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Chatting About Stablecoins, LINE Pay, and the B2B Era
A casual LINE debate over whether restaurants need stablecoin payments turns into a bigger question: is this an era where B2C startups get flattened by giants?
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Confessions of a Silicon Valley PM: AI Lab Secrets, Rest-and-Vest Hangovers, and the Myth of the Mentor
A conversation with a Silicon Valley product manager — the traffic-light framework for PM decisions, whether to validate a side project with interviews or a POC, the real inside story on DeepMind, Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta, and how hard it is to find a mentor in Silicon Valley.
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Conversation With the CEO of a $200M Company
A documented conversation with a startup CEO — going deep on go-to-market, the SEO engine I built at a developer platform, my own startup and why it closed, dropping out, risk-taking, and how AI is reshaping GTM and entry-level work.
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How a Teen Chatbot App Became Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI
Hugging Face started as a chatbot for teenagers. Here's the week it pivoted to open-source AI infrastructure — and what that pivot teaches builders.
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Coffee With iChef Co-founder Spencer: Design Context and Telling a Story a16z Can Hear
Notes from coffee with iChef co-founder Spencer: three kinds of context in software, why Taiwanese teams often pitch too much technology, and the moat question I had not resolved before an a16z Speedrun interview.
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GTM Isn't Sales or Marketing — It's the Plan That Sequences Both
Go-to-market gets used as a fancier synonym for 'sales and marketing.' It isn't one. A first-principles breakdown of what GTM actually decides, and why conflating it with the two functions it coordinates causes real strategy mistakes.
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What Is GTM Engineering? (And Why It's Not Just RevOps With AI)
GTM engineering turned go-to-market from a series of manual handoffs into a system you build. A look at what the role actually does, how it differs from RevOps, and why ~100 job listings for it now open every month.
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Coffee With David Zeng: Sell the Shovels, Charge for the Service
Notes from a coffee chat with David Zeng, co-founder of Beacons AI — on cancelling AI subscriptions, why the boring jobs are the ones worth paying for, and what 'Service as a Software' really means.
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Go-To-Market Is an Engineering Problem
Why the best distribution is built like a product: measurable, iterative, and instrumented end to end.