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How Much Equity Should Founders Keep Post Pre-Seed? Most founders don’t realise how quickly they lose control over 2-3 rounds. If you’re at the pre-seed stage in India, here’s the equity range I recommend: a. Founders (combined): ~80-85% b. ESOP p

Naval Ravikant on VCs that replace founders with “bozo CEOs” If you want to build a truly great company, you must stay in control. Naval Ravikant explains it simply: The best businesses are built by founders who never give up. Investors who belie

How to be mentally strong: . Don't fear alone time. . Don't dwell on the past. . Don't feel the world owes you. . Don't expect immediate results. . Don't fear taking calculated risks. . Don't give up after the first failure. . Don't shy away from re

Musk files case against Apple-OpenAI deal! Elon Musk’s xAI has filed a case in Texas, saying Apple gave OpenAI unfair control by making ChatGPT the default on iPhones. 1) Apple dropped its own AI plans and backed OpenAI 2) iPhone users get ChatGPT

A year ago, OpenAI felt unstoppable. Now? Feels like it's hitting every wall at once. • They bought into Jony Ive’s $6.5B vision — now getting sued by iyO • Meta’s scooping up their best minds with $100M offers • Microsoft, once their biggest ally,

Most startups raise funding from investors in exchange for company shares, and then use that money to pay salaries to their employees, market the product and all. But what if we skipped the middle step? Instead of raising money and giving away share

It seems like India is also, in some ways, making the same mistakes as China. Right now, our finance ministry is trying to get Indian companies listed on the UK stock market as well. But this might reduce FII participation in the Indian market maybe

In the last one year, I have noticed a new pattern in ETFs. If the index falls by 2%, your ETF will fall by 2.5%. If the index grows by 5%, your ETF will only grow by 3%. This extra gap is not adjusted later by the AMC in India. This means that ETFs

• Flipkart wants to acquire majority stakes of Zepto at the valuation of $ 2Billion but Zepto rejected the deal because of Zepto founders don't want to lose control over the company in future. • But why Flipkart wants to acquire majority stakes of Z

Windsurf was one of the hottest AI startups in 2025. They were about to get acquired by OpenAI for around three billion dollars. The whole team was excited, the deal was almost done. Then out of nowhere, the cofounders backed out. Not only did they w