The issue is that very few B2C startups have turned into big companies over the last decade. Doesn't mean more won't, but rate of success has been super super low.
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Y Combinator’s Track Record: 90 Unicorns and Series A Success
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@YCombinator is widely regarded as the most successful startup accelerator in the world and the top choice for world-class entrepreneurs. They've helped incubate more than 90 unicorns, 45% of their companies go on to raise a Series A (higher than the 33% average), and the -
Duolingo’s Internal Handbook Shares Product Building Strategy
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The @duolingo team just published their internal handbook sharing how they build product, hire, experiment, and build a brand around "wholesome and unhinged" Lots of good ideas to borrow/steal for your own team. Check it out: https://
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Smaller AI models drive down intelligence costs across industries
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Some key takeaways: 1. AI’s rapidly improving capabilities mean that the cost of reasoning and intelligence is dropping. This opens up opportunities to integrate smarter, smaller models into products. Whether you’re building for health care, education, or another industry, think
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Karina Nguyen leads AI research at OpenAI advancing language models
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Karina Nguyen (@karinanguyen_) leads a research team at @OpenAI, where she’s been pivotal in developing Canvas, Tasks, and the o1 language model. Prior to OpenAI, Karina was at @Anthropic, where she led post-training and evaluation work for Claude 3 models, and contributed to… pic.twitter.com/8kMbXv97yt
— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) 9 février 2025Karina Nguyen (
@karinanguyen
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, where she’s been pivotal in developing Canvas, Tasks, and the o1 language model. Prior to OpenAI, Karina was at @Anthropic
, where she led post-training and evaluation work for Claude 3 models, and contributed to -
Product Leaders Must Inspire Team Passion and Commitment
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" It is not possible to make great products if the people who work on it do not give a shit about the product.
— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) 8 février 2025
And I actually think this is a very important role for product leaders—to make sure that the team gives a shit." — @tobi pic.twitter.com/JpnSHOVujN" It is not possible to make great products if the people who work on it do not give a shit about the product. And I actually think this is a very important role for product leaders—to make sure that the team gives a shit." — @tobi
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Free Lightning Lesson on PM Overwhelm Management
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Hot tip: @talraviv has powerful free 30 minute lightning lesson coming up on handling overwhelm as a PM.
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Shopify Rejects Metrics-Driven Decisions for Human Leadership
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"We believe that having metrics make the decisions for us is an abdication of our responsibility to be the leaders of the space.
— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) 7 février 2025
Shopify is comfortable with unquantifiable things such as tastes, quality, passion, love, and hate.
The strong emotions that people have is a better… pic.twitter.com/trljLaNG4w"We believe that having metrics make the decisions for us is an abdication of our responsibility to be the leaders of the space. Shopify is comfortable with unquantifiable things such as tastes, quality, passion, love, and hate. The strong emotions that people have is a better
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Alpha Lies in Obvious Truths Business Dismisses
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"Almost all the alpha in the world is now in the things that are unobvious but true. The things that people dismiss as naive. […] There's an aesthetic in the world that exists where business people dress in suits and ties. They speak much more sophisticated than I do. Usually
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Major AI Tools Partnership Launch Announcement
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A huge thank you to @itsDrDrewithaSh and @estelopez_ for making this all happen, and to our incredible partners @NotionHQ @Superhuman @linear @perplexity_ai @meetgranola for taking a shot on this wild idea.