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I expose how billion-dollar empires were really built. The real stories of capitalism. Building the #1 business page on X

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    Elon Musk on why Tesla and SpaceX no longer need him the way they used to: Two companies, two different reasons they run without him. Musk lays out both and the contrast is the wh…

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    Can you objectively evaluate a company you've sat with for three years? Sequoia's answer: harness the insight of the person closest to it, then bring in fresh eyes anyway.

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    Dalton Caldwell on how Magic pivoted into a profitable company: "They actually built the Magic prototype in a weekend. No joke." Magic was in Winter 15, and they pivoted during th…

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    Stripe drops your actual API keys straight into its sample code. Copy. Paste. It just works. Tiny detail. Elite developer experience.

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    In 2013, four Stanford students built a site called https://t.co/yklnrSAkO5 in under an hour. No app. No checkout. You called a Google Voice number that rang all four founders' ph…

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    Sam Altman on the 8 months when OpenAI had GPT-4 and almost no one else knew: After OpenAI finished training GPT-4, there were about 8 months before it was released. During that s…

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    While his Stanford classmates planned summer trips to Europe, Tony Xu gave a very different answer: He'd be delivering hummus in his Honda. That summer, DoorDash was in Y Combinat…

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    Daniel Ek on why 4-hour podcasts and short-form clips are both growing at the same time: Ek is asked about a trend that seems contradictory. People supposedly have the attention s…

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    Before Segment became a billion-dollar data company, it was a button students pressed when they were lost in class. Professors liked it. Schools adopted it. YC's Dalton Caldwell o…

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    Spotify founder Daniel Ek builds the product backwards: Start with the perfect Spotify, then work toward it. His version of perfect? An app that plays exactly what you want in tha…

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    Sequoia's Roelof Botha: "There's this insecurity that we have at Sequoia that really drives us." Jack Altman asks Roelof what it's like to lead a firm where "this thing is big and…

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    Spotify was built on the open internet. Daniel Ek came of age during the net neutrality fight. 20 years later, he says smartphones have closed that internet back down. That's why…

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    Sam Altman on the most controversial decision in OpenAI's history: "The most controversial decision we made in the history of OpenAI was what we now call iterative deployment." @s…

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    Sequoia has had only a handful of leaders in 50+ years. Roelof Botha joined in 2003, co-ran US venture from 2010, took over the US business in 2017, and became senior steward in 2…

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    Musk hedges the moment Döpfner asks if Neuralink is still his most important project: "I said it could be. I wouldn't say for sure it is the most important." Then the actual pitch…

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    Reza Satchu was asked to be on the show that became Shark Tank. He said no and gave them Kevin O'Leary's name instead. Satchu tells O'Leary the story directly. He was asked to be…

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    A young Bill Gates would get up in the middle of the night to use a lab computer that sat idle from midnight to 3am. Computer time was that scarce, which is exactly why he recogni…

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    Bill Gates tells the story of Microsoft, from a "crazy" dream to the world's most valuable company: Microsoft began with a name and a dream. As Brad Smith puts it to Gates: "You a…