Product & Design

155. 和科沃斯钱程聊，父与子、企二代接班的样本与肌理、机器人，和我内心的追寻

How to Raise Capital: Why Metrics Still Matter

🏀 Agent arena

How Toto Wolff built the most valuable team in F1

Christina Cacioppo - Building an Enduring Software Company in the Age of AI - [Invest Like the Best, EP.496]

Brian Chesky Says Every Company Has the Same AI Tools. Airbnb Ships 80% More Features Anyway. Here Is How.

What Happens When Everyone Has a Health Expert in Their Pocket? | OpenAI’s Karan Singhal

Causal Analysis of Robot Foundation Models Enables Efficiency Gains

Dylan Field: Is AI Replacing Designers?, Design is the New Code & Democratizing Creativity

Apollo’s Yahoo Playbook, 5 Years After the $5B Deal

Do You Trust Apple? (Stratechery Article 10-19-2026)

What Happens When Al Agents Can Spend Your Money?

Topdog Success Story. 10 OOTB questions to co-founder Aman Agarwal

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

Why Real-World AI Is Harder Than the Benchmark | EliseAI’s Mario Martone

20VC: Horizontal vs Vertical Agents: Who Wins | Model Routing: Commodity or Increasing in Value | The Future of the Inference Market | Why Founders Should Take Discounts for Tier 1 Firms with Harrison Chase, LangChain

Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on Building the Internet for Agents

Home At Last (This Week in Stratechery)

Higgsfield Hit $1B in Annualized Revenue in 18 Months. Cursor Needed 24. Here Are Alex Mashrabov’s 10 Calls

MITO's $4.5M Pre-Seed Deck: How Lightspeed Backed the AI Studio Behind 50 Cent, Zara and Movistar

20VC: The Pro-Rata Battle: Valar Atomics Sues Day One Ventures | Meta Returns to the AI Frontier With Muse Wonder | NVIDIA Eyes $30B Reflection Deal & Jev Raises $870M at a $7.5B Valuation

✍️Inside Our DDVC London Hackathon: AI for Finding, Assessing & Managing Deals

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

Lightsprint’s $6.1M Seed Deck: The 8 Slides That Won Over YC and 645 Ventures

When AI Agents Start Spending Your Money | Alex Rampell & Terry Angelos

154. 对Dyna创始人Lindon的3小时访谈：机器人世界的迷雾、分歧与抉择，修心、《沉思录》与王阳明

🛡️ Safety spending

💥Why You Need a New CFO, Small Funds Disappear, Optimal Portfolio Size, Future Path for AI Labs & More

BREAKING: Inside Thrive Capital

What’s Your AI Agent’s ROI?

Rippling's Outbound GTM Strategy Is Worth $17B

David Vélez - Building Nubank and the Future of Global Banking - [Invest Like the Best, EP.495]

Your GTM Agents Work in Seconds. Your Playbook Still Changes Once a Quarter

LADDER: A Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation Benchmark

RoboIRS: Inference-Time Internal Representation Steering for Generalist Robot Policies

20VC: Atlassian CEO on Why Agents Won't Replace Interfaces | Why Enterprises Won't Trust Chinese Models | Why The Jury Is Still Out On The Benefits of Specialised Models with Mike Cannon-Brookes

Muse Wonder: Zuckerberg and Wang's $100B AI

3 embarrassing moments that changed my life

Perplexity CEO: SMBs Could Drive the Next Economic Boom

BREAKING: Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity

Why every company now needs to think and operate like a lab team | Josh Woodward (Google Labs, Gemini, AI Studio)

SkipVLA: Skipping VLA Steps with Classical Planning for Fast Robot Manipulation

It’s Not You, It’s Me (This Week in Stratechery)

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

Splat2Act: From Captured Scenes to Personalized VLA Manipulation

⏳ Longevity meets AI

59: Joe Gebbia - Design We Deserve

BREAKING: USV Raises $900M in New Funds

Can AI Agents Actually Use a Computer? Here's the Real Answer

Building the Cloud for an Agentic World | AWS CEO Matt Garman

VersaCamVLA: Camera-Configurable VLA Policies for Robotic Manipulation

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

Building Defense for the Agentic Era: Kevin Mandia

3 businesses we think are about to blow up

John Collison, Stripe: AI Agents Will Rewire the Internet

Apple and a Hacker’s Future (Stratechery Article 10-5-2026)

