Growth & Scaling

We’re Launching GR Angel: 53 Companies, $1.2B Raised, a Unicorn and Our First Exit

Mercury Crosses $1 Billion Annualized Revenue, CEO Shares on the Newcomer Podcast

The Agent Workforce Kit: Anthropic’s 8 Metrics, a Role Radar and 12 Claude Prompts

CoreWeave Crash, AI Trade Cracks, Anthropic IPO Red Flags, Bill Gates Doomer

The AI CEO Dashboard Kit: An Excel Model, 14 Checks and 10 Claude Prompts

BREAKING: Harvey x Sourcery

Rippling's Outbound GTM Strategy Is Worth $17B

The Truth: Why Lean AI Startups Are Beating Everyone Else

Data Insight: China reduced extreme poverty fast, but Indonesia hasn’t been far behind

BREAKING: Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity

🦄 Axios Pro Rata: Shattered decacorn records

Instinct Went From $2.5B to $10B in a Month on $0 of Marketing. Noah Shinn, 23, Explains How.

These Famous VC Mistakes Still Teach the Best Investing Lessons

The creative genius behind Squatty Potty & Poo-Pourri reveals his marketing playbook

For Three Years, Only Companies With Big Budgets Could Work With Me. Today That Changes

20VC: Is Seed Investing Dead Without a $1BN Fund? | Does Ownership and Price Matter When Companies Can Be $1TRN Exits | Are AI Revenue Numbers Real and What to Watch Out For with Venky Ganesan, Menlo Ventures

The Top 100 Consumer AI Apps: Who’s Actually Paying?

20VC: Instinct Raises $1B at $10B Valuation | AMD Buys Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B | Meta Poaches MongoDB's CEO | Bessemer Raises $5.75B | Oura Pulls IPO & Nubank Eyes $8–12B Monzo Takeover

Data Insight: Europe is older, but Latin America is aging faster

Uncapped #58 | David George from a16z

Axios Pro Rata: Food shopping

How Deel Scaled From $100M to $1B+ ARR in 3 Years

The Personal Agent Race Is Here | Anish Acharya & David Pawlan

20VC: $1BN ARR in 18 Months; The Untold Story of Higgsfield | Spending $4M Per Month on Models | Why Moats in AI are BS | Scaling a Content Team to 150 People with Alex Mashrabov

Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent - [Invest Like the Best, EP.493]

Weekly Funding rounds / Statistics / Insights of September 22, 2026

Whatnot founder: This is the future of e-commerce

Everyone Is Hiring for Judgment. Nobody Is Making It Anymore.

Adam Foroughi, Applovin CEO: Surviving a 92% Drawdown, Ads as ML 1.0 & the $50B Game Ad Market

90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief | Peter Sellis

Brad Gerstner on the Largest Wealth Transfer to America’s Kids

BREAKING: Luca Ferrari CEO of Bending Spoons

Bending Spoons Is Coming for Silicon Valley, with CEO Luca Ferrari

Meta's Dina Powell McCormick: The Case for Data Centers, Backlash, AI Job Boom & Meta's Future

20VC: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World: Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots Buying Cybercabs and more with Matteo Franceschetti, Co-Founder @ Eight Sleep

Why Companies Are Becoming a Series of Loops | Anish Acharya on Lenny’s Podcast

Travis Kalanick Says Excellence Is the Capacity to Take Pain. Here Are His 10 Rules for Building Through It.

Decoding Tony Hawk’s mindset in 72 minutes

Social Media Has Changed Forever. Time to Prepare.

Chart of the Day

Data Insight: In these nine African countries, average incomes have more than doubled since 1990

How we scaled to $100M in under a year (ft. IM8 co-founder Danny Yeung)

How to naturally monetize what you love

Oura's $1B+ pre-IPO buybacks

Chart of the Day

Data Insight: Money spent on building data centers in the US has grown 5-fold since late 2022

The Startup Marketing Advice Nobody Gives You Until You Have Wasted a Year

Gavin Baker: Why AI Demand Is Outrunning Compute Supply

Max Junestrand: You Need The Willingness To Learn Faster Than Anyone Else

Granola's Growth Playbook: Wedge, Moat, Pricing, Context Layer

Space tech has already blown past 2025 🚀

I built a $2,000,000,000 business on vibes

3 millionaires reveal their super niche businesses

The OWID Brief: Peak population, child labor, drivers of deforestation, air conditioning, and more

20VC: SpaceX Buys Cursor for $60BN | Stripe's $8BN OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600BN in Revenue? | Lovable and Higgsfield Raise Mega Rounds

