Building

As AI commoditizes models and infrastructure, defensibility is shifting to taste, workflow, and trust.

The best founders watch faces, not dashboards.

The founder alone carries a responsibility that cannot be delegated.

A founder in his late 70s gave me that advice ~20 years ago. This week, he sold his company for $29B.

We hosted a forum of top consumer founders in NYC, from a brand launched last month to a company doing 9 figures in revenue. Here’s what they cited as their favorite AI tools right now.

The most durable companies are often built by founders who test obsessively, take risks when the timing is right, and embrace the quiet, unglamorous work of building brick by brick.