A Masterclass in Prompting GPT-6 Astra

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

OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo Sottiaux

Tiny Health Success Story. 9 OOTB questions to founder Cheryl Sew Hoy

The Harness Is the Product: 6 Decisions That Turn an AI Agent Into a Worker You Can Leave Alone

BREAKING: Frontier AI Is a Ferrari. Most Companies Need a Model Y

Dots and Question Marks (This Week in Stratechery)

Why AI Agents Can Beat the Incumbents

183: 与Henry的「AI季报26Q3」：Muse引爆个人助理、Astra进入机器人、OpenAI收入猛增

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

Chart of the Day

58: Adam Mastroianni - Let Me Be Useful

What AI Agents See When They Look at Your Pricing

GT-VLA: Target-Conditioned Trace Guidance for Generalizable Robotic Manipulation

🤖 Are dots safe?

We tested Instinct, MUSE and Grokbot. They’re ridiculous.

Early Optimism Reigns on Agentic Commerce + Personal Agents at the Machine Earning AI Summit

Luca Ferrari Runs Evernote With 20 People. Here Are His 10 Rules for Doing More With Less

ECoMEM: Explicit Concept Memory for Memory-Dependent Robot Control

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

Daniel Ek: Life After Spotify, Broken Healthcare Incentives, Catching Disease Early & AI's Potential

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

Apps, Agents, and Aggregation (Stratechery Article 9-28-2026)

AI Can Write Code. Why Isn’t Software Better?

Where Memory Belongs: Ledger, an Object Ledger for Memory-Augmented VLAs

🔥Building Products That Investors Actually Use

The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly Graham

Your AI Agent Might Be Paying $11,000 a Month to Answer Yes or No

Building a Team at AI Speed | Harvey’s Maggie Landers

20VC: Five Predictions for a World of Agents | The Ads Business Model Will Die | Biggest Lessons from Working with Elon Musk at Twitter with Parag Agrawal, Parallel

Shorter Prompts Are Making Your AI Agents More Expensive

We Built a Free Tool That Reads Your Deck the Way an Investor’s Triage Does

Chart of the Day

There’s 98 days until 2027...Do this and you’ll thank yourself on Jan 1st

Agents Promise to Remake the Web. As Instinct & Muse Take Off, We’ll Begin to See How it Looks.

ICYMI: Neko Health Opens in NYC

Begun, the Aggregator Wars Have (This Week in Stratechery)

The Reputation Graph of Silicon Valley | Introducing Cosign

🎯 MAGA takes on Dario

57: Immad Akhund - The Art of Irrational Effort

3 Founders Shipped Claude Managed Agents to Production in 2 Weeks. Here's the Playbook

Training-free Behavior Cloning

Luca Ferrari, Bending Spoons CEO: The $40K Origin Story, Buying Product-Market Fit & Why Private Equity Can't Compete

ICYMI: Brad Gerstner & Rob Goldberg on the #1 Test for Heart Disease Prevention (You Probably Haven’t Taken)

How to Get 1,000 AI Agents Working While You’re Offline

NVIDIA Cut AI Agent Costs in Half Without Touching the Model. Your Margins Live in the Harness

Amjad Masad on Rethinking College for the AI Era

182: 对话梁琛奇：抖音、猫箱、创业，「他们都搞生产力，我想用 AI 创造开心」

Gabe Stengel - Building Investing Superintelligence - [Invest Like the Best, EP.492]

Muse Just Beat ChatGPT's Launch 3-to-1. Here's the Operating Manual Nobody Wrote

Why a16z is Building a New School for the AI Era | Ben Horowitz

20VC: Why AI Cannot Replace Humans in Enterprise | Why Work Processes Not Models Will Be The Most Valuable Asset in AI | Why Europe Has Lost and Building in the US vs EU with Daniel Dines, UiPath

🤖 Trump's new AI czar

Whatnot founder: This is the future of e-commerce

Frontier Overhangs (Stratechery Article 9-21-2026)

AI Safety Language Is Destroying the Debate | Steven Sinofsky

Learning Beyond What Humans Can Demonstrate

Think Like a World Model, Act Like a VLA: Distilling World-Model Representations into Compact Robot Policies

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

ICYMI: How Bending Spoons Works

TypeSafe Shipped a Model That Never Writes a Word. Here’s the Decision-Layer Playbook

What Makes a Consumer AI Product Stick? | Josh Elman

This Was Supposed to Be a Newsletter

Why Diffusion Will Win AI Inference with Inception Co-Founder and CEO Stefano Ermon

