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🍌 Cradlewise, The AI-Powered Crib Giving Parents More Sleep
The Split's unofficial holiday gift guide, including a new product from Snoop Dogg, grim data on venture funding, and the best memes from the OpenAI…
🎧🍌 How Solugen is Saving the $5 Trillion Chemicals Industry
Replacing chemicals with plants, how the chemicals industry touches 25% of US GDP, launching and selling a 7-figure CPG brand, and advice for building a…
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🎧🍌 Fortifying Open Source Software with Dan Lorenc, Co-founder & CEO of Chainguard
Raising $61M to secure the software supply chain, the history of open source software, all things meme marketing, how to get quoted in major…
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October 2023
🍌 Could These YouTubers Build the Next Disney World?
Dude Perfect's $100 million theme park, plus a quick update on the newsletter
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September 2023
🎧🍌 The $4 Trillion Business of Financial Crime with Natasha Vernier, Co-founder and CEO of Cable
How financial crime makes up 4% of global GDP, why we only catch 0.2% of it, why banks aren't incentivized to stop it, joining Monzo as the 17th…
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🎧🍌 Growing Deel to $300M+ ARR in Four Years with Alex Bouaziz, Co-founder and CEO of Deel
Pivoting one week before YC demo day, growing 20% per month for a year, how to move fast, the benefits of taking on lots of angel investors, how to pick…
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🍌 Could TikTok Kill Amazon?
Exploring how TikTok's gained ecommerce market share in China and South East Asia, plus how humans almost went extinct 1 million years ago, and too many…
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🎧🍌 How Semil Shah Built Haystack
Living paycheck to paycheck, investing in Instacart, DoorDash, and Hashicorp's Seed rounds, the struggles of raising his first four funds, how LPs…
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Why Does Instacart's IPO Filing Mention Food Stamps 25 Times?
Plus new products from Mercury and BeReal, why small angel checks are the backbone of Silicon Valley, and why smart people walk fast.
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🎧🍌 The Einstein of Ecommerce 🧪 Bootstrapping to 9-Figures in Revenue with Sean Frank (CEO, Ridge Wallet)
Lessons from sponsoring 5,000 influencers, a crash course on the fashion market, why wallets are a terrible category, how to build an enduring brand…
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August 2023
🎧🍌 How to Move Quadrillions of Dollars - The Story of Modern Treasury with Dimitri Dadiomov (Co-founder and CEO, Modern Treasury)
How to pick co-founders, why early customers deserve more credit, Dimitri's experience in YC, using PLG to build a deeper product, going slow to go…
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🎧🍌 Growing Medal to Tens of Millions of Users | Pim de Witte (Co-founder and CEO, Medal)
$1.5 million in revenue at 13 years old, why consumer platforms need social inflection points, Medal’s unique approach to in-person / remote work, and…
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