Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 625 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

Tech Strikes Back

“Accelerationism” is an overdue corrective to years of doom and gloom in Silicon Valley. 

A Brief History of SaaS and What's Next

Software ate the world and then ate itself. What comes next?

Growth At All Costs vs. Bootstrapping vs. ??

What's the best way to build + fund your startup? It depends.

You should be playing with GPTs at work

20 examples of how people are using custom GPTs to make their teams more productive.

Marketing, Sales and PR

Building a world-class sales org

Jason Lemkin is the founder of SaaStr, the largest B2B/SaaS community, and manages a $90 million venture capital firm, SaaStr Fund. With a diverse background, including co-founding EchoSign and roles at Adobe, he orchestrates major tech conferences, drawing thousands globally. In our discussion, we explore key topics in scaling sales teams, from hiring and compensating salespeople to improving collaboration between sales and product teams.

4 Steps to Becoming a Sales-Focused Founder (and Why It's Important)

A company might have a great product, but scaling the business calls for a well-oiled sales machine, as I learned with my first startup. 

How Arc Grows: Building The New Window Into The Internet

Lessons on avoiding the competition, building what people don't know they need, ignoring the numbers, and so much more.

Money and Finance

Venture Capital & Free Lunch

Why Venture Capital is the Best Asset Class.

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