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

Your Obsidian Vault Finally Has a Model That Can Read All of It

Saplings: The World Outside

Databricks’ Ali Ghodsi Never Wanted to Be CEO. Now He’s Among the Best

Brad Gerstner: The $100 Test That Could Save 50,000 Lives a Year

3 SpaceXAI Engineers Started a Company With No Idea. Nine Hours Later It Existed. Here’s the Manual.

The Next Frontier of AI Video Is Control

i got internet famous... if i started again from scratch, here's what I'd do this time

The AI-Native CRM

DynoFluxBench: Benchmarking Kinodynamic Space-Time Planners in Dynamic Environments

How to Raise Venture Capital: The Speed Run

Devin Got a Mac. Here’s the Handoff System for Shipping iOS Apps While You Sleep

The Age of Body Futurism | Ruby Justice Thelot

Box's Aaron Levie: On Reinventing Yourself in the AI Age and Enterprise Diffusion

Inside Bending Spoons: Buying Airtable, AOL, Vimeo & Now Miro

BREAKING: Inside Bending Spoons ($BSP)

Zuckerberg Just Killed the Prompt. Muse Takes Goals Instead.

Evidence-Gated Task and Motion Planning with Vision-Language Models

The Embodiment Gap in Robot Foundation Models

8 Ways To Improve Your Outbound Sales

Teach and Grow: An Agent-Centered Architecture for General Robot Learning

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

Duo Threats (This Week in Stratechery)

What It Takes to Build a Startup | Andrew Chen & Matt Perault

📵 No baggage

Coinbase’s Everything Exchange: Agentic Finance, Stablecoins, and Tokenization with CEO Brian Armstrong

🤖 Zuck's private agent

Max Junestrand (Legora) Says You Don't Need Domain Expertise. In 18 Months He Proved It at $100M ARR.

Social Media Has Changed Forever. Time to Prepare.

Who Grades the AI Models? | Ben Horowitz & Rayan Krishnan

How to Raise Venture Capital: Introduction

How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)

OpenAI Researchers on the Future of Mathematical Reasoning

20VC: The $100 Billion AI Assistant Race: Town vs Instinct vs GrokBot | We Spend $75K Per Engineer on AI Tools | Why the AI Assistant Market Is Not a Bubble & AI Assistants Will Replace Every App on Your Phone with JD, Founder of Town

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

The Man Who Taught 8 Million People AI Just Said AI Is Terrible for Learning

Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)

Your AI Doctor Is Coming | Julie Yoo

Instinct Is the First AI Assistant You Employ Instead of Operate. Here Is the Playbook.

How to naturally monetize what you love

Friction and Feedback (This Week in Stratechery)

BREAKING: Perplexity Just Split the AI Agent in 2. The Cloud Reasons, Your Mac Keeps the Secrets.

Fei Fei Li: The Race to Build World Models For AI

Sam Altman Ships AI to 900 Million People a Week. He Still Reads His Inbox Like It's 2006.

The $100B Niches Hiding Inside Payments

7 things MrBeast, Bezos & Thiel do that you don’t

Forget Loop Engineering. It’s all about Graph Engineering Now

24,541 Pitch Decks Tracked: Here’s Where Investors Stop Reading

Inside Moderna’s Personalized Cancer Vaccine

Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face

Making Cities Awesome: Peregrine’s Nick Noone & Ben Rudolph

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

🔥Who Should Own the Tech Stack: Investors vs Engineers

AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)

How to crack YC investing🎯, AI Intelligence Is Becoming the Primitive Layer💡, European VC Valuations Climb📈

20VC: Is Anthropic's Coding Business Worth $2 Trillion? | Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Why 80–90% of Neo-Labs Die in the Next 18 Months? with Eno Reyes, Co-Founder @ Factory

Susan Kare: Designing Icons & Graphics For the Original Mac

Inside Rocket Lab: How Sir Peter Beck Is Building Neutron’s Engines | Tour 02

BREAKING: Rocket Lab’s Engine Development Center

Amid Personal Assistant Investor Frenzy, Town Nears $1 Billion Valuation in Round Led by Instinct-Backer Index Ven…

Peter Steinberger Almost Deleted OpenClaw. Then 4.7 Million People Downloaded It.

