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- Todaysolo9 min5-min read
How To Go From Researcher to Founder
Academics transitioning into startup founders must fundamentally 'unlearn' core instincts—such as optimizing for novelty, theoretical rigor, and vanity metrics—to adopt the aggressive, user-centric, and iterative mindset required for building successful, market-driven companies. The speaker, a former researcher in Fei-Fei Li's lab turned startup CEO, breaks down the ten most important perspective shifts academics need to make, arguing that you must 'literally kill part of your academic identity' to become a formidable founder.
- 5 days agoconversational48 min9-min read
What Happens When Everyone Can Build Software
The Light Cone hosts interview Paul Copplestone, co-founder and CEO of Supabase, about how the open source Postgres backend became the default database for AI coding agents. Supabase has grown from ~3 million to 13 million signups in a year, revenue is growing 4x, and over a million databases are now spun up weekly — with roughly 70% of new activity coming from agents. The conversation spans Supabase's three eras (dashboard, API, code-first), the rise of non-engineer 'builders', personal databases for one's own life data, scaling Postgres to billions of databases, and advice for founders riding AI waves.
- 1 weeks agoconversational1h 5m11-min read
The New Full-Stack Designer
Marvin Schwaibold, who leads the product design studio at Shopify, joins Design Review to walk through his AI-driven design workflow, the philosophy behind his former Brooklyn studio Mollie, and how Shopify is redesigning its admin and Sidekick experiences. The episode closes with a website review segment covering Nstack, SkillSync, InstaPlay, Mintlify, Nullify, and Instinct.
- 1 weeks agoconversational47 min5-min read
This Is How You Should Actually Make Launch Videos
Farza Majeed, founder of HeyClicky and former YC founder behind Buildspace, shares his counterintuitive, high-impact approach to launching products in 2026—not through polished, one-off launch videos, but through constant, authentic demos that double as storytelling. He argues that the era of relying on press and big launches is over, replaced by algorithmic platforms where founders who ship daily demos build audiences, trust, and real traction.
- 1 weeks agointerview47 min6-min read
How To Stand Out In A World Of AI Designs
Magic Patterns, founded by non-designer front-end engineers Alex Danilowicz and Aaron Epstein, is an AI-powered design tool that enables users to go from idea to interactive, code-backed prototype in minutes. The platform emphasizes user-centric workflows, model-agnostic flexibility, and deep integration with existing developer tools like Cursor and Claude Code, allowing teams to rapidly prototype, iterate, and export to Figma or code.
- Sep 26, 2026conversational29 min5-min read
Robot-Use Agents: Why General-Purpose Models May Win in Robotics
The podcast explores how large language models (LLMs) are being leveraged to control robots, marking a shift toward general-purpose 'robot use agents.' Founders of Waddle Labs and RoboCurve discuss how advancements in code-as-policies, in-context learning, and pre-training on diverse data (like computer use and CAD) are enabling LLMs to generalize across physical tasks with minimal robotics-specific data.
- Sep 18, 2026narrative36 min6-min read
The State of Startups in 2026
We're in a pivotal moment where AI is accelerating both software and hard tech innovation, enabling solo and experienced founders to build faster and more effectively than ever before. The state of the art isn't just smarter models—it's how they're reshaping company formation, revenue growth, and entire industries like robotics, defense, and semiconductor infrastructure.
- Sep 13, 2026solo12 min5-min read
8 Ways To Improve Your Outbound Sales
Founder-led sales are critical in early-stage startups, and improving outbound success hinges not on automation or perfect copy, but on meticulous manual outreach, precise targeting, and leveraging founder credibility. By focusing on the right prospects, crafting concise, problem-centric messages, and iterating based on real customer feedback, founders can dramatically increase reply rates and close early deals.
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