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Founders on the Record

Long-form interviews with the people doing the building.

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The founder who stopped posting

A conversation about walking away from a 40,000-follower audience and what replaced it. We met in an office that has clearly not been optimised for a camera, which is the first honest…

Daniel Reyes · 24 July 2026 · 1 min

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Eighteen months of saying no

A founder on refusing every category label offered to her, and what that cost in the first year. The company had been offered three category labels by three different sets of investors,…

Daniel Reyes / 28 June 2026 / 1 min

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