Most people treat "not VC-backed" as a consolation prize. Greg Isenberg and Derek Andersen (Startup Grind) make the actual case for why that's backwards. The real numbers: venture funding works for less than 1% of companies create…
Mark Cuban said something at the RAISE Summit that cuts through the AI hype cycle. His argument: if AI were actually "done," you wouldn't see Microsoft hiring 6,000 people. You wouldn't see Anthropic and OpenAI deploying forwa…
Claire Vo built ChatPRD to 100,000 users as the only full-time human in the company. Bootstrapped. Zero VC. She runs it with nine named AI agents — each scoped to a specific job. Not one all-knowing bot. Nine specialists. She calls them OpenC…
You could be about to make the exact mistake Alex Hormozi keeps seeing: founders getting so excited about AI that they automate the wrong thing, faster. He reviewed a business paying 11 VAs $11K/month for data cleaning. Worked fine. So they spe…
Alexandr Wang just did his first long interview since Meta paid a fortune to bring him in — and the most useful part wasn't the gossip, it was the mechanism. 🧠 His actual argument: a small team where everyone is genuinely elite will always mo…
Most operators think 15% payroll-to-revenue is already lean. Sean Frank, CEO of Ridge, runs at 7%. The mechanism behind it isn't magic — it's structural. Shopify replaces the web dev team. Meta's algorithm replaces a chunk of the acqu…
Groq was three weeks from running out of cash. Founder Jonathan Ross was staring at a list of names his leadership team had put together for layoffs — and realized cutting them would kill the product before it ever hit the technical milestone it …
