In 2017, Dylan Fox started @AssemblyAI— years before the AI boom. It took 5 years for the market to catch up. Now, AssemblyAI powers voice features for thousands of companies and processes hundreds of millions of hours of audio every year. Dylan joined @snowmaker for a Founder Fireside on building early, competing with giants, and where voice AI is going next. 02:08 - What AssemblyAI actually does 05:23 - Dylan learns to code and discovers ML 07:11 - The Amazon Echo moment 09:32 - Why Dylan built voice AI infrastructure 13:02 - Building AI before anyone cared 16:50 - The 2021 inflection point 24:13 - Real-time voice agents are here 28:26 - Inside AssemblyAI’s new voice models 45:33 - Lessons from hypergrowth 52:00 - The future of voice AI

Contact forms can be tricky if you want to share the received emails with your team: Who replied, what's the history, who is this client? That's why we've added the "Contact" module in @feedbask_com Now, it’s easy to know if a team...
Stuck at $1M ARR. But the goal is to reach $5M. In this episode, I coach @MSliwinski on how to get his software company unstuck. Search "Nathan Barry Show" to watch. https://t.co/NAMZTWA7Ww
I'm really excited for young founders right now. If you're building with AI today, you're the yellow and red on this chart. Tiny sliver of the population. The green and the gray are the 84% of people who have never touched...
New @ThePeelPod with @chetanp We talk Manus, the history + future of software, why incumbents should make big AI acquisitions, why investors are begging for AI companies to go public, and inside @Benchmark’s latest investing strategy. Thanks @Numeral and @FlexSuperApp for sponsoring...
First customer: $200/month plan. Infrastructure bill: $50. Profitable in month one. Found by answering questions on Stack Overflow, GitHub, and Reddit. Joel Griffith bootstrapped Browserless to nearly $4M ARR. https://t.co/hPZB3qTqRL
The story of Morgan Properties is one of those "only in America" stories -- started by a shoe salesman in 1985 putting down $1 to buy 3 suburban Philly apartment properties, and growing it into the nation's 2nd largest apartment...
From ZERO to $1B in 3.5 years. We wrote their first check at Lux… Here’s how they did it.
Most startups fail at hiring, not product. They scale headcount faster than they scale training. Lean teams stay small, ship MVPs, track metrics, and fix root issues with Five Whys before adding people. Amazon runs teams small enough to feed with two pizzas...
Hot take that's actually not that hot: Your customers can’t tell you what to build. I know. You've been collecting feature requests. You've got a Notion doc or a Monday board full of them. You send surveys. You read every...
Holy shit... I built an entire startup last night in one session. No team. No developers. No investors. Just me, a dinner idea, and Spine AI. Here's the full breakdown: 👇 The idea hit at dinner: What if you typed "show me all customers who...
Vacillate between goals and systems. Start with a directional goal. What systems could do that? But you learn while you execute, so the goal might change, as might the system. Etc..

Why today is always the day for my biggest business purchases. Float and Discipline lesson inside. https://t.co/r6DUEVnTtI #SmallBusiness & Deal Making #SMB https://t.co/s6Y0EC0IKN
teens should all be building a solo business with an assembly of new tools and agents as part of the core high school curriculum these days - can’t think of a more important and practical building block for new world...
3 years of nights and weekends. $500K in ARR. Finally quits his job. Then Google launched the exact same product. That was Joel Griffith's reality at browserless. He'd built a product while working a full-time job and raising a newborn. Finally...

Entrepreneurs don’t predict the future. They invent it. MrBeast turned videos into burgers and games, Sara Blakely turned $5,000 into Spanx, and Hamdi Ulukaya turned a closed factory into Chobani. An Amazon employee built 1‑Click, a Frito‑Lay worker created Flamin’ Hot Cheetos,...
PSA check your domain expirations. Had a non-critical but one I want to keep, almost expire. Easy to miss since I only check email very infrequently, and I'm probably not the only one.
If an investor wrote you a $500K check right now and needed a 3X return in 1 year, what would you do?
Five years out, when billions of coding agents exist, software development will be largely solved. The traditional moat of “we have better engineers” disappears. Products will be copied, improved, and open-sourced almost instantly. Defensibility will shift away from code itself,...

3.11 in NYC: @Conviction’s “Mixture of Experts” ✨a curated set of the founders you need to know in AI, pitching you (engineer, researcher, product person) their company to join 💫 https://t.co/hXUsZctqfH
lol heard a 2nd startup today that has made sales and evals based on this podcast its fun to be "just an interviewer", but i'm always mindful/humbled by the fact that we are playing with live ammo here. LS has directly...
When faced with a monumental project, often people say: What’s one thing you can do today that moves this forward at all? Do that. Good: It gets you unstuck and starts momentum. Bad: It’s not a plan for how to actually accomplish...

