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Business productivity shouldn't mean going all-in on Google or Microsoft. Proton Mail is email + calendar that's built for teams that care about privacy and security [4]. It's trusted by over 50k businesses and 100 million people around the world.
Google paid $2.4B to Windsurf just to get its AI talent fast. Meta is poaching AI researchers for NBA superstar money. The race shows how much A-players matter at every level. Netflix treats companies like sports teams, not families, ruthlessly keeping the best talent. Real performers are the "drivers," while everyone else is just a passenger along for the ride. One hiring rule stands out: pick the motivated hard worker over the brilliant slacker every time.
Founders are starting to treat LLMs like new distribution rails, not just search engines. Instead of competing for top spots on Google, they're optimizing to appear directly in answers from ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. These models reward schema, clarity, citations, and presence across trusted sources, not just backlinks and keywords. When done right, it's like owning a seat in the AI's memory. LLM SEO isn't just a trend, it's an overlooked edge with compounding returns.
Mercury CEO Immad Akhund focused on scaling while maintaining high product quality by enhancing risk and compliance teams and launching new financial tools like invoicing and spend management. They created small, independent product teams to innovate while keeping core products strong, exemplified by the successful launch of Mercury Personal for consumer accounts. Akhund emphasized hiring passionate talent, managing "product debt" effectively, and leveraging existing customer behavior to expand services.
Keyword research is like writing bad survey questions - it assumes what people want before asking. A pizza shop targeting "Domino's" keywords gets clicks from people who specifically want Domino's, not any pizza. This seems obvious once pointed out, but most SEO starts with chasing high-volume keywords anyway. The author's client proved this wrong. Instead of writing another generic "best parenting tips" article (huge search volume), they wrote about the psychological cost of giving screens to toddlers. Zero people searched for that exact phrase, but parents loved it so much that it created its own search demand.
Effortless voice dictation in every application.
Simulated users for customer interviews.
Motherboard is a tool that lets founders track key business metrics from any website in one private, local dashboard.
Delphi Digital has launched Delphi Intelligence, a dedicated research platform focused on AI, robotics, and emerging tech. Backed by its experience in crypto, it has already invested in 20+ AI x crypto startups, incubated projects through AI-focused accelerators, and built a growing research team. The platform offers in-depth, public reports on key AI developments, with the aim of becoming a leading hub for high-signal analysis in the space.
Sub-$1M ARR startups went from 13 people in 2022 to just 7 today, while companies over $50M ARR saw efficiency drop 34%. Public SaaS now takes 57 months to recover sales costs - nearly five years. Early-stage teams figured out what big companies missed by hiring former founders who do everything. One person runs content and paid ads, GTM hires code like engineers, and each employee manages AI agents instead of people. Big companies keep adding specialists and management layers while startups just give everyone AI and let them run wild.
Everyone thought AI would simplify software - turns out we were wrong. Google's 2015 paper showed machine learning was just a tiny black box surrounded by massive infrastructure. AI was supposed to fix this - drop in an LLM and watch it work. Makes you wonder - are we making progress or just shifting complexity around?
VCs act like SAFEs and convertible notes are the same thing - they're not.
Sometimes the problem isn't the employee - it's you.
Boris Cherny and Cat Wu are reportedly back at Anthropic after departing for Anysphere, the developer of Cursor.