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Ledgerline
Daniel Park's compliance platform had eighteen pilots and not one paying customer. The fix wasn't product. It was admitting which industry he was actually allowed to sell to.
complianceProfiled May 6
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Halt
Maya Okafor spent 14 months building an AI agent platform. The breakthrough came the weekend she shipped one feature and deleted everything else.
AI agentsProfiled May 6
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Onyx Labs
Onyx started as a weekend Slackbot that helped postdocs schedule lab equipment. Three years and a $11M Series A later, the bot is still in production.
biotechProfiled Apr 30
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Greenmark
Greenmark crossed $4M ARR with a team of three. The founder explains why she said no to twelve hires her board wanted her to make.
climate techProfiled Apr 15
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Switchboard
Our product saved a Fortune 500 AI team $2.3M in annual GPU spend. They still nearly canceled because of a $14k procurement line item.
AI infrastructureProfiled Apr 8
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Pondscale
We didn't have a product page. We had a public Google Doc with 84 footnotes. Here's how it became a distribution engine.
bootstrapProfiled May 6
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