After @tobi published his now-famous AI memo, you probably saw similar posts from other founders and CEOs flood this platform. But most companies are still in the “memos and demos” phase — ambitious plans and mandates, “AI-first” roadmaps on board decks, flashy features and

@braintrustdata @ankrgyl Listen to the full conversation on In Depth:

Exceptional products are often forged in a state of paranoia. @braintrustdata founder and CEO @ankrgyl explains why founders should never lose sight of the responsibility that comes with building software.

@qasar Listen to the full conversation with Qasar on In Depth:

Here’s the formula @qasar, co-founder and CEO of Applied Intuition, uses to start a company: co-founder → market → idea

RT @brettberson: We had the good fortune of partnering with @nicckopp nearly exactly four years ago. At the time, when we were doing refere….

RT @joshk: What @usecache has built is so impressive. Their exchange fund allows you to diversify your concentrated stock position without….

RT @btrenchard: In all my time at @firstround, I’ve never seen back-to-back funding rounds happen this fast. The @RilletHQ team has raised….

YouTube: Spotify: Apple:

“If you’re a strong founder, you can sell anything. You can get weak product-market fit out of almost any idea — and that’s a problem.”. As a three-time founder, Immad Akhund is extra wary of the delusions of company-building. It was “blazingly obvious” that his third company

@clay_gtm Clay’s path to product-market fit: Clay’s GTM playbook: More on their Series C in The New York Times today:

Just a few of the unconventional decisions that made @clay_gtm a $3.1B company:. -Pivoting from a horizontal product to focus on outbound salespeople as an ICP, even though it meant churning almost all early customers. -Prioritizing flexibility over usability when designing the

RT @brettberson: From our earliest conversations with the @clay_gtm team in 2017, it was clear they had the potential to create something m….

@karrisaarinen @linear Read the full story about Linear's path to product-market fit on The Review:.

Sometimes, the longer you let a startup idea simmer, it's easier (and faster) to build. @karrisaarinen and his co-founders spent over a year validating the idea for @linear while still at their day jobs, running lightweight user research with their coworkers at Airbnb, Coinbase

YouTube: Spotify: Apple:

“A founder isn’t made when you decide to start a company or raise money. A founder is made when you get feedback and interpret it correctly,” says @qasar, founder and CEO of Applied Intuition, a $15B company at the cutting edge of vehicle software and autonomy. In this episode

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RT @ramongberrios: Incredible journey. Good things happen to good people. Got to witness Burkay building this one from the beginning. @bur….

@figma Learn from these Figma alums on The Review:

Fresh off of @figma's debut as $FIG on the NYSE, everyone’s reflecting back on how this company got built and, more importantly, celebrating the people who did it. We’ve been fortunate to interview a number of Figmates in more than a decade of sharing company building advice on.