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In 2010, two Irish kids set out to pull off the biggest upset in Silicon Valley history. With one email to Paul Graham and a simple hack, they built a $95B company. Here's the crazy story: At 16, Patrick and John Collison built software for eBay

Topmate - The Scam. Singlehandedly ruined the image of Indian Startups last week. Here's what happened: They listed big people like Elon Musk, Paul Graham, Naval Ravikant, Mr beast on their website and promoted that as if its true. Here's the cra

I recently spent time studying how small businesses in India are using AI to scale. It's inspiring — technology isn't replacing people, it's empowering them. In the next 5 years, digital tools will become as essential as electricity. Let's make sur

ViaWeb, the Shopify of 1900s! So, in 1990s, when the world was Still trying to adapt to the internet, Paul Graham along with his 2 friends were working on something big! They were making a tool that helped people make and manage their online stores

How Silicon Valley Companies Thinks? What Matters 'Profits' or 'Valuations'........🤔 let me tell you a secret. In silicon valley, companies often operate differently from traditional businesses. here the focus is less on making immediate profits a

FamPay clearly knew what they were doing. Only reason why their core business of making a neo bank for Teens didn't work well is that they were too early. They were trying to promote Online Payments for teens when their parents themselves hadn't ada

Why and How YC Was Started? So, raising seed funding was always slow, complicated, and a hard job. Founders often relied on informal investments from friends or family, with little to no standardization, leaving them vulnerable to legal and financi

In the early days of Airbnb, founders Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk struggled to find investors. They tried to raise $150,000 for 10% of the company but faced many rejections. Despite pitching to several prominent investors, no one

Keith Rabois explains “Founder Mode” and its similarities to how PayPal was run in the early days At PayPal, promotions weren’t about managing—they were about mastery. The best designer led design. The best engineer led engineering. No middle manag

In 2006, Yahoo offered $1B for Facebook. Every advisor told Zuck to sell. But one mysterious mentor told him to hold. Today Facebook is worth $1.5 TRILLION. Meet the hidden genius who saw Facebook's future before anyone else: In 2005, Facebook w