How Whatnot Built a Global Marketplace

Chart of the Day

Data Insight: Guyana’s oil-driven economy has seen the world’s fastest growth in GDP per capita in recent years

20VC: Uber President on Budgeting AI at Uber: How AI Helps and Hurts Uber | Why Autonomy Is Existential | How to Beat DoorDash to #1 in Food | The Untold Stories of Travis Kalanick, Dara Khosrowshahi and China with Andrew MacDonald

Chart of the Day

3 strangers showed us how they made $8M, $10M, & $40M/year

Stripe’s AI Strategy: Build More, Not Less

20Growth: How to Build a $100M Growth Engine: Lessons from Wispr Flow and Superhuman | Why You Should Do Paid Ads Today and How To Do Them | How to Build the Best Referral Programs and How to Crush UGC with Matt Swulinski

BREAKING: Inside AppLovin's $100B+ Ad Engine

Building a $200M Bootstrapped Chess Empire with Chess.com CEO Erik Allebest

Data Insight: Air conditioning is almost universal in the US and Japan — but not elsewhere

20VC: Will OpenRouter Sell for $10BN to Stripe? | Why Chinese Open Models Are Beating America—and What Happens Next | Why Enterprises Are More Fearful of Anthropic and OpenAI Than China | Is the Routing Layer Becoming a Commodity with Alex Atallah

No revenue is enough revenue

9 drunk ideas that sound stupid (but are secretly genius)

Data Insight: Morocco now gets almost a quarter of its electricity from renewables, but still relies heavily on coal

How to Eliminate Churn for Good Before It Eats Your Growth

Gavin Baker - AI Market Jitters - [Invest Like the Best, EP.485]

We found the internet's best sales advice

Data Insight: Cereal yields have increased in all regions, but Africa lags behind

GTM in 2026: What's Actually Changed

The $10K Etsy niche nobody is running with Claude yet

The AI Layoff Trap⚠️, Agentic GTM🔍, The Next Era of VC Secondaries💰

Data Insight: Half of Nigeria’s population lives in cities

Charts of the Day

Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity”

Data Insight: In the past, most people worked in agriculture; in today’s rich countries, only a small share do

AI for America's Small Businesses | Lassie

💥How Top 5% VCs Keep Winning, Time Between Rounds, Reserve Strategies, State of SPVs & More

This guy made $80M in profit. Here's his next 3 stock picks

Every Tech Company Is Falling Into A Layoff Trap

Data Insight: Most of the world’s fastest-growing megacities will soon be in Africa

Killer marketing secrets that always work (ft. Ogilvy Adman, Rory Sutherland)

38,000 companies are hiding in plain sight. Here is the AI system to find them

The $150B dollar business hiding in plain sight

Chart of the Day

When $188B is quaint

The AI trade just lost $1 trillion. Here is where the value went

💥AI Kills Junior VC Roles, Fundraising Benchmarks, Mega-Funds Eating Themselves, Founder Branding System & More

The Trillion-Dollar Industries AI Is Disrupting: Voice, Law & the End of the Billable Hour

The AI Job Apocalypse Is a Complete Misread

Accel: The Quiet Firm Behind Facebook, Cursor, Nebius, Lovable, Vercel

Outsmarting Uber: Why Bolt Wins in Europe

Chart of the Day

Data Insight: Obesity rates in Pakistan have tripled in the last 20 years

The Software Handoff

Are Mega-Funds Taking Over Seed?

We found an app that lets you buy anything for $0

Axios Pro Rata: K-shaped shift

Mark Pincus: How to Build Billion-Dollar Products

BREAKING: Mark Pincus on How to Build Billion-Dollar Products

What’s Next for Consumer AI? | Josh Elman Joins a16z

Same round, different price tag

Jeff Bezos’s Economic Doctrine: 10 Ideas Founders and Investors Should Steal

Data Insight: Tobacco use in India has halved this century

The Free AI Kit That Turns Any Founder Into a Content Machine

We decoded the business behind this influencer’s perfect life

This is How You Get Your Homepage Viral

Sundar Pichai's 10-move restructuring playbook: what every founder and investor should steal before 2027

The Growth Playbook Behind One of AI's Fastest ARR Climbs

SpaceX Just Became the Biggest IPO in History. Here Is What Actually Happened

The most simplified breakdown of the SpaceX IPO on the internet

Samo Burja on Growth, Energy, and AI

Axios Pro Rata: SpaceX futures

Alex Sacerdote - How to Invest Through Technology Cycles - [Invest Like the Best, EP.477]

