted DocGPT’s launch, which coincided with a 12%‑18% drop in DocuSign’s stock,...
[FounderCoHo @Stanford Event] Scaling Apps to Millions: The Growth Playbook You Need
FounderCoHo is hosting a Stanford fireside chat focused on scaling apps to millions through community‑driven growth rather than paid acquisition. Panelists include Marco Polo CEO Vlada Bortnik, Virality Playbook author Aditya Bhatia, and an AI‑wearable founder, each sharing frameworks that turned...
The Builder Betting on the AI Internet | Alex Yeh - Founder & CEO of GMI Cloud
Alex Yeh transformed a $200 million Bitcoin mining operation into GMI Cloud, a global AI‑infrastructure provider, within 30 days after China’s crypto ban. The company now runs nine data centers processing 5.2 billion tokens daily and announced a $500 million AI Factory equipped with...
FounderCoHo GTC 2026 After Hours: From Models to Agents to Infra
FounderCoHo is hosting a free, invitation‑only after‑hours side event during NVIDIA GTC 2026 in Sunnyvale. The two‑hour program focuses on moving from frontier models to production‑ready agents and on scaling AI distribution through open‑stack infrastructure. Speakers include senior leaders from...