Founder Fridays

Founder Fridays No. 162

September Funding Data

Oct 3 • 

Kyle Westaway

12

September 2025

Founder Fridays No. 161

IPO Window Wide Open -- AI Creates Work, Not Unemployment -- Neural Band Changes Everything

Sep 26 • 

