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Julian Hearn just sold Huel to Danone for €1bn. he walked away with £420m personally. that is 49% of the exit. most DTC founders who raise that much end up with 15%. two things made the difference: how he built the business, and how he funded it. https://t.co/41gOsrcPZD
OpenClaw is free. Except for the API tokens. And the server. And the 50 hours of setup. And the $600 I burned in 4 days. “Free” is doing a lot of heavy lifting. https://t.co/MFj5pVF0o6
Seeing some "record" reports on Q1 VC fundraising that includes all $120 billion for OpenAI. Most of the $$ didn't close in Q1.
Paragon launched its 7th company today -- Korsana Biosciences, merging into the $CYCN public shell. New ticker will be $KRSA. Lead drug candidate is a shuttled anti-amyloid beta antibody for Alzheimer's disease in early studies. https://t.co/RcJ8adMakm
As Apple celebrates 50 today, there’s some brutal stories out there about one of the richest companies on earth. Steve Jobs’ best friend Dan Kottke, who he lived with, and who worked in the garage in the early days, was...
At $50K MRR with typical SaaS margins that’s $35K going to your bank every month after costs. Congratulations you’re printing money. At that point, life is so freaking good, and you cultivate such an abundance mindset, I guarantee no founder...
Most founders chase growth. They hire sales teams, run ads, and push for volume without studying the market. Growth-driven companies do the opposite: they study customers, test demand, and build systems before scaling. One model chases revenue, the other builds long-term value. Are you...
GStack does more to try to remember failures and learn from them. Open source lets us create a memory system to self-improve in the open. We're still on a path to a software factory, but we're going to build it...
One impact of remote or partially remote teams - lower purchase price if startup goes for a smaller exit / M&A (or in some cases acquisition doesnt happen at all) Reason: fewer buyers want fully remote teams, or teams w key...
JUST IN: OpenAI's $122,000,000,000.00 raise will cover operations for just 18 months before they need more funding.
All the old rules are gone, there is only making something people want and what you can do with the tools that now everyone has It's not about access, it's about what you can do, and whether you *want* to go...
I went out for drinks with some engineers in the fall. I got really excited about an idea. Like REALLY excited about it. They also seemed pretty excited. I said, "we should just build this. Screw priorities, this is magic."...
Architects don't build the building themselves. They design it. Then hand off the work so it’s built whether they’re available or not. Are you the architect of your business?
Voltair Launches a Global #Drone Network for Infrastructure and Earth Monitoring by @ycombinator #Innovation #TechForGood #EmergingTech #Technology #Tech https://t.co/ueS5Ot5HSW
there are some really cool founders visiting SF from Japan to build their startups did my part this morning helping bridge US/Japan :)
The empower ride app (regulatory qs aside) is interesting for platform power Qs as it has a flat fee model for drivers. Could imagine the same thing for a marketplace app that would challenge Amazon marketplace
This is a Hampton Core group (based in LA). - One co-founded a K-beauty brand, ran it for 12 years, and exited at around $200M while the brand was valued closer to $600M. - Another quit her job as the on-set lawyer...
ICYMI: Remastered classic article: Often we can and should accept 80% of the benefit if it means 20% of the effort. Customers generally prefer the right features over more features. But sometimes… sometimes we should just do what we think is cool… https://t.co/zeRESifPJs
I met one of the cofounders of @neuralink last week at @hf0 (he's now building a new way to get cargo from China to USA a lot cheaper via autonomous dirigibles like the Goodyear Blimp, but designed and manufactured all...
In Bessemer's original Shopify memo, the BEST case exit was $400 million. Shopify is worth $155 BILLION today. No VC model survives contact with a generational company. I imagine we will see this to an even greater extent over the next 5...
Today, I built the coolest thing I've ever made. It's a reverse job board: Tell it what interests you most in life, and you'll match with the world's most exciting hardware startups (from robotics to lasers) that are a dream...
Built startups with human founders. Built copilots for teams. Now watching founders get automated. What @marik and the @feltsensefund team are pulling off is unlike anything I have seen. There should be a documentary about this.
Without founder/market fit, this team won't be able to execute. Without product/market fit, this product won’t be purchased. So it’s not “which one” or “it’s a balance.” It’s: Both.
1/ I had the pleasure of working closely with @SamBroner for several years at @a16zcrypto, where he quickly became our go-to ‘stablecoin guy.’ Fascinated by the minutiae of the space, he could (and did) spend hours explaining the intricacies of...