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

Inside Cursor: The Anatomy of a Generational Startup

FlashVLA: Streaming Action Decoding for Fast and Asynchronous VLA Inference

#501 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux

How a $5B founder is using AI (3 tutorials)

A16z’s Martin Casado: Bullish on AI Apps, Bearish on Lone Ranger VCs

The One-Person Business, Built on Claude

The State of AI: Macro, Apps, and Consumer

🔄 Routing roulette

Independent Study: Art is For Seeing Evil by Agnes Callard (Essay)

Search Was Built for Humans. Parallel's Parag Agrawal Is Rebuilding It for Agents

20VC: Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee: Lessons from Don Valentine, Doug Leone and Alfred Lin | How the SpaceX and Citadel Deals Went Down | What Sequoia Specifically Looks for in Founders with Julien Bek

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

Why Medical AI Needs a Referee | Protege's Engy Ziedan

NebulaVLA: A Dual-Frequency Vision-Language-Action Model With Guide Action for Robotic Manipulation

How to close $100K+ enterprise deals, step by step | Jen Abel

The Memo - Special edition - Life at home with an AI agent - 22/Aug/2026

Our 2Q letter to LPs

3 millionaires reveal their super niche businesses

From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak

How to 8x Your Code Output Using Context Engineering

EXIMO: VLM Guided Exploration of VLA Policies

Is AINS the Next SaaS?

Why Most Self-Improving AI Loops Fail and How to Build One That Works

Flock CEO Garrett Langley on Controversy, "Surveillance State" Claims, and Privacy vs Safety

Chart of the Day

55: Dan Lilienthal & José Chayet - As [untitled] as it Comes

Your Top 20 Investor Matches, Free, in 30 Seconds

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

🤐 Prompts and privacy

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

Stripe’s AI Strategy: Build More, Not Less

OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber

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

40 Years, 3 Genres, Zero Musical Ability: The Rick Rubin Method

🔥How to Build an AI Harness for Your Investment Firm, One Workflow at a Time

How AppLovin Built a $100B Ad Machine

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

The Claude Prompts That Close Rounds in 2026

20VC: Canva Slashes Growth: How Much is it Really Worth | Demis Hassabis and Jeff Dean: Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50BN CEO Pay Package | Elon Musk's $55BN Terrafab

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

Google Senior AI Leader’s Loop Engineering Masterclass: How to Build AI Systems That Improve Their Own Work

The Two Ways to Sell AI: Lighthouse or Landgrab?

Deliberate Practice: Learning Robot Skills under a Budget

#500 – Khabib Nurmagomedov: Dagestan, MMA, UFC, Islam, Conor, Fedor & Football

Inside Neros’ Factory Built to Make 1 Million Drones a Year

While Everyone is Waiting for the Next Model, Your Agent Can Learn Tonight

💥Personal AI Operating Stack, What Got Hyped vs What Got Built, How VCs Decide & More

Eric Vishria - A Decade of Lessons Investing in Software & Hardware - [Invest Like the Best, EP.486]

Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity"

Decagon Hit $100 Million Betting Against Forward Deployed Engineers

RoboBRIDGE: A Modular Framework for Bridging Policies to Robust Real-World Robotic Agents

XCoT-VLA: Executable Chain-of-Thought for Vision-Language-Action Driving

Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire

54: Ian Rogers: Never a Spectator

Max Hodak: How Startups Build Speed

How Kavak Rebuilt Itself Around AI Agents | Alejandro Maza Ayala

🔥Do Investors Still Need a Lawyer?

How To Design In The Agent Era

Anthropic Deleted 80% of Claude Code's Prompt. It Got Smarter

20VC: Airtable Sold for $1.285BN | Leo Achenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B | Anthropic Model Breaches Three Companies' Security | Big Tech Earnings: Why Palantir Beat The Rest

Garry Tan: Own Your Intelligence

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

How to Eliminate Churn for Good Before It Eats Your Growth

PE Firms Pay McKinsey $500K for This. Run It on Yourself in 10 Days

📚 College AI use

Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: "Move Fast And Ship Safely"

We found the internet's best sales advice

GTM in 2026: What's Actually Changed

Patrick Collison: "What If You Succeed?"

