Ronnie Fieg · Kith
Free
Passionate About 100% of It
Ronnie Fieg went from 13-year-old stock boy to running Kith, which now releases more than 5,000 styles a year with no wholesale and no licensing.
· 5 min read
Builders
Brian Armstrong · Coinbase
Free
Bank the AIs
76% of the AI agent payments Coinbase sees are under 30 cents, less than a card's minimum fee. Brian Armstrong wants to give agents their own bank accounts.
· 4 min read
Molly Graham · Glue Club
Free
Keep Some Legos From the Interns
For 13 years Molly Graham told people to give their work away as companies grow. AI changed her advice, and she explains how.
· 4 min read
Paul Graham · Y Combinator
Free
Most of Starting a Startup Is Always the Same
After 21 years of YC, Paul Graham says almost nothing about winning founders has changed. The one new expense is tokens.
· 5 min read
Noah Shinn · Instinct
Free
Software Collapses Into One Text Thread
Instinct has no app, just a phone number and an email address. It's growing 10% a day and already handles $1 billion a year in purchases.
· 5 min read
Adam Neumann · WeWork
Free
The Company Outgrew Its Founder
Adam Neumann says WeWork started to fall apart on one walk down 54th Street, minutes after Masayoshi Son wrote $4.2 billion on an iPad.
· 5 min read
Daniel Dines · UiPath
Free
AI Needs a Map of Work
UiPath's founder wants to hire an AI, hand it a laptop and a Slack login, and let it learn the job. He says that still can't happen, and explains what's missing.
· 5 min read
Grant LaFontaine · Whatnot
Free
Start With Funko Pops, Build a $20 Billion Marketplace
Whatnot started with used Funko Pops while famous investors passed. It is now a $20 billion marketplace.
· 5 min read
Jagjit Chawla · Meta
Free
Meta used AI coding to give Facebook's power users their own apps
Meta now builds small apps just for Facebook's power users, because AI made them cheap enough to be worth it.
· 1 min read
Alex Mashrabov · Higgsfield
Free
A Billion Dollars With Zero Paid Ads
Higgsfield burned $10 million of its seed chasing hype. Then it grew from $1 million to $1 billion in yearly revenue in 18 months, with no paid ads.
· 4 min read
Ali Ghodsi · Databricks
Free
Find the One Bottleneck and Overdo It
Ali Ghodsi took the Databricks CEO job as a trial with $1.5 million in revenue. It now does $7 billion, and he credits one rule.
· 5 min read
Parag Agrawal · Parallel
Free
Agents Will Use the Web 1,000x More
Parag Agrawal built Parallel on one bet, that AI agents will use the web 1,000 times more than people do.
· 4 min read