Meet Blake and Zach founders of Cal AI (on track to do ~$50M this year), just cashed out and are already back at it. Blakes new project is called 10X App Builder. The pitch: Shopify, but for apps. Hel
Introducing the YC Early Access Network. 4x a year, senior technology leaders get early looks at YC's enterprise AI companies and help shape their roadmaps. Invite-only, by application. Fall '26 kicks
How Dolly Parton used her success to help millions
Sarah built Stella, a manifesting app that hit $340K/month in just 2 months after launch. 12,000 paying customers. 200K+ downloads. Built the MVP in 2 days. But when asked what advice she’d give herse
Why Jeff Bezos sent employees just a question mark?
Harnesses get dismissed as just scaffolding, just prompt engineering, and not real research. But that couldn't be farther from the truth. The same model weights that score 30% on ARC-AGI score 95% wit
*$1M+ problems worth solving (90+ business ideas):* https://clickhubspot.com/0ccc Episode 859: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to Danny Yeung ( https://x.com/DannyYeung_ ) about how he buil
How to lose a sale: get the prospect to disagree with you. How to never have them disagree: answer their questions with questions about their questions. The person who gives concrete responses now has
Why Dolly Parton rejected Elvis’ offer
Meet Roman. He built Career Hound, a simple job board website that makes around $25K/month. It's a saturated idea, but the reason he's successful is NOT about the product. It's all about the marketing
Gaurav launched Fastlane just two months ago. It’s already doing $69K/month, over 1,000 paid users, and $1M ARR across the business. Here’s the exact stack running it: Convex for backend + database Ve
The fastest path to $10M is often not the fastest path to $100m. In this way, patience is strategy.
“Follow your passion” is based on the assumption that you can’t learn to love things. If you can, then start doing something that makes you money. And the better you’ll get at it, the more you’ll like
The hard work of entrepreneurship is the failure that you're inevitably going to encounter by not knowing what you're doing and then taking action steps despite that, with the idea that you will event
Everybody is an employee. You either work for your boss or your customers are your boss.
When people copy - they copy the wrong stuff because they don’t know why it worked to begin with. And when it breaks - they don’t know how to fix it because they didn’t build it. So don’t sweat it. Co
Paul Graham on what drives founders through the hard parts: “Being dutiful is not enough. The obstacles are too fearsome for mere dutifulness.” “You know what actually motivates founders day to day? T
Bro went from three guys in a basement to $1.5M a year with two app ideas. Meet Kyle. He built Cardstock (a sports card value scanner) and Scanémon (same thing but for Pokémon). Together they do $120K