Inside OpenAI: The Operating Model That Makes 2 Engineers Beat 200

This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)

BREAKING: Voice AI is Dominating

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

Ruby Thelot on Internet Culture, AI, and the Future of Taste

20VC: The Best AI Companies Have Unique Data Acquisition Strategies | Will Simile Kill Kalshi, Polymarkets and NASDAQ | How to Sign Fortune 500 Companies As Customers in Weeks with Joon Sung Park, Simile

Charts of the Day

The surprising product that built Italy's richest family

AssemblyAI CEO Dylan Fox on 120 Million Voice Conversations a Week

Someone just ran a 2.78-trillion-parameter model on a laptop. The memory wall is breaking

Decagon’s Playbook for Building Enterprise AI Applications

☁️ Azure's $100B

The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Spend

AI for America's Small Businesses | Lassie

175: 对话Liblib陈冕：关于活下来，以及所有接近死亡的时刻

Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban

AI Micro Dramas, Generative Media, and the Future of Creativity

Boris Cherny: Building Claude Code

BREAKING: “Devin Writes 95% of Our Code” Scott Wu, CEO of Cognition

Everything You Need to Know to Master Claude's Fable 5

These Are The Mistakes That Cost Founders Their First Deal

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

Inside the Fastest-Growing Category in AI: Scott Wu, CEO of $26B Cognition

Anthropic’s first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future | Dianne Penn

I'm rooting for open source

Anthropic just cut the price of frontier intelligence in half

The Philosopher CEO | Clay Co-Founder Kareem Amin

The 10 Claude Skills Every Founder & Builder Should Steal

Closing the Lab-to-Store Gap: A Data-Efficient Post-Training and Experience-Driven Learning VLA Framework for Retail Humanoids

LENS: LLM-guided Environment Simplification for Planning and Control in Clutter

52: Jack Conte - Draw the Next Page

Most AI Startups Are Pricing Themselves to Death

How to Give Top-Tier Demos Like a Pro

Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | Applied Intuition

Factory's Matan Grinberg: The Coming ‘Dark Factory’ Where Software Builds Itself

DiMaS: Distribution Matching for Steering Vision-Language-Action Models

Perplexity's Founder Found AGI Risk in a 2,000-Year-Old Epic

Netflix CPTO on AI and the future of product and tech roles | Elizabeth Stone

AMD, Starcloud, Coatue..10 Hot Takes From The Biggest Names in AI

Anthropic Raised $580M With No Product. Here Is the Deck

Ray Dalio: The principles that made me a billionaire

Mainframes and Main Characters (This Week in Stratechery)

Amjad Masad on Going Direct, Building Replit, and the Future of Software

👀 Mira's new model

How to Build Three AI Agents Without Writing Code

The Board Meeting Operating System

Reflex: Real-Time VLA Control through Streaming Inference

📝 AI-pocalypse jobs board

Jonathan Ross Turned a 3-Week Phone Call Into a $20 Billion NVIDIA Deal. Here Is How He Did It.

Anthropic's Katelyn Lesse & Angela Jiang: Building an Ecosystem, not a Walled Garden

Uncapped #54 | Sam Blond from Monaco

20VC: Wix's Founder on What Wall St Gets Wrong About AI and Wix | Will Base44 Win the Vibe Coding Wars | The Truth About the Economics of Vibe-Coding | The Buyback Disaster: Lessons Learned with Avishai Abrahami

🐻 Goldilocks GPT

🔥How to Gain an Edge When Everyone Uses the Same AI Model

How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)

ICYMI: Figma, OpenAI, Boston Dynamics, MIT

Brainstorming business ideas with a billion-dollar founder

Google’s agent broke a 56-year math record. Yours forgets yesterday

🚨The Data Driven VC Landscape 2026 Is Here🚨

Adam Mosseri: AI is a tailwind for authenticity

How To Better Understand Your Users

You are overpaying for intelligence. Grok 4.5 just proved it

Claude Fable 5 is free for 4 more days. Here is the full guide

Adam Neumann: This Is How You Build Iconic Companies

5 ruthless business lessons from one week in NYC

Stop prompting. Start writing loops

Is Software Losing Its Head?

Zuckerberg's $14B Bet: Glasses Kill the Phone in 5 Years

Don’t Follow Your Passion | Ben Horowitz’s Advice for New Graduates

Set a metric. Walk away. Let the agent optimize overnight.

I dropped out of college and built a $3.6B company from scratch

Software wins for the taking

Dylan Field on the “Permanent Underclass of Zero Taste”

BREAKING: Dylan Field, CEO of Figma

Brian Armstrong Runs 1,200 AI Agents at Coinbase. Here Is the Operating Model He Just Handed Every Founder.

