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- Founder Mode - 4 June 2025
Founder Mode - 4 June 2025
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June 04, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes
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🔥 Top Finds
Southeast Asia's tech startups are chasing the American dream
Southeast Asian tech startups are increasingly focusing on the U.S. market, attracted by its size, maturity, and leadership in artificial intelligence. This is supported by venture capital firms recognizing the growth potential in targeting U.S. clients.
State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents
YC Partners - Garry, Harj, Diana, and Jared break down what they've learned from working with hundreds of founders building with LLMs: why prompting still matters, where it breaks down, and how teams are making it more reliable in production.
Anthropic Reportedly Hits $3 Billion In Annualized Revenue
The company has seen an unprecedented growth surge, primarily driven by enterprise demand for its AI models, especially in code generation.
How Stripe quietly build an empire
One of my favourite companies out there. Stripe became the financial plumbing for the entire internet without most people realizing it. The company rewired how online payments work at a foundational level through consistently focusing on the right things.
🎯 Startup Opportunities
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🛠 Tool of the Week
elevenlabs
ElevenLabs is revolutionizing audio creation with its cutting-edge AI voice synthesis platform. Considered one of the biggest players in the voice agent space, is stepping up its game with Conversational AI 2.0. The new platform lets you build your own voice agents — including concierges, chess coaches, and game characters — with minimal latency, automatic language switching, and the ability to juggle text and voice inputs at the same time. Plus, a new turn-taking model makes it far less likely to interrupt users.
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💬 Founder Mode Quotes
“The person who carefully designs their daily routine goes further than the person that negotiates with themselves every day.” — @ShaneAParrish
🙂 Fun Mode
Here's a thread of Wojak memes that will teach first time founders how to be a successful entrepreneurs.
Thinking that you're above sales or that people will just show up at your app is a classic first time founder mistake...
You must learn to sell!
1/n
— molson 🧠⚙️ (@Molson_Hart)
12:29 AM • Apr 27, 2021
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