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Cybersecurity is where the most startups now work with Mars, says its digital chief
13 takeaways: Why a bought CRM beat a built one at Royal Canin, the Work-Bench rule of buy to operate and build to differentiate, and the headache she…
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Hard tech went from 8% to 20% of the batch, Y Combinator finds
16 numbers: Why one in six summer-batch founders has a PhD, how median revenue by the end of a batch tripled to $20K a month, and the dozen data…
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Garry Tan: OpenAI Hands Any YC Company $2M in Tokens, No Strings Attached
6 takeaways: why a quarter of this YC batch is hard tech, what Tan thinks the AI-safety debate is missing, and the founders replacing 2,000-person…
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Xavier Chi: no robotics software company has hit scale yet
7 lessons: Why an 8-hour, 99.6% test run matters more than a stage demo, the "impossible triangle" that has sunk robotics startups, and why he doesn't…
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Yaroslav Azhnyuk: in 5 to 10 yrs it will be unethical to use weapons without AI
15 takeaways: the arithmetic that turns a $500 drone into a $5M problem, why 4 of 20 over Poland was a disaster, and what he thinks China could park off…
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Aaron Cannon: Outset's digital twins let anyone in a company interview a customer who is not there | TBPN
The Outset chief executive on tripled revenue, why hard-to-reach audiences are the wedge, what a grounding interview buys, and the agents he wants doing…
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Rob Snyder: not all revenue growth is created equal, and the buyers who matter buy despite the product | Motley Fool Money
Why growth funded by aggressive sales and marketing doesn't last, why net revenue retention beats a satisfaction score, and the question every software…
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Max Junestrand: The YC interview that ended in laughter, a six-month sales freeze, and 3% of the world's lawyers on one product | Y…
Why Legora bet on the models improving instead of fine-tuning its own, what a 23-year-old top seller taught it about hiring, and how nagging got Jude…
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Susan Kare: how an art history PhD got the Macintosh job, the bomb icon that scared a customer into calling Apple, and Paul Rand's $100,000…
Why Steve Jobs told her not to buy Apple stock, where the command key symbol actually came from, and what a dollar gift shop taught her about what…
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Jason Calacanis: Nvidia's $12.9 billion Hugging Face deal is the story of the year, unmetered racks are the threat to OpenAI and Anthropic…
Plus the 100-company warning that AI-enabled cyberattacks are months away, a cargo rocket built by seven people, and why an AI-written op-ed under…
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