Tyler Cowen & Alex Tabarrok on AI, Jobs, and Economic Growth

Thomas Laffont: The $4T AI IPO Wave, 2026's Unicorn Economy, and the 10X Paradox

He quit Wall Street to sell meat (now he makes $270M/year)

The SaaS Metrics Dashboard Every Top Company Uses (Excel Sheet Included)

The One Trait You Need to Succeed in the Next 10 Years

Booming AI Revenues Boost Inference Startups to Decacorn Status

How Lovable hit $400M ARR in 14 months with 146 people and almost zero paid ads

Why $1B Exits are Dead

Data Insight: Most collected waste in many low- and middle-income countries is stored in open dumps or is burned

ICYMI: Stord Raises $250M at $3B Valuation

The OWID Brief: New population projections tool, childhood stunting, China’s electricity growth, and more

How to Win in Life With an Unfair Upside

How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

Data Insight: Tajikistan's remittances are worth nearly half the country’s GDP

Vanguard

We hit record on our private strategy session

How to manufacture a billionaire childhood

Charles & Chase Koch on How They Quietly Built a $150B Empire

SpaceX's IPO wild card

The Only Growth Model That Actually Explains Why You’re Growing (or Not)

Startup Growth Guide🔁, YC RFS💡, The Year of Churn💀

20VC: Inside Clay's Sales Playbook Scaling to $100M ARR | How to Set Sales Comp Plans | How to Read Sales Talent Linkedin Profiles | What Profiles to Hire & Fire | How to Increase Performance and Speed in Sales Teams with Becca Lindquist

Data Insight: India went from 15% to 70% Internet access in a decade, mostly through mobile phones

The Free AI Growth Kit That Founders Are Sharing Like Crazy Right Now

Data Insight: Teenage pregnancy rates have fallen across the world

The Only Startup Growth Guide You’ll Need in 2026

This guy built a $1B+ brand in 3 years. The product? You'd never guess

OpenAI's Identity Crisis, Datacenter Wars, Market Up on Iran News, Mamdani's First Tax, Swalwell Out

Steph Smith: “This opportunity is totally overlooked”

From SEO to Agent-Led Growth: Profound’s James Cadwallader

Axios Pro Rata: Unprecedented growth

Mythos, Muse, and the Opportunity Cost of Compute (Stratechery Article 4-13-2026)

Data Insight: Many countries are “leapfrogging” landlines and going straight to mobile phones

The OWID Brief: Falling battery prices, new country profiles on population, and more

💥University Ranking by Exit Values, How to Build a Personal Knowledge Hub, Auto-Discovery of What to Automate & More

Import AI 452: Scaling laws for cyberwar; rising tides of AI automation; and a puzzle over gDP forecasting

Anthropic’s $1B to $19B growth run: how Claude became the fastest-growing AI product in history | Amol Avasare

20VC: Hims & Hers: $4.3BN Market Cap on $2.3BN of Revenue: The Comeback | Why Being Public is 10x Better | The Death of the "Strategy" Hire | Why Performance Marketing is Worse than Brand Marketing with Andrew Dudum

Mega-IPOs From SpaceX, OpenAI & Anthropic Will Test Retail Investor Faith

VC exit boom left most behind

Weak science behind AI health hype

SaaStr 848: How AI Is Rewiring Sales: Quota, Retention & What's Actually Working with SaaStr, Salesforce and Mangomint

BREAKING: The Multi-Billion Dollar Digital Economy Powering Roblox

The 20 Best Subreddits for Startup Founders to Learn, Grow and Connect

Uncapped #46 | Brad Lightcap from OpenAI

Axios Pro Rata: Here we go

Coatue Projected $1.995 Trillion Valuation for Anthropic in 2030

BREAKING: Inside VCX — The Public Venture Capital Fund

“Claude Mythos”🧠, SaaS Funeral💀, From Execution to Judgment🎯

20VC: The Venture Model is Broken | You Need to be Greedy and Selfish to Win Early Stage Investing | Why Margins Do Not Matter for Early-Stage Startups | The Growth Rate that is Required in a World of AI with Gili Raanan, Founder @ Cyberstarts

Data Insight: The world gets more seafood from aquaculture than wild catch

Save This if You Want to Build a Startup in 2026

20VC: Why You Need a $1BN Fund To Do Series A Today | OpenAI vs Anthropic: Who Wins Enterprise | SpaceX at $2TRN and Data Centers in Space | The $20BN Groq Deal Broken Down | Jeff Bezos' $100BN New Fund

AI Is Hitting a New Inflection Point

Data Insight: Outside rich countries, widespread informal work means unemployment rates are low

