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Founder Mode - 28 May 2025
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May 28, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes
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Hi there,
It’s a great time to be alive. The world’s moving at breakneck speed and so many opportunities to do something great everyday. Let’s lock in and keep building.
🔥 Top Finds
Google-Indonesia AI Commitment
Google Cloud and Indonesian government just unveiled a program backing 100 Indonesian startups with mentorship plus up to $350k in cloud credits. Great news for Indonesian founders and founders interested in expanding there.
The Great Reset
AI just pushed the reset button on engineering, design, and product. Even seasoned pros now have to rethink every move, because yesterday’s wins don’t give you tomorrow’s relevance. Everyone is a beginner in some way.
Bagel Open-Source VLM
ByteDance quietly released BAGEL, a 7B-parameter multimodal model that edits images, generates text-to-image, and even tackles world-navigation tasks. Open-sourced license, so you can fine-tune or embed it commercially today. Perfect for founders adding AI visuals without pricey APIs.
🎯 Startup Opportunities
Climate Impact Innovations Challenge Indonesia’s largest climate innovations tech competition. | SLINGSHOT 2025
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🛠 Tool of the Week
Den
Think Slack + Notion rebuilt for AI agents: real-time chat, docs, and agent workflows in one multiplayer space (launched 22 May). Perfect for spinning up agents that fetch data or draft briefs while everyone collaborates.
💬 Founder Mode Quotes
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” — Alan Kay
🙂 Fun Mode
Tim Cook after seeing OpenAI acquire Jony Ive’s startup io for $6.4B in an all-stock deal to make a family of AI devices with a team of Apple alumni while Siri is still unable to set a simple 9am alarm wake-up call.
— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan)
5:52 PM • May 21, 2025
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