Sell These 5 Digital Products Before They Get Saturated (2026) WATCH HERE 👉 https://t.co/uSwvC4ILNY I'm showing you the exact 5 digital products I'd launch if starting from zero in 2026 as a complete beginner https://t.co/xtyGDntRls
I spent 12 years figuring out how to collapse a $60K/month growth team into one person. The results: 3.15% forecast to target across $3B in GMV. 32% yoy revenue growth. 41% yoy contribution margin growth. Here's the entire playbook. https://t.co/0oPoA7oEd8
Success isn't always about hard work. Sometimes, it's about being in the right place at the right time. Recognize the role of luck and timing in your journey, and don't be too hard on yourself during tough times. ❤️
I’m hearing a theme lately from the tech startup crowd. They're doing lots of pitching, lots of applause and interest… that leads no where. VC firms either being super risk averse or using potential investment as a carrot to get...
10 venture capital firms HIRING investors right now 👇 ♻️ Repost to make VC more accessible.
AI is compressing how we build. Roles collapse, roadmaps expire quickly, and you end up rewriting the product every few months. So we thought we’d give people a behind-the-scenes look. 21 Days to Launch, a Replit documentary. https://t.co/isWq9KtMIO
Before you switch direction, take a hard look at the work you did. Did you learn something concrete that clearly requires changing strategy? Or did you push hard and now your mental system is tired and wondering where the dopamine payoff...
Casper hit a $750M valuation in 4 years with one move: a 100-night risk-free trial. They made buying a mattress feel safe. Meanwhile you won't even offer a simple money-back guarantee. That's the gap.
The future is about hybrid teams of humans and AI agents. But even today, you can start building your own personal team of simple, easy-to-use agents. If you work in sales or need to sell (because you're a founder/entrepreneur), you...
Trae Stephens Wants to Buy Wired. He’s Right. A 2011 article about male birth control became a Founders Fund investment. That’s what great journalism does. Wired forgot. https://t.co/nJv3I8Tg81
We're doing $1million ARR with 3 people But now I am looking for the fourth I want the marketer that can work alongside me and help take Senja from $1,000,000 -> $2,000,000 ARR I'm personally working on product and lifecycle marketing So I want...
What happened at Social Capital was several things: 1) Personally, I was going through a divorce. It was a very hard time. 2) My ostensible “cofounders” spent more time jostling for board seats and credit for deals with outsiders vs doing...
11 years since I knocked on your door @vijaycivs and we built SegNet 🚀 Thanks to @SoftBank_Group who tell the full story here.
Calendly has hundreds of employees. Meet.bot has one. Who moves faster? Vincent Jong told me something most founders underestimate: Speed can be your moat in the AI era. Incumbents are stuck protecting: – existing customers – existing revenue – existing...
Your next sale won't be a 1000-seat order from Google. But is your homepage written as if this is the target? Formal, obtuse, corporate-speak, pretending to be a mature, stable company. You’re alienating your actual best customers. https://t.co/2jsBd6Z3Ap
Smart people wait for opportunities, while "lucky" people create 50 opportunities, launch them, analyze, and then pick the best 1-2. Intelligence is overrated. Volume and action win.
We’re so glad that @claudeai gave the government the middle finger that we’re bringing in our partner and AI engineer, Kyle Cupples, to teach all @theannaio founders how to get started. Education is step 1. We’ll be doing 4 sessions...
Overheard from a creator today: I’m really impressed with the Creator Network. It’s been my top source of subscriber growth, and now I keep telling every Kit creator I know to join if they haven’t already.

I paid Alex Hormozi's team $35,000 to help me scale to $1,000,000. And I just got back from their workshop in Vegas. For the better part of 2 years now, we've been stuck trying to hit this goal. But I emerged with...
Had a tough conversation this week where I had to deliver some hard truths about a product launch. The metrics looked okay on the surface. But when we dug deeper, the conversion story wasn't adding up. It would have been easy to...
Winning founders have two qualities: determination and resourcefulness. With that, I think you can achieve anything. It's my personal philosophy on life and it's how I got started at Harlem Capital 5 years ago. I created a 10-page deck and pitched them...
BlackTwist is the scheduling and growth tool built specifically for Threads. What we do: - Schedule and queue posts - AI Post Generator (write posts in your voice — beta) - Analytics and engagement tracking - Engager (reply to your audience faster) - Threads100 Challenge (100...

Phoebe Gates raised $35M for her AI startup Phia and refuses to use her last name in the pitch. She wants zero ties to privilege and took no money from her parents. Phia plugs into your browser and finds lower prices across...
Being a bootstrapped founder is writing down 10 features users might want, then talking to actual customers and deleting 9 of them.

Insightful quick trip to NYC to meet up 1 on 1 with many peers and participate in the Family office roundtable session at Bloomberg Invest. It was intriguing hearing different perspectives on private market investing, especially the varying views on the...
I’m a Black mother who’s raising small, Black children with special needs while trying to build an EdTech company with limited resources & extremely limited time. Building my first cap table & coding an AI tool while planning an IEP...
Carta data just released the latest fundraising benchmarks and I’m shocked. Median seed valuation came in at $23.4M post-money (all time high). Median series A valuation came in at $67.7M post-money (near all time high). 🤯
If your parents fully understand what you do for a living, you're probably playing it too safe.