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Paul Graham quoted
Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb
Their wordsThere are two possible explanations: (a) the investors actually are stupid, or (b) they just dislike you, and are making up the reason.
- 2 days earlier
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Paul Graham quoted
Their wordsIt's not unusual for startups to grow 10x in a year, but to keep it up for 3 years is close to unheard of.
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Paul Graham quoted
Their wordsAt this point, nearly all of it. I can't promise that will be true in 10 years, but at this moment, starting a startup is much the same as always.
- 2 days earlier
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer
Their wordsIf anything it adds mobility because every major startup + Big Tech does it do learn once and for all~10 years you benefitted
- 1 day earlier
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Their wordsBut in 9/10 cases unless said person is not a cofounder or founding eng, they won’t get the trust to do the risky + sometimes controversial stuff that is required to execute quickly and well to win vs competition
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Their wordsWhoever doesn’t want to use AI, no problem: but you won’t be hired at 99.9% of startups+Big Tech+ambitious companies, even today
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Their wordsb) more startups filter for “AI positivity” as a whole
- 6 days earlier
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Their wordsFor startups starting from scratch, they need to eventually rebuild all those systems: from eg ones for automated testing, manual testing, FF, canary rollouts, o11y, experimentation, migrations etc etc
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Their wordsGetting harder to tell if a trending video / post about a startup launch is real or made up; if funding happened or not.
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Their wordsUnironically one reason startups in the 2010s would start using "hip" technologies + blog about them (eg Clijure, Go, React etc when these were 'new' and still rare) was to hire much easier, especially solid devs who were not allowed to introduce new tech at their current co!!
- 5 days earlier
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Zach Holman quoted
Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee
Their wordsthings are happening really fuckin' fast these days, to the point where the incorporation step isn't an afterthought in the middle of a paragraph; in many cases it's the real blocker.
↗You Should Have an LLCzachholman.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Zach Holman quoted
Their wordsget an LLC. Even if you don't particularly have something in mind to launch right now, it's worth grabbing one to be able to move quickly in the event that you do.
↗You Should Have an LLCzachholman.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Paul Graham quoted
Their wordsDon't start a startup expecting you'll go to college (or back to college) afterward. Those two paths are incompatible, and you're lying to yourself if you try to pretend otherwise.
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Pieter Levels quoted
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone
Their wordsI think AI great in combining lots of different data sources from your bank accounts, health sensor data, air quality sensor data, your startup revenue data from Stripe, investment returns, emails etc into one
- 1 day earlier
- BC
Ben Carlson quoted
Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz…
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Their wordsVenture capital is a power law strategy by design. The hope is 1-2 big winners make up for all of the other losers.
↗Can You Be a Boglehead Tech Investor?awealthofcommonsense.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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- NM
Nick Maggiulli quoted
Writer of the personal-finance blog Of Dollars And Data…
Their wordsthe real case for working at a startup isn't always the equity, but the experience and the network that comes along with it.
↗Is Startup Equity a Bad Deal?ofdollarsanddata.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Nick Maggiulli quoted
Their wordsStatistically, for most employees, it will turn out worse than they hope. But if you negotiate the right terms and set the proper expectations around exit, it can still be worth the risk.
↗Is Startup Equity a Bad Deal?ofdollarsanddata.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Sam Altman quoted
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI
Their wordsStandards should help prevent the concentration of power, including by making sure new companies and open-model companies can compete.
- 3 days earlier
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Thorsten Ball quoted
Co-founder of Amp and co-host of the Raising an Agent podcast
Their wordsThe difference between software engineering at large corporations and small ones will increase. Start-ups adopting practices of Google will look even sillier than before, because they can now build so much faster and with so much less constraints.
↗What I believe about the future of software developmentthorstenball.com 10th of 15 in this piece
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Casey Newton quoted
Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms…
Our readingSpending enough time in San Francisco tends to make people want to start their own company.
Their wordsNo matter how much fun you're having at your W-2 job, spend enough time in San Francisco and you may find yourself itching to build something of your own.
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Tobias Lütke quoted
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify
Our readingThe right path for a company tends to be the option without a rapid feedback loop attached.
Their wordsI find a very high correlation between the right path and the ones that don't have feedback loops um attached.
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 13th of 26 in this recording
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Their wordsI don't know a single startup or serious tech company using Teams sorry they are all on Slack OK, Cloudflare is on GChat
- 2 days earlier
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Pieter Levels quoted
Their wordsIn the most early adopting tech pioneering place that's Silicon Valley new startups aren't even building software anymore And it's debatable if anyone will actually need a custom harness or it won't just be generically offered by the AI frontier companies So software is mostly dead and hardware it is
↗Y Combinator's batch only has harness or hardware startups, so software is mostly deadlevels.io
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Paul Graham quoted
Our readingIf existing model companies slow down, starting a new model company becomes slightly more feasible.
Their wordsIf the model companies are all going to slow down, this makes it slightly more feasible to start a new model company.
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M.G. Siegler quoted
Technology writer of Spyglass
Their wordsIt's certainly an impressive piece of technology, but it was clearly launched far too early, with no large market to find.
↗Apple Unveils the CEO Handoffspyglass.org 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Tamar Yehoshua quoted
Chief Product and AI Officer at Atlassian
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Their wordsAnd the AI builder job is real. There are startups that are not hiring PMs or not hiring designers. They are hiring builders.
↗Roles aren't converging—they're expanding | Tamar Yehoshua (Atlassian CPO) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 1st of 13 in this recording
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Tamar Yehoshua quoted
Their wordsWhen I talk to people at startups, they tell me hire people that are AI native. Well, we have a lot of PMs already who are amazing PMs at Atlassian. So, we want them to become AI native.
↗Roles aren't converging—they're expanding | Tamar Yehoshua (Atlassian CPO) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 10th of 13 in this recording
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Their wordsI'm sorry for employees who got equity issued at the $17B or $11B valuation - the dangers of too high valuations!
- 2 days earlier
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Roman Ugarte quoted
Leads product for Grok Bot at SpaceX AI
Their wordsif you define a startup by number of people or by like the funding round like none of those things really make any sense. The core thing that defines a startup is exactly what you're describing, which is this kind of scramble energy of things are kind of chaotic and kind of disorganized.
↗How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)youtube.com 15th of 18 in this recording
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Roman Ugarte quoted
Our readingAn AI product company that cannot completely reinvent itself every six months is going to lose.
Their wordsAnd if we as a company can't completely reinvent ourselves every six months, which recently it's felt even shorter than that of kind of complete like very significant reinventions of our priorities, the core product, what users feel, uh we're going to lose.
↗How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)youtube.com 16th of 18 in this recording