7 danger signs that tell you if your growth is real: > CAC above 30% of AOV: margin gone before order ships > CPM above $15 sustained: losing the auction > New customer rate below 50%: reacquiring who you already have > Frequency...
Wealth creation has never been more attainable than in 2026. Right now everyone has two choices: 1) Be the builder - use the tools like Claude code and codex. Find problems, build apps, help with ai migration 2) Be the investor...
The Rise of the One-Person AI Startup: China’s Experiment and the Evolution of Hiring in the US Talent Market https://t.co/RuSZhkDbBC AI is compressing companies into solo startups. China is accelerating this shift while top talent goes independent and becomes harder...
First, be effective. Then be efficient. A lot of startup founders worry about the second before the first. If you're a well-funded startup, be effective first. We can always optimize for efficiency later. But Lord help you if you...
Average day in the life of a VC backed founder: > wake up at 5am to “optimize” > check burn rate before checking texts > spend morning prepping board deck instead of building product > get on call with investor who's...
It was a very busy Q1 2026 for many companies in the @NFX portfolio 🚀 Across AI infrastructure, space, security, tech bio, fintech, and consumer — we’ve seen a wave of financings + M&A from companies where we led the seed...
In 1984, Dietrich Mateschitz orchestrated the coldest betrayal in business history… He erased the real founder and stole the Redbull empire. Then, through pure greed and deception, he turned a Thai tonic into an $80B monster. This is how Red Bull really started...
This 2004 TED talk by Burt Rutan was part of my inspiration for starting Boom. I remember showing this to friends in ~2010 and saying someone needed to do something about the problems Burt called out….
I left corporate America because someone else decided how much of my value I got to keep. I made $45,000 a year, yet generated millions of dollars in revenue for this business. Yeah, my value was WORTH a ton, and I wasn't...
Hollywood came to Draper University in 2015 to film a reality TV show called "Startup U." Fast forward to 2021: PrettyLitter sold—nearly a unicorn. Let’s rewind… One of the contestants was Carly Martinetti. She came with her partner, Daniel Rotman, to pitch PrettyLitter. The...
I got a chance to interview Jack Dorsey for the Long Strange Trip pod about his new article (in comments) on how to build a modern ai native company in 2026. I took some of his ideas and mixed them with...
YouTube started as ...a video dating site. But nobody uploaded dating videos. People uploaded everything else. So Youtube listened and pivoted to the current Youtube
My final student session last night was at 7pm. The founder showed up and had done ALL of his homework. He had doubled the number of demos that were going onto his calendar since our prior session two weeks before,...
I’m at the @runwayml ai summit in nyc today. If you’re a startup/company building with Runway’s tools, come find me. https://t.co/wX1Brsne32
Exclusive: Runway launches $10M fund, Builders program to support early stage AI startups Part of a growing trend of young, upwardly mobile AI startups investing in early stage to cover areas of the biz they can't do in house. https://t.co/FcIMsDUTtK via...
Getting more serious about a potential expansion of our property management business to Phoenix. Looking to hire our first employee there, who will help me launch and grow the business, while also managing our initial batch of properties. Link to the job...
You think you know your story because you live it every day. Try this test: Open a blank document and write down your company's story in 200 words. What job are customers hiring you to do? Why does your approach work...
Naval Ravikant has talked for years about the idea of productizing yourself. I keep coming back to that phrase, especially now. With so many people worried about AI taking their job, replacing parts of what they do, or even dulling...
Most people are building AI features. A few are building AI companies. Almost nobody is thinking about AI aggregators. Most Founders are asking: "Which model should I build on?" But the smart ones are asking a different question: "How do...
Found out (the hard way) that the most important words in entrepreneurship are “No. No. No.”
Advice I needed at 22: • Build earlier • Stop overthinking • Pick one path • Use AI, don’t fear it • Show your work You don’t need more time. You need more action.
The happiest founders I know have a business that runs without them. If you're answering basic questions or fixing mistakes that shouldn't have happened… You’re an operator, not a CEO.
This interview with Jessica goes the deepest of any interview she's done into her life story, and how it gave her the unique combination of qualities that made Y Combinator work.
If founders keep treating content like a side task, they’ll keep getting side-task results. The real leverage starts when content becomes part of product growth infrastructure.
Founder to founder. I don't care about your follower count. I don't care about your revenue. I care that you show up every day and build. If that's you, let's connect. What are you working on right now?
For the last couple of months, I’ve been rethinking something important: I don’t think most founders have a content problem. I think they have a systems problem. They don’t need more random ideas. They need better ways to turn signals into decisions, and decisions...
