Startupable
The outsider’s guide to Silicon Valley. I came here as a foreigner to learn what truly sets the best apart: the decisions, strategies, and mindsets that outsiders often see more clearly than insiders.
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BCG CTO: Only 5% Use the AI You Pay For | Matthew Kropp (opens the original)
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Presented by Ashurst Perkins Coie. Paul Navarro works with some of the best founders in Latin America, many of them guests on the podcast. I always ask my guests who I should interview next, and the only time anyone recommended a lawyer, it was Paul. Glad to have them as a founding sponsor. 👉 ashurstperkinscoie.com/professionals/paul-l-navarro ------------------------- 95% of your team doesn't use the AI you're paying for. That's the gap Matt Kropp keeps finding inside the biggest companies in t
Resend CEO: Why Great Startups Enter Bad Markets | Zeno Rocha (opens the original)
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resented by Ashurst Perkins Coie. Paul Navarro works with some of the best founders in Latin America, many of them guests on the podcast. I always ask my guests who I should interview next, and the only time anyone recommended a lawyer, it was Paul. Glad to have them as a founding sponsor. 👉 ashurstperkinscoie.com/professionals/paul-l-navarro ------------------------- Every founder is taught to avoid crowded markets. Zeno Rocha bet his company on one of the most crowded markets in tech: email. H
Manifest: The $100B Bet on AI-Native Law Firms (opens the original)
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This episode is presented by Ashurst Perkins Coie, the law firm guiding emerging companies from incorporation to exit. → ashurstperkinscoie.com/professionals/paul-l-navarro ----------------------------- When Dan Mishin set out to build legal services powered by AI, every investor gave him the same feedback: why not just sell software? He refused. Selling software to law firms didn’t fix the system and incentives behind expensive legal services. The bet underneath it: AI is the leverage that
🎧 The 25 yo Brazilian vs Scale, Mercor & Surge | José Nunes, Vetto AI (opens the original)
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This episode is presented by Ashurst Perkins Coie, the law firm guiding emerging companies from incorporation to exit. → ashurstperkinscoie.com/professionals/paul-l-navarro ----------------------------- Frontier AI labs have no shortage of companies willing to collect data for them. Their harder problem is determining which data will actually make their models better. José Nunes built Vetto to solve that problem. Instead of waiting for a lab to specify the data it needs, Vetto studies where a
The CTO Who Turned Down Pro Soccer to Build Firecrawl | Nicolas Silberstein, Firecrawl (opens the original)
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At 12, one of Brazil's biggest soccer clubs offered Nicolas a spot on its pro track. Saying yes meant dropping out of school. He said no. Today he's playing the "main league" of Silicon Valley: building an AI company in SF, against the smartest, best-funded people in the world. In his words, "you're playing against the Pelés and Kakás." That company became Firecrawl, the biggest web-scraping repo on GitHub. 170k stars from a team of 20. Firecrawl does one unglamorous job: it reads webpages for A
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