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The pivot that paid off: How fal found explosive growth in generative media
Gorkem Yurtseven, fal
First Round Review
How we restructured Airtable's entire org for AI
Howie Liu, Airtable
YouTube
Des Traynor (Intercom): How we rebuilt the company for the AI era
Des Traynor, Intercom
pigment.com
Databricks' Ali Ghodsi Never Wanted to Be CEO. Now He's Among the Best
Ali Ghodsi, Databricks
Sequoia
Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1 million developers in four months: The untold story of Windsurf
Varun Mohan, Windsurf
Lenny's Newsletter
"Dumbest idea I've heard" to $100M ARR: Inside the rise of Gamma
Grant Lee, Gamma
YouTube
Building the Open Source AI Revolution (with Hugging Face CEO, Clem Delangue)
Clem Delangue, Hugging Face
Acquired
How Suno Grew to $300M in ARR by Democratizing Music Creation
Mikey Shulman, Suno
Podcast
How One Hackathon Took Zapier's AI Usage From 10% to 97%
Wade Foster, Zapier
Podcast
He turned off a product with 20M users and went from 70 people to 7—then raised a $47M Series A.
Keith Peiris, Lightfield
Podcast
He got rejected from YC, then grew to $1.8B in under 2 years.
Max Junestrand, Legora
Podcast
He built a new database in his bedroom—now he powers Cursor, Notion and Anthropic.
Simon Eskildsen, turbopuffer
Podcast
ChatGPT Should Have Killed His AI SaaS. Instead, He's Nearing $10M
Alon Talmor, Mosaic AI
The SaaS Podcast
#278 – Growing a Portfolio of AI Products Past $300k After a 7-Figure Exit with Danny Postma
Danny Postma, HeadshotPro
dev.to
AI and the Future of Work
Tope Awotona, Calendly
wsj.com
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