Feeling PMF: Founder-led growth During early signs of traction, it is important to validate that the growth model hypothesis was correct. Founder-led growth is the best path here, where the founder drives growth efforts across product-led, marketing-led, or sales-led motions.
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Growth Strategy Before Product-Market Fit: Avoid Early Hiring
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2/ How does growth look at different company stages? Before PMF: Develop a growth model hypothesis Many founders get caught up in growth hype and try to hire growth talent early. Don’t fall victim to this trap—you will waste precious capital and equity for lackluster results.
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PMF validation must precede growth scaling
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Growth is about increasing the distribution of the core product. If there is no validation that the product has found PMF, growth has nothing to grow. PMF has to happen first, then growth.
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Apple App Store Model: GPT Derivatives Ecosystem Development
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Also what became really obvious after the app store was that Apple was not going to be designing/building/discovering the killer use cases for the iPhone (except maybe passbook). I think the same thing is going to probably be true about GPT/Llama derivatives.
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Stability AI x CogX Festival: Meet Emad Mostaque at O2 London
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Join The Research Revolution at Stability AI x CogX and meet @EMostaque on stage at the CogX Festival at the O2 on Wednesday, September 13th from 9:30–10:00 AM. #stabilityai #stabilityxcogx #AIcommunity #AIevents #AIresearchers #london Apply today https://
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Data Layer Revolution: Snowflake and Databricks Transform Enterprise Infrastructure
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If there is an "iPhone moment" happening right now, it's in the data layer. Snowflake and Databricks basically came in and re-wrote the entire process of storing and accessing data for, well, everything, and spawned a whole universe of $1B+ companies around the two.
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Every doubles audience to 90K readers, launches new products
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I’m also incredibly excited about @Every
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Lex Raises Funding for AI-Powered Word Processor
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And so we spun it out, and Nathan has moved over to run it full-time. With this new fundraise he'll be able to hire a team and build a modern, intelligent word processor for the AI age. I’m incredibly excited for the future of Lex, and I know @nbaschez is going to knock it out
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Lex AI Startup Spins Off After Rapid Internal Growth
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When we launched Lex almost a year ago, the original intention was to run it internally. But it started to grow so fast that it became obvious that it needed to become a separate venture-backed business.
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Every Builds AI Products Leveraging Writing Authority
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The beautiful thing about building a business like @Every is that our writing also gives us the audience and authority to build products. We've been building products from the beginning of Every, but we'd never seen anything like Lex.