Lessons for Founders

Old habits die hard. At YC I would give a lot of advice to founders, so it’s hard not to offer a few thoughts for anyone building a venture-backed silicon valley company.

First: it is your responsibility to have a direct conversation with your customers, constituents, potential employees—whoever. Even if it’s personally taxing,... See more

Vicente jokes that they have an internal “wrapper-death countdown” which keeps track of the number of days the company survived since the last time it was “pronounced dead.” Here are his thoughts on how startups can be successful in a market where the capabilities of frontier models continues to expand: • Do one thing really well. Vicente takes the

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