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Paul Graham shares that in office hours with founders, he spends most of the time reassuring them, indicating they are doing well; otherwise, he would focus on their concerns.
The article discusses the background of Mehul Nariyawala and Navneet Dalal, co-founders of Matic Robots, who previously built Flutter at Google and later created an intuitive home robot after years of stealth development.
Sam Altman shares advice on founder delegation, arguing that founders should hold on to the one or two most critical areas of the business themselves and delegate the rest, avoiding the common mistakes of over- or under-delegating.
Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen and Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan discuss how startup founders' initial visions often evolve and expand as they learn from customers, arguing that too much certainty about the vision is probably wrong.
A report on 37 former OpenAI and Anthropic employees who left to launch their own AI startups in 2026, spanning areas like automated research, AI alignment, personal AI, and agentic automation.
Marc Andreessen shares two reasons why founder-run companies are harder to disrupt: founders remember starting from zero and carry moral authority that lets them push drastic changes, unlike professional CEOs.
A founder recounts leaving Dropbox with his co-founder, taking months off during COVID, and then deciding to start Convex together.
Jeff Dean and longtime Google collaborators announce Discovery Loop, a new Public Benefit Corporation aimed at automating machine learning research.
Discovery Loop is a new AI research lab founded by Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals to automate scientific and engineering experimental loops using frontier AI models and large-scale infrastructure.
Founders discuss the difficulty of diagnosing user churn in PLG AI tools, where traditional analytics fail and ad-hoc debugging with Claude is common.
A story from Founders Podcast about how Shopify founder Tobi Lütke convinced DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson) early on that AI would be revolutionary, highlighting insights on Shopify's advanced internal AI tools.
A founder shares advice on how to make the most of YC AI SUS to improve chances of getting into Y Combinator, including networking with peers, talking to YC partners, and leaving with actionable outcomes.
A look at where Y Combinator alumni founders are now, with many gravitating toward top AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.
This thread explores how math/programming Olympiad backgrounds mass-produce tech founders, pointing out that the internalized systematic problem-solving ability, belief, and peer effect from the competition paradigm are the core engine, with quantitative finance as a transfer station, but also reminds that entrepreneurship requires skills beyond problem-solving.
Two founders from ElevenLabs are building for the next century, with a backdrop from the 17th century.
Peter Thiel shares insights on why founders are crucial for building great companies, contrasting them with professional CEOs and using Mark Zuckerberg's rejection of Yahoo's acquisition as an example.
TechCrunch revealed the Builders Stage agenda for Disrupt 2026, featuring practical sessions on fundraising, hiring, go-to-market strategy, and AI for scaling startups, with speakers from Gamma, Precedent.vc, and Google.
Gergely Orosz promotes a weekend workshop led by @clairevo for executives and founders, focusing on practical AI adoption strategies for teams and product development.
David Senra recommends a podcast conversation with Scott Wu, the founder of Cognition and creator of Devin, the first AI software engineer, comparing him to a young Bill Gates.
A blog post discusses adverse selection in venture capital, where less successful VCs become more harmful to founders, creating a vicious cycle. It includes quotes from industry figures.