Best of MFM: Listen To This Before You Invest Another Dollar

VC Returns Revealed: Bessemer India’s Slow-Build Strategy Put to the Test

💡Billion-Dollar Founder Patterns, Fund Return Analysis, Tech Hiring Surge & More

Data Insight: Coal power has effectively died in the United Kingdom

🔥 The Impact of Iran War on Private and Public Valuations - Here's the State of the Market in March 2026

20Sales: Inside Figma's $1BN ARR Revenue Machine | Why We Do Not Have Customer Success or SDRs | Why I Do Not Believe in Sales Quotas with Shaunt Voskanian, CRO @ Figma

Data Insight: Until fifty years ago, Argentina was richer than Spain

How Reddit Went From $12M to $2.2B + Cracked Social Media Monetization

This guy cured his dog’s cancer with ChatGPT + 4 other crazy AI stories

Data Insight: In the 1980s, youth literacy was higher in Sub-Saharan Africa than in South Asia; it’s now the opposite

The problem with mega IPOs

what'syour SaaS company Worth in 2026?

💡Where LPs Invest, How VCs Generate Alpha, Hyped Funding Rounds and Success, Concentration in Private Markets & More

Data Insight: Argentina was one of the richest countries in the world at the beginning of the 20th century

Deel Hits $1.4B+ in ARR | CEO Alex Bouaziz Shares Growth Playbook

BREAKING: Deel Hits $1.4B+ ARR | CEO Alex Bouaziz

Will AI lead to mass unemployment?

ChatGPT – The Super Assistant Era | BG2 Guest Interview

20Growth: Inside Lovable's $400M ARR Growth Machine | How Lovable Does Product Launches | How Lovable Hacks Social To Make Posts Go Viral | How Lovable Makes Every Employee a Brand with Elena Verna

Inside a16z’s Growth Bets on Waymo, ElevenLabs, Coinbase, Robinhood, Stripe, Revolut & Kalshi

The Hidden Pattern Behind Every Great Stock | Henry Ellenbogen Interview

125. Chatting with Freda, Partner at Altimeter: Betting on OpenAI, Robinhood's Past, American Capital's Bad Boys, Calculations and Bubbles

10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)

Will AI be bigger than the internet?

Paramount vs Netflix: Who Really Wins Warner Bros And What's Next?

fal team on Why Generative Video Will Transform Everything from Education to Entertainment

Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on the Polymarket Rivalry & the Future of Prediction Markets

Passive Income Expert: How To Make $10k Per Month In 90 Days!

Inside General Catalyst’s $1.5B AI Roll-Up Machine

Thrive & OpenAI Partnership, Databricks $5B Raise at $134B Valuation & Why SaaS is Like Japan

How a16z Growth Invests

NVIDIA’s Core Business Threatened by TPUs, Sam Altman’s ‘War Mode’ & Sierra’s $100M ARR

How We Use 20+ AI Agents for Marketing & Go-to-Market with SaaStr's CEO and Chief AI Officer

Inside General Atlantic: How a $100B Growth Equity Firm Invests

Coca-Cola: How a sugar water formula came to represent America, Happiness, and... Christmas

$1B founder explains how to come up with a great startup idea

Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi’s Grown-Up CEO Playbook

Founders Who Understand This AI Shift Will Own the Next Decade...

Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev on AI, Prediction Markets, and the Future of Trading

Every Business I Tried Before Making My First Million

How Alex Hormozi Gets Other People To Build His $100M+ Empire

“Dumbest idea I’ve heard” to $100M ARR: Inside the rise of Gamma | Grant Lee (co-founder)

Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle: Why Margins Matter Less in AI & OpenAI vs Anthropic: Who Wins Coding

The Playbook: Go from $0 to $400M (Brett Kelly, KPG:ASX)

Figma's Dylan Field on the Future of Design | Ep. 31

No Priors Ep. 139 | With Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy

The Playbook on Buying and Running Companies Forever

Sequoia’s Alfred Lin: Backing Founders Who Redefine Markets

The State of AI + Software: Where It’s Going - Fast

Inside Coatue: $70B Hedge Fund’s AI & Retail Strategy

Deel CEO, Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation

Nvidia's Jensen Huang on AI & the Next Frontier of Growth

Sequoia’s Roelof Botha on Decision Making, AI, and the Next Trillion Dollar Market | Ep. 28

Kelly Partners Group Holdings | FY2025 Full Year Results Presentation

Deep Dive: Inside Kelly Partners Group's High-Margin Accounting Acquisitions (KPG)

Kelly Partners Group Stock Explained w/ Brett Kelly