> Founders who've never written a line of code before are shipping production applications, reaching revenue before scaling headcount
Stats please
The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
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Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
#82>As an AI-native startup founder, your responsibility is to know what's in your codebase, understand any potential exposure vectors, and not ship obvious vulnerabilities to real users who are trusting you with their data. This is fairly funny coming from the company whose employees report merging in hundreds of PRs per engineer per day, and accidentally leaked their own source code through a security misconfiguration…
Yeah this is a Mythos pitch.
Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
#83Feels like a category error. It's a slide deck telling people what a product can do (that's a normal thing to release for a company), but the thing it tries to sell you on is building your own business based on their tool. Which makes no sense the way they sell it, because "founding a business" is no standard process that could be formalized in a way like that, nor does it make sense for society to have people foundi…
"Founding cannot be a commodity. If it is, you have no moat or point, meaning you instantly collapse again, because you are an interchangeable commodity."
IMHO you still need to find the product and PMF
There are bunch of books startup world recommends which sort of all start from the principle of product, users, traction.
This is sort of scaffolding around that. It's not entirely insane to try to formalize this process - there already are books that do this (Bill Aulet, Disciplined entrepreneurship).
"nor does it make sense for society to have people founding businesses at a scale"
Maybe not at scale of moving lawns but I'm pretty sure the world is full of nichces that still lack specific software offering or where options of software offerings are limited.
This is like "Uber for logging" or "time reservation system for cat dentists" level of "take existing product category and apply to a domain you know".
So not every cat dentist needs to found a cat dentist time reservation app but I'm sure there are niches withing niches with business opportunities awaiting.
Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
#84> Founders who've never written a line of code before are shipping production applications, reaching revenue before scaling headcount Stats please
I'm sure there are at least two in the world
Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
#85Feels like a category error. It's a slide deck telling people what a product can do (that's a normal thing to release for a company), but the thing it tries to sell you on is building your own business based on their tool. Which makes no sense the way they sell it, because "founding a business" is no standard process that could be formalized in a way like that, nor does it make sense for society to have people foundi…
Their argument on page 10 is that now agentic coding reduces the effort of writing code there will be far more failures unless you validate the idea properly. We are actually seeing that in that the number of apps on the app stores is increasing but usage is not increasing. Some would argue that the right process will lead to the right results.
The barrier to entry drops and so more garbage enters the market. This has happened many many times but there can be a massive and beautiful paradigm shift at the same time. Think about YouTube. Most stuff on there is garbage, but compare the good stuff of today to pre-YouTube content. To be quite honest, I think most of the best media is going straight onto YouTube.
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#86This framework does not sound that much different from what people used to do but with AI agents and coding assistants, and this is not going to work unless you are lucky. LLMs cannot come up with good ideas and coding (if you believe it is solved) is no longer moat especially in the early stages.
So either go viral or go home.
Obviously personal connections, timing, market position all play role but let's be honest - this is not something that can be planned although in retrospect it may seem so. A % of the population will get all of this right many times in a roll but this is just mathematical certainty.
Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
#87Why's everyone selling themselves as "AI-native" these days?
Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
#88Feels like a category error. It's a slide deck telling people what a product can do (that's a normal thing to release for a company), but the thing it tries to sell you on is building your own business based on their tool. Which makes no sense the way they sell it, because "founding a business" is no standard process that could be formalized in a way like that, nor does it make sense for society to have people foundi…
It makes sense if you think of 'founder' as an identity like 'influencer', rather than 'someone actually seriously founding a business'; just as with influencers, some people will make a lot of money doing it for real, but many, many more will post enthusiastically on social media, living the aesthetic. A lot of people already treat being a founder/entrepreneur as who they are, not what they do--witness the endless t…
An enormous amount of LinkedIn appears to be more about gatekeeping what other people can do than doing anything yourself.
Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
#89Re: The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
#90Especially as someone outside the US, building a startup on AI sounds like a bad idea. Some AI company fails to pay their bribes on time, or your country doesn't cede territory to the US president, the AI gets yoinked and you are left with Mistral or Qwen. (Technically that also applies to MS Teams, Google and so on and not just AI)
Even worse if you build your processes around one ai provider like anthropic.