Founder Weekly (Issue 637 May 22 2024)

Founder Weekly - Issue 637

May 22, 2024

Founder Weekly

Welcome to issue 637 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

General

Aaron Levie is the co-founder and the CEO of Box. This conversation covers opportunities in AI, the early days of Box, and lessons Aaron's learned on his founder journey.

In this post, we dive into the advantages of the venture studios and incubation model, its challenges, and if you should start a venture studio (preview: many shouldn’t). As with all Signature Block posts, you’ll hear from the operators of 16 venture studios and incubations directly. We also include a landscape of venture studios featuring 15 studios and venture funds that incubate companies, including their taglines, models, and traction.

If the centralizing forces of data and compute hold, open and closed-source AI cannot both dominate long-term.

Marketing, Sales and PR

What happens in a world of infinite labor, infinite content, and mass personalization.

After many failed side projects, 30-year-old Jozef Gherman launched StealthGPT a little over a year ago. And it's already bringing in $186k MRR. He didn't stop there, though. This year, he has launched another three products.

There is a simple formula to easily calculate the terminal ARR for your startup, writes guest contributor John S. Kim, co-founder and CEO of Sendbird, who shares just what you'll need to do that.

Lessons on launching a B2B product, pricing, B-17 bombers, The Chef Flywheel, mastering PLG, and lots more.

Money and Finance

No one ever got fired for investing in Tier 1 VC.

How metrics can deceive investors and operators into thinking the company is fine.

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