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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.

TechCrunch announces its Founder Summit 2026 in Boston, a conference for founders to learn from peers and investors, with early bird pricing ending June 26.

This article explores the systemic risk posed by ideologically-driven founders in AI, using Anthropic as a case study, and draws parallels with historical tech leaders.

The post discusses how falling barriers to entry in AI development, through free AI agent builders, open-source models, and no-code tools, are enabling solo founders to launch products faster than ever before.

Dirac is an AI inbox that provides daily briefings for founders, launched on ProductHunt.

A tweet from GergelyOrosz highlights a critique of the startup culture of performative overwork, quoting Karri Saarinen on how successful people rarely need to publicly display intensity.

A data enthusiast scraped Founders Podcast episodes to chart how host David Senra measures his dinner meetings with founders, revealing an accelerating social calendar and a median dinner length of 3 hours.

In 2026, founders should prioritize spending tokens over headcount, record everything, make their companies queryable, and build self-improving loops for AI-driven transformation.

Paul Graham shares his opinion that emails written by AI feel like lies, causing him to think less of the author, and notes that any teenager can use AI to write.

L'article discute de l'origine des fondateurs étrangers de licornes aux États-Unis, avec une surprise sur la place des Indiens par rapport aux Français.

Paul Graham shares an insight about successful startups: each founder should be king of their own domain, using Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak as an example where Woz controlled the product and Jobs handled the business.

Naval Ravikant advises startup founders to code themselves rather than outsource, as it enables faster iteration cycles crucial in competitive web and mobile startup environments.

OnTheMap is a global map designed for builders, founders, and visionaries. It launched on Product Hunt to help geographically connect members of the startup ecosystem.

OpenAI announces Grove Cohort 2, a five-week in-person program in San Francisco for early-stage founders interested in building AI companies, offering mentorship from OpenAI researchers, early access to tools/models, and networking opportunities with ~15 participants.