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

2026 vibes = your personal brand matters more than your product.

Imagine this: 2 founders build the same product, with the same features and same pricing. Founder A has been posting on LinkedIn for 6 months. Founder B launches from zero.

2026 vibes = your personal brand matters more than your product.

Imagine this: 2 founders build the same product, with the same features and same pricing. Founder A has been posting on LinkedIn for 6 months. Founder B launches from zero.

If you re launching today, the leaderboard is about to get a lot more interesting.

We are running a Randomized Day to give products launching more of an opportunity to get seen!

The Mechanics

To level the playing field, we are cycling the homepage layout throughout the day:
The Loop: This cycle repeats every 30 minutes, all day long.

If you re launching today, the leaderboard is about to get a lot more interesting.

We are running a Randomized Day to give products launching more of an opportunity to get seen!

The Mechanics

To level the playing field, we are cycling the homepage layout throughout the day:
The Loop: This cycle repeats every 30 minutes, all day long.

The news dropped yesterday: OpenAI is shutting down Sora, their AI video app, six months after launch. The Disney $1B deal is off, and the API is going away, too.

The arc is fascinating if you zoom out. The app launched in September 2025, hit the top of the App Store within a day, and reached 1M downloads faster than ChatGPT did. By January, downloads had dropped 45%, and the whole thing had made roughly $2.1M in in-app purchases over its lifetime.

PLG was the backbone of some of the fastest-growing companies in history.

Slack grew by making team invites frictionless. Dropbox gave you free storage for every referral. Zoom let you host 40-minute meetings without a credit card. Those models worked because reducing friction was enough.

I keep hearing and reading about how programmers are at risk; basically, everything that can be replaced by AI is at risk.

• Yesterday, Lenny Rachitsky shared a post that PM openings are at the highest levels since 2022.

• At the same time, I read how big giants (Meta, Amazon, etc.) are laying off engineers because of AI, and then I read about how they had to hire back again because something managed by AI went wrong.

I used to think "building a personal brand" was cringe. Like, who am I to think people care what I have to say?

Then I realized: it's not about being famous, it's just the distribution you own.

When you launch a product, you have two options:

I used to think "building a personal brand" was cringe. Like, who am I to think people care what I have to say?

Then I realized: it's not about being famous, it's just the distribution you own.

When you launch a product, you have two options:

Lovable hit $400M ARR with 146 employees. That's $2.7M revenue per employee. Midjourney goes even further. $500M revenue. ~110 employees. $0 raised from investors. That's over $4.5M per employee. Bootstrapped. For context: most SaaS companies celebrate $200k-$300k per employee as a strong benchmark.

If 146 people can generate $400M, what does the math look like at 10?

You open your GenAI tool (Claude, Gemini, etc.), type "write a LinkedIn post about [your topic]," get back something that sounds professional and polished, and immediately know it sounds fake.

But you're stuck. You don't have time to rewrite the whole thing, and you don't really know how to make it sound more like you without starting from scratch. So, maybe, you tweak a sentence or two and post it anyway, knowing it sounds like AI.

You open your GenAI tool (Claude, Gemini, etc.), type "write a LinkedIn post about [your topic]," get back something that sounds professional and polished, and immediately know it sounds fake.

But you're stuck. You don't have time to rewrite the whole thing, and you don't really know how to make it sound more like you without starting from scratch. So, maybe, you tweak a sentence or two and post it anyway, knowing it sounds like AI.

Great Scott!

This all goes back a bit to the era of NFT, virtual reality, when, during COVID, we went to virtual events, had VR glasses and promised ourselves that we would spend more time in some digital parallel reality online.

Well. So Facebook, with a growing portfolio and a new vision, renamed itself Meta.

That it would be the Metaverse.

Everyone on the internet seems to have an opinion on what stocks you should invest in. We prefer to let the numbers decide.

With CoreSight, agents do the work.

I've talked to 50+ founders about why they don't post on LinkedIn.

Almost all of them say "I don't have time" at first. But when I dig deeper, that's not really it. They'll spend 30 minutes scrolling Twitter, or an hour in a useless meeting, but they say they can't write one LinkedIn post?

I've talked to 50+ founders about why they don't post on LinkedIn.

Almost all of them say "I don't have time" at first. But when I dig deeper, that's not really it. They'll spend 30 minutes scrolling Twitter, or an hour in a useless meeting, but they say they can't write one LinkedIn post?

I started going to startup events a few months ago, and I kept asking founders the same question: "Are you active on LinkedIn?"

Almost everyone said no.

I started going to startup events a few months ago, and I kept asking founders the same question: "Are you active on LinkedIn?"

Almost everyone said no.