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TWS #020: Perplexity bids $34B for Chrome; Cloudflare clashes over AI bots; Shopify goes hard on AI agents; Tesla shut sdown Dojo
and much more...
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Barry Winata
How to Build a Billion Dollar Brand | Stef Ivanov (Pony Studio)
and why this matters in a world filled with noise
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Barry Winata
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Stef Ivanov 🐴
The Browser Wars Have Begun
and why the desire to capture attention is becoming so high stakes...
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Barry Winata
AI and the Great Adaptation
and why it's becoming the equalizer
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Barry Winata
MCP for the Non-Technical
Understanding the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for the non-technical, and why it's the USB-C for AI
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Barry Winata

field guides

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How to Build a Billion Dollar Brand | Stef Ivanov (Pony Studio)
and why this matters in a world filled with noise
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Barry Winata
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Stef Ivanov 🐴
1:12:20
Lessons on How Strava Scaled to 100M+ Users | Mark Gainey
Key lessons and tactics on building one of the most successful sporting consumer apps.
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Barry Winata
1:01:52
Mental Frameworks for Aspiring Leaders | Jennifer Garvey Berger
Jennifer is the CEO of Cultivating Leadership. She blends deep theoretical knowledge with a driving quest for practical ways to make leaders’ lives…
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Barry Winata
How to Build Your Advisory Network | Jessica Box (ex-Linktree, Matched)
Learn how founders, entrepreneurs, and operators can build their advisory network the right way.
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Barry Winata
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Jessica Box
MCP for the Non-Technical
Understanding the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for the non-technical, and why it's the USB-C for AI
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Barry Winata
How to Use Amazon's Powerful PRFAQ Framework For Anything! | Marcelo Calbucci (ex-Amazon, Microsoft)
Welcome to the 'NewFounder' edition of the newsletter.
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Barry Winata
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Marcelo Calbucci
58:10
Startup Lessons From Building a $400M Food Startup | Shawn Tsao (ex-Caviar acq. by Square)
Shawn Tsao was the co-founder of Caviar. They sold it to Square for $100 million. DoorDash then bought it from Square for $400 million.
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Barry Winata

deep dives

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Why Taiwan Builds all the Chips
Welcome to this deep-dive edition.
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How China Moves So Freaking Fast
and why it's next move is so important!
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Rippling vs. Deel - Inside the Corporate Espionage Rocking Silicon Valley
Thoughts on what it means to operate in a highly competitive space
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Is the Internet Running Out of Electricity?
Explaining the Energy Crisis
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Parallelism: It's About Time
NOTE: The above animation demonstrates (in very cool way), the difference between serial and parallel processing.
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Hidden in Plain Sight: AI Risks that No One is Talking About
In November 2022, OpenAI release ChatGPT on the world, and the response was nothing short of explosive.
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Startups: Competition is for losers. How to really stand out...
Most founders think their product will wow investors, but there’s a hidden factor that sets successful startups apart—and it’s not what you think.
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Barry Winata
Measuring The Moat: A Guide To Value Creation
A detailed summary from Counterpoint Global Insights (Morgan Stanley) on their in-depth guide to "Measuring the Moat"
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essays

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The Browser Wars Have Begun
and why the desire to capture attention is becoming so high stakes...
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Barry Winata
Why Humans Still Need Humans
The Story Behind Stack Overflow's Decline
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Why Every Builder Should Write From Day One
If you’re a builder or thinking about becoming one, your ability to write could be the difference between success and failure.
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AI and the Great Adaptation
and why it's becoming the equalizer
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Barry Winata
Ideas Are Meant To Be Thrown Away
Most of them will suck.
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Focus on the problem, not the solution
One of the biggest misconceptions that I’ve seen with founders on their pitches is around focusing on the problem vs.
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The Power of Urgency
Why urgency matters when you're building a business
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Build fast or die
I used to be pretty old-school about how software should be built.
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