The US constitution is neither bone nor stone. It is an explosion of ideas. Parchment decays and ink fades, but ideas endure; they also change. - Jill Lepore www.ft.com/content/aeb1...

CloudFlare hiring 1,111 interns for 12-week stints in Austin, NYC, SF, Bengaluru, Lisbon and London. blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1...

When innovation happens fast, it is thanks to earlier innovation that progressed slowly.

Aalto Founder Talks series: Inaugural session with the profoundly inspirational startup entrepreneur Monika Liikamaa. Recording freely available from the Finnish national broadcasting company for the next weeks. areena.yle.fi/1-76081215

Kilo Code is an AI coding agent for VS Code kilocode.ai

Employee stock option programs are often not rewarding at all - until you fix the problem, like Column did. column.com/blog/debuggi...

How to build a winning AI team medium.com/@agonzalez_4...

The Next Founder. All startups are different but end up having many of the same problems. www.nextfounder.co

If it bothers you that LLMs give different answers if you ask the same question again, read this blog posting thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeati...

State of Software 2025 report by Iconiq Capital www.iconiqcapital.com/growth/repor...

Top AI companies according to Madrona Ventures:

La-Proteina can figure out protein structure better than most research.nvidia.com/labs/genair/...

After a week in SF, I’ve seen more AI demos than I can count. The pace of building here is insane. Founders go from idea → prototype → first paying users in weeks or even days. The whole city feels like it’s on fast-forward. - Aaro Isosaari, CEO, Flow AI

Is speed now the most important factor in building a successful startup? Also: * Hire only A-players * Build a culture that lasts * Solve "hair-on-fire" problems www.linkedin.com/posts/ido-ge...

We're in danger of becoming people who can do anything but don't understand anything about how we did it. Struggle isn't inefficiency. It's education. Bring back getting lost! www.linkedin.com/posts/natecl...

History shows that those who adopt and diffuse technology fastest win. - Eric Schmidt

The stages of a startup. How do you make progress? buildtoscale.substack.com/p/understand...

In the AI era, we need more fair use and fair licensing of copyrighted material. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anth...

Successful startup founders typically met their co-founder(s): * in college or high school * working for the same startup or tech company But there are notable exceptions.

Startup funding alternatives reviewed in 6 quick minutes www.youtube.com/watch?v=S740...

Every text here is golden. Concrete and sage advice to startup leaders by one of the best coaches in the tech industry: Rich Hagberg. www.linkedin.com/in/rich-hagb...

Is Index Ventures the World's Best VC? www.linkedin.com/pulse/index-...

AI is already delivering 10x product experiences for a 1/10th of the cost. AI companies have the capabilities to attack the $6T white-collar services market, which is 20x larger than US enterprise software spend. a16zgrowth.substack.com/p/ai-superch...

Mark your calendar for Aalto Founder Talk with the amazing startup founder Monika Liikamaa at 14:00hrs on Thu 18 Sep 2025 in the Marsio building on the Aalto University campus.

Instead of trying to be good locally, we should pursue being the best in the world. Entrepreneurs: ✨ Celebrate your successes. ✨ Speak openly about your failures. ✨ And whatever you do, set your goals high enough – then exceed them. www.linkedin.com/posts/antman...

Nothing beats finding your cofounder through your studies. speedrun.substack.com/p/how-40-lea...

Customer intimacy in Finance: Not what you think. medium.com/@agonzalez_4...

Top two quantum computer manufacturers: IBM which has made the most dollars and IQM which has made the most deployments. thequantuminsider.com/2025/08/19/i...

Great to see the steady improvements at Hewlett Packard Enterprise over a long time under Antonio Neri's skilled and dedicated leadership. www.linkedin.com/pulse/hpe-ac...

What is it like to be the CEO of fast-growing disruptive stuff someone else created? Mike Maples asked me and I elaborated. Enjoy! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Day One for new students at Aalto University. Making sure Aalto Founder School is on their radar.

New consumer services built on AI is a great thing, but there aren't that many consumer online minutes up for grabs. www.sarahtavel.com/p/will-ai-be...

The premier European quantum company raises $300m. Exceptional technical execution, disciplined approach to product development, and clear market vision. www.1011vc.com/insights/why...

The future belongs to those who dare. I choose to live in Europe because it gives me peace. I build in America because it gives me scale. - Martin Varsavsky ‪@martinvars.bsky.social‬ www.linkedin.com/posts/martin...

A startup journey from $0 to $25billion. By Brian Halligan www.linkedin.com/pulse/startu...

It’s going to be faster to teach product managers how to develop with AI agents, than to teach developers how to be product managers. - Adrian Cockcroft, of AWS, Netflix and Sun Microsystems fame www.linkedin.com/posts/adrian...

100 x 100 is a goal Finland's startup community is setting. Build 100 new startups that reach 100 million in sales within 10 years. That's 10 billion in new business. (100x100 is also a measure of strong timber)

Europe to build 1,000 more unicorns says the Bondo Foundation. bondo.foundation/sovereignty-...

The top private companies building with and enabling AI & GenAI that will shape our future. www.ia40.com/the-list

Books for founders who want to succeed

Do startup founders need to be unreasonable? writing.nikunjk.com/p/the-best-c...

Finland has produced 18 centaurs over the past 25 years: www.linkedin.com/posts/kristo...

Linear has an option program made with the employees in mind linear.app/now/giving-o...

EU needs to invest €1.2 trillion per year geopolitique.eu/en/2025/08/2...

Founder breakfast at Aalto Cafetoria.

A team. A space. Aalto Founder School.

I preordered The Transformation Principles: How to Create Enduring Change by Hemant Taneja

Why is quality so rare? - Karri Saarinen of Linear on crafting enduring quality in the digital domain, like artisans do in the physical domain www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCil...

Building a scalable open source software business. opencoreventures.com/blog/buildin...

Europe is not winning. www.wsj.com/world/europe...