Simon Last at Notion runs coding agents on a single session for days, sometimes weeks, and they remember the patterns they learned on day one. The biggest mistake teams still make is scoping tasks for an afternoon when the right size is work that would take a strong engineer multiple weeks. Your job is to write plan docs faster than the agent burns through them, and to have a second read-only agent review every diff before anything ships.
The day after the President signed the executive order on financial technology, the Federal Research Board released a formal proposal to establish a special-purpose 'Payment Account', a streamlined, payments-only account category designed to bypass the traditional Master Account bottleneck. This framework promises a 90-day review timeline for Tier 2 and Tier 3 non-bank applications. While this sounds like a massive win, the operational reality is a lot more complicated. This article looks at the core opportunities, constraints, and economic hurdles to consider.
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OpenAI's new ChatGPT feature, available inside Microsoft PowerPoint, allows users to build and edit presentations using the AI chatbot. The feature allows users to describe what they want, and the assistant generates an initial structure from that input. The tool can modify or insert slides and also apply reasoning to a finished deck to surface weak points in the narrative or predict objections that audiences may bring up. The feature is available to users on all subscription levels. It can be added either through the Microsoft marketplace or through PowerPoint's own interface.
Google Docs Live combines an AI conversation mode with word processing to help users create first drafts. Users just start talking, and it makes sense of the input and forms it into something workable. The feature is still in an early version. This article reviews the prerelease, noting the mistakes it makes, and suggests possible improvements to the system.
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12 AI labs have a combined valuation larger than Ford and GM, but none of them sell anything. These Virgin Unicorns are valued at over a billion dollars but are innocent of product or revenue. Sophisticated investors are writing growth-stage checks to these pre-companies because the potential payoff is huge. This has not played out well in the past.
Google is doubling down on hiring forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) and making the interview process much simpler. Its hiring process has been shortened from four to six interviews over the course of weeks to as few as two interviews in just two days. OpenAI has outsourced its FDE hiring spree, and Anthropic plans to use outsourced FDE recruitment. The new FDE roles could be a great opportunity for early-career software engineers entering the industry.
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Headless interfaces are plastic, malleable to the interface users need when they need it.
a16z and others treat content as core to their business amidst AI making software cheaper and distribution channels busier.
Lemkin typed a single run-on lowercase sentence into Replit asking for an attendee card page that uploads a headshot and generates a 1080x1080 image, and five minutes later the agent had built circular cropping, three background options, editable text, PNG export, wired the route, added a footer link, and deployed to production.
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Customers are wandering through B2B sales calls so confused right now that a clear point of view on the future of your category is no longer optional. They want answers on whether your SaaS product will be fronted by chat, by agents, by humans, or some mix, and they want them in the room. Position against the competitors on their short list today, not the AI-native ones you're afraid will exist next year, but build the roadmap to beat those future ones anyway. Hype the future where you have to, but tie every claim to a feature you can ship now, or you'll lose the deal to indecision or look like a legacy company without a path forward.
Cursor, Decagon, and OpenAI are aggressively hiring SDRs while the rest of the market cut SDR roles by 21% year over year. The companies whose entire pitch is "AI replaces sales" doubled their own SDR headcount this year. Customer support was the one role they actually automated away, down 37%, the biggest drop of any GTM function. GTM engineering doubled to 400+ across US digital natives, Claude mentions in GTM engineering job posts tripled in one quarter, and 3 in 5 open GTM roles are still AEs or solution engineers because buyers still want to talk to a human.
Anthropic's commercial team was not ready for the vertical growth the company was about to experience when Claude Opus 4.6 shipped in December. The company couldn't absorb the incoming flow of customers while still delivering a positive customer experience. It rebuilt its entire sales org from scratch in January, and now 54% of new enterprise logos come through the self-serve funnel. This article details how Anthropic pulled it off and provides tips that any B2B or AI sales leader can copy today.
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) is the hottest role in tech right now. The FDE is a highly skilled engineer who can understand customers' problems very deeply, write code, and communicate business impact to non-technical decision makers. It is a role that requires the engineer to be on-site with customers. This article explains why Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and other AIs are looking for FDEs, and how workers can capitalize on this demand.
Facebook used to spend its first ten days with you trying to get you to add seven friends, because the friend graph was the product. TikTok overlaid an interest graph onto Musically's video player and suddenly the feed felt "For You." The next graph is the identity graph, the unstructured stuff that makes you who you are (job, worldview, family, and hobbies), that AI can finally piece together. Whoever connects those signals first wins the next decade of consumer.
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A founder mental health survey, anonymous, built on validated clinical instrument. PHQ-9 for depression, GAD-7 for anxiety, ASRS for ADHD, MBI-GS for burnout, plus founder-specific sections on cofounder relationships, ambition, and identity-merge with the company.