This Is the New SaaS Playbook

💥Agents vs Headcount, VC Content Blueprint, AI GTM Teams, Talent vs. Talent Engineering & More

Rick Rubin on AI, Creativity, and The Way of Code

FurnitureVLA: Learning Long-Horizon Bimanual Furniture Assembly with Vision-Language-Action Model

Chart of the Day

The $30M app that lets you invest like a politician

Building AI for Creators | Luma & Phota Labs

Building in Public Is Not What It Used To Be

OpenAI Codex lead on the new shape of product work | Andrew Ambrosino

COVAL Success Story. 10 OOTB questions to founder Brooke Hopkins

The State of the AI Economy 📈, Ship Your First AI Agent in a Day🛠️, How to Steal a Customer Base🍴

20VC: How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong | Why 1-1s are BS and What Every Founder Gets Wrong About Equity | Why Taste Beats AI But How AI Kills Org Charts with Paul Erlanger, CEO @ fomo

Accretion, Dilution, and the Cold Hard Truth of M&A Math

Betting on vision

The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job

BREAKING: Brian Armstrong, Coinbase

Your AI App Has a Hole in It Right Now

💡 Army of agents

Pivot or Die. The Market Is Trying to Tell You Something

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

The free AI content engine that beats a content team

The One Thing AI Startups Keep Underestimating

What Happens to Design After AI?

Mark Pincus: How to Build Billion-Dollar Products

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

The AI Upgrade Trap: Why Switching to a Better Model Breaks Everything You Built

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

20VC: Nikesh Arora on the Frontier Model Problem: Breadth vs Depth | The Future of Token Costs | Memory Becoming the Moat | Where Value Accrues: Infra, Models, or Apps? | Why Enterprise AI is Not Ready & Systems of Record vs Systems of Intelligence

The Walt Disney Company

PhysVLA: Towards Physically-Grounded VLA for Embodied Robotic Manipulation

Building the most AI-pilled engineering team in the world | Fiona Fung (Manager of the Claude Code and Cowork Teams)

Your GTM, run by agents

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

Post agent companies

Why Domain Experts Are Winning In The Age Of AI

No, You Don’t Need an AI Agent

The New Rules of Media | Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz

We decoded the business behind this influencer’s perfect life

This is How You Get Your Homepage Viral

Pose6DAug: Physically Plausible Multi-view Object Swapping for Robot Data Augmentation

How To Pick A Startup Idea

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

The Fintech Playbook for Latin America

💥 Who Gets Paid First, State of DPI, Meeting Notes As True Moat, LLM-Assisted Deal Screening & More

Kareem Amin - Re-Enchanting the World - [Invest Like the Best, EP.478]

Inside Harvey AI: $11B, $300M ARR, 960 Employees, 12 Offices, 13 Trillion Tokens a Month

BREAKING: $11B Harvey Hits $300M ARR & 13 Trillion Tokens

Inference engineering is the 80% cost cut most teams miss

Don’t Believe Those Who Say that SaaS is Dying

Jack Altman on Product-Market Fit

Simulating Humans at Scale: Simile's Joon Sung Park

Ideogram’s Open-Weights Image Model and the Future of AI Design

AI, Design, and the Power of Open Models

What Matters in Orchestrating Robot Policies: A Systematic Study of Hierarchical VLA Agents

🔥Building a Single Source of Truth for Investment Firms

The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (Founder of Zynga)

Your AI bill is mostly wasted tokens

BREAKING: "If SpaceX Didn't Work, Founders Fund Wouldn't Exist"

Introducing Generalist Intelligence

48: Henri Stern - Principled Enough to Be Pragmatic

The one-person company stopped being a meme. This is the operating system that runs it

Designing the Physical World with AI

Google DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick: Why the Model Eats the Harness

"The CEO Must Be the Chief AI Officer"

The iPhone’s Last Stand (Stratechery Article 6-9-2026)

Satya Nadella said every agent needs its own computer. Most builders are still handing theirs a chat box.

144. 对阳萌的4小时访谈：消费电子死与生、第三类公司、AI变量、产品方法、打游戏的模式选择

Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

Startups Are Skipping the Old Playbook🎯, How VC Became a Fee Business💰, Software Factory Ladder Explained 🏭

OASIS: From Simulation Data Collection to Real-World Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

20Product: Inside Legora's Tech Stack: Why Token Maxing is Failing Enterprise Startups with Jacob Lauritzen, CTO @ Legora

🛠️Why Every Firm Should Create a Skill Library

AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

🌈 GLAAD's AI warning

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

The Rise of the Full-Stack Builder and Hyper-Leveraged Generalist with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

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