Startups

How to Think for Yourself

November 2020There are some kinds of work that you can't do well without thinking differently from your peers. To be a successful scientist, for example, it's not enough just to be...

Amazon's new AI can code for days without human help. What does that mean for software engineers?

Amazon Web Services on Tuesday announced a new class of artificial intelligence systems called "frontier agents" that can work autonomously for hours or even...

The Startup Junkies Podcast | 433: Reinventing Private Aviation Staffing with Tyler Flagg and Flying Company

SummaryIn this week’s episode of Startup Junkies, host Daniel Koonce sits down...

Changing the World via AI … with Five Kids in Tow

Ten years ago, Jessica Spencer was on a six-hour trip to Atlanta. Like many road trip warriors, she decided to pass the time with...

How to Conduct a Self Background Check: A Step-by-Step Guide

Conducting a self background check is an important step in comprehending your own history and ensuring all information about you is accurate. Start by...

Top 6 Best Bare Metal Hosting Services in 2025

Bare metal hosting is what you move to when “good enough” performance and control stops being good enough. If you’re running latency-sensitive apps, training AI...

The Airbnbs

December 2020To celebrate Airbnb's IPO and to help future founders, I thought it might be useful to explain what was special about Airbnb.What was special...

More context, more confidence: The new CX Score explained

Customer expectations have never been higher. People expect fast, accurate, and effortless support, every time. And across industries, from ecommerce to financial services to...

An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to...

Thanks to the AI boom devouring the majority of the world's memory and storage supply, end-consumers are now facing increasingly inflated prices for common...

Enshitification – Feld Thoughts

I’ve been a long-time Cory Doctorow fan. His new book Enshitification is delicious. Yup – I understand that a shit emoji doesn’t inspire deliciousness.Now...

AI agent evaluation replaces data labeling as the critical path to production deployment

As LLMs have continued to improve, there has been some discussion in the industry about the continued need for standalone data labeling tools, as...

The Startup Junkies Podcast | 2: The Transship Story: A Journey from Cold Storage to AI-Powered Shipping with Amit Hasak

SummaryIn this episode of the Fuel Podcast, Grace Gill sits down with...

Steve Blank The Department of War Just Shot the Accountants and Opted for Speed

Last week the Department of War finally killed the last vestiges of Robert McNamara’s 1962 Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS).  The DoW has pivoted...

What is a Podcast? How podcasts work and how to get started

New to the world of podcasting? You might be wondering, well, what is a podcast? And how do they work? In this article I’ll...

7 Essential Best Practices for Recruiting

In terms of recruitment, implementing best practices can greatly improve your hiring process. Start by crafting clear and inclusive job descriptions that attract a...

Which Ones Actually Ship a Decent Site?

AI website builders promise a lot: “Describe your business in a sentence and we’ll generate a beautiful, high-converting site in 30 seconds.” Sometimes you actually...

Billionaires Build

December 2020As I was deciding what to write about next, I was surprised to find that two separate essays I'd been planning to write were...