Ash

We keep hearing: Juniors won t stand a chance.

But companies are still opening internships, which suggests something deeper than just skill-building still matters (like understanding systems, workflows, and how companies actually operate the management part).

At YC, investors outlined 8 startups across space, AI, gaming, and agriculture (most of them want to bet on futuristic ideas, e.g. space), and these sparked interest in funding them.

This was the pick:

1. Beyond Reach Labs satellite solar arrays that expand from table-size to football-field size in orbit
   Est. valuation: ~$100M+

2. Byteport next-gen file transfer protocol
   Est. valuation: ~ $30M

3. Hex Security AI agents that continuously hack your system to find vulnerabilities (Rev.: $1M+ run-rate in 8 weeks)
   Est. valuation: ~$100M+

4. Grazemate autonomous drones that herd cattle, track weight, and monitor land
   Est. valuation: ~ $30M

5. GRU Space moon factory turning lunar soil into buildings (starting with a moon hotel)
   Est. valuation: ~$100M+

6. Luel marketplace for real-world human data (video/audio) to train AI models (Rev.: ~$2M ARR in 6 weeks)
   Est. valuation: ~$100M+

7. Pax Historia AI strategy game where players rewrite history (e.g. Rome never falls) 35K daily users
   Est. valuation: ~ $30M

8. Stilta AI agent for patent lawyers (search + analyse IP faster, cheaper)
   Est. valuation: ~ $30M

When I started my first job after school at a small local agency, a project manager once said something like: If someone has three companies on their CV and stayed less than a year in each, it doesn t look good.

I took that to heart. I tried to stay longer in every role, so I wouldn t seem unreliable, even in underpaid jobs I didn t enjoy. I endured it just to make my CV look stable. In hindsight, it was a little bit stupid. (Sometimes a waste of time.)