Blunt feedback can be life-changing if it comes from someone with the right intent and astute judgment in the specific subject matter. Some people use blunt feedback as a weapon for manipulation. Even if they have the right intent, they might not have the skill to give the correct feedback. In many cases, you have to have the confidence to ignore the feedback or significantly adapt it so it actually works.
Will Manidis dissects the founder-suffering content genre as secular hagiography, where podcasters chronicle the seven-day workweeks, office sleeping arrangements, and 20 employees tattooing the company logo on their bodies without ever asking what the company does, because the suffering itself is the product rather than any output. Manidis distinguishes hard companies from "grindslop" companies, where performed labor exists to answer the question meritocratic culture cannot otherwise answer: why do you deserve so much.
Pinterest's search data showed "analog aesthetic" up 260% and "dumb phone" up 150%, so they ran a phone-free activation at Coachella with Yondr pouches and keychain-embellishing tables. eBay just hosted Julia Fox's 450-piece stoop sale in Tribeca with proceeds going to a Rikers book club. That's what an IRL activation looks like when the consumer insight matches the brand, versus an influencer dinner that gets fifteen minutes of fame. The feed is infinite, the room is not, and the brands treating IRL as a growth function will outrun the ones still chasing CAC on the timeline.
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Thoughts from a member of the recent YC batch on how OpenAI's offer of $2 million in tokens will affect how the cohort builds its products.
Gamma co-founder Grant Lee challenges the market-validation gospel by citing a Crunchbase study where 34% of 205 failed startups reported "impressive traction" in fundraising materials months before dying, arguing downloads, sign-ups, and press are lagging indicators dressed up as proof.
There are numerous business configurations beyond high-growth startups that can align with personal life goals.
Somewhere in your company right now, a designer is agonizing over pixel spacing on a prototype that engineering is going to rebuild from scratch.
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Companies are shipping so much that they aren't learning anything. They are able to build a lot more, but learning hasn't caught up. Learning capacity has become a bottleneck. Shipping too fast can become expensive as a habit. The discipline to learn has to come from the founder.
Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch has 199 companies. Most are building AI tools. OpenAI's offer of $2 million API credits for every YC startup potentially totals $400 million in credits. The company is asking for 2% equity per startup at $100 million valuations. There is a risk that OpenAI may study and copy ideas.
Primitive Crypto's Dovey Wan reports a real founder identity crisis in SF and Shenzhen, with multiple founders returning capital to join US LLM labs or Chinese robotics companies because the opportunity cost feels higher than running their own startup. Hyper-industrialized AI in biotech, robotics, aerospace, defense, and energy is capital-dense, regulation-heavy, and sovereign-guarded, ruling out the college-dropout path, while a fintech-2010s analog plays out as operators buy legacy ops and rewire them with AI for hybrid operators rather than default tech founders.
Marc Benioff went on 20VC and said something Salesforce literally cannot deliver. He wishes every customer could fully deploy his software before signing the contract. The CEO of the biggest B2B SaaS company in history is publicly conceding that the agentic era broke his core motion. The product has to work on day 30, not year 3, and a Series A now goes to founders growing $2M to $500M like Replit, not the $10M to $20M that used to be a slam dunk.
Token control matters, but the bigger enterprise risk is letting the same vendor own the context layer. Enterprises can rent intelligence from whoever is best, but they should own the memory layer that makes intelligence useful. Models and agents will converge, but a company's working memory will not because it is made of promises, exceptions, scars, and decisions.
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Personal Injury succeeded as a business category by finding an economical way of making a value-aligned results-based service appeal to lots of people. The industry discovered unit economics that made a service that was previously out of scope for most people possible at scale. AI is in a similar position: it is an accelerator or enabler of new consumer business models.
Advisors should fill genuine gaps in knowledge and connections, not be used as workarounds for needed hires. Real relationships, not formal agreements with strangers, provide meaningful advisory benefits. Engaging advisors who understand and support the business without requiring frequent meetings adds real value.
Deel is growing 50% at $1.5B ARR with 17% EBITDA margins. Nobody public except Palantir is matching that pace. The CFO calls 2026 "accelerate or die" and Deel is treating it like a literal deadline. They opened a "Ghostbuster" role with a $10M waste-cutting target, shipped four major AI launches in three weeks, bought Sastrify, and the underlying story is that this playbook only works for companies sitting on a real moat to reinvest into, which Deel quietly built in payroll a decade ago.
The person you're asking to forward your intro should be able to hit F in Superhuman, type one line on top, and send it.
Win the game in front of you, but build like the game never ends.