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𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 #𝟏𝟬𝟯 𝗔𝗜 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 | 𝐂𝐨-𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐲𝗽𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐭 𝗔𝗜 | 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐩 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 I sat down with @rishmitra, co-founder and…
if talent density is everything than technically Google ($GOOG) should be winning all things AI by now they have accumulated the best talent consistently over the last two decades
“Mark Zuckerberg called to keep him at Facebook. He left to build @statsig instead.” One of the best transitions-from-big-tech-to-founder stories I’ve heard 👇 full conversation: startupproject.substack.com/p/statsig-foun…
“@statsig processes 1.6 trillion events. Every. Single. Day.” To put that in perspective: 18 million events per second. Here’s how a startup built the infra to handle it — and the lessons from getting there. full conversation at: startupproject.substack.com/p/statsig-foun…
AI Talent War Update: Microsoft poaches 20 people from Google's DeepMind research division.
PSA — Board of Directors are responsible for hiring or firing the CEO.
Not every founder needs to be a Twitter personality. It’s become conventional wisdom that every startup CEO should be building an audience on social. But what if the ROI just isn’t there? In the new Startup Project episode with @eagerber, we challenge the idea that personal…
Controversial take — Most startups struggle to find a problem that's worth solving and stick with the wrong problem for longer time than they should.
🔥 MIND-BLOWING startup reality! 🔥 Big company = shop in a BUSY MALL Startup = shop in the DESERT This analogy from Statsig's Vijaye Raji is INSANE! The go-to-market struggle is REAL! @vijayeraji @statsig
It feels like we are in the 2021 era of optimism but this time we are actually building things that are useful and not just going to Art Basel to trade NFTs. The proof is in the ARR.
vscode is one the best products that came out from Microsoft And they open sourced it which led to the creation of: - cursor - windsurf
Google vs direct traffic: Jared Siegal observes the mix is changing — more direct visits, fewer search referrals. No clear sign of ChatGPT sending traffic yet, but something is shifting in how people find content. We explore this on the Startup Project Podcast.…
young founders have lot of time, but bad ideas older founders have less time, but good ideas
AI in search is changing the game for publishers – and not for the better. Jared Siegal saw traffic plunge for some sites (and rise for others) after Google’s AI updates. We dig into how these shifts impact publishers on the Startup Project Podcast. startupproject.substack.com/p/how-ai-is-sh…
Is there any thing in the past that's comparable to the AI talent wars of 2025? Has this proven to be a successful strategy? how many these hires become rest and vest people? or may be that's already factored into Zuccs strategy
BREAKING: OpenAI rearchers Jason Wei and Hyung Won Chung are rumored to have been poached by Meta.
the difference between vibe coding and coding is if you can scale it in production