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Second-time founders build differently
You can steal their hard-earned lessons
You would expect building your second startup to be much easier than building your first.
Time-to-trust problem
Instinct is building an AI assistant that becomes more useful the more access you give it.
We spent the last 20 years teaching people not to give random companies access to their passwords, emails, financial information, location, messages...
Context debt
Your company knows more than it remembers
Earlier this month, AI entrepreneur Allie K. Miller went on The Startup Ideas Podcast and shared that she runs a company with 34 AI agents, including 1 AI chief of staff named Simon, 6 AI directors...
Levels of startup proof
A working demo is not a working business
AI has made it incredibly easy to build something impressive.
Founder mentorship
I saw a post from Paul Graham on X the other day, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.
We usually think a good mentor is someone who spots problems, challenges your thinking, and tells you what you are missing. All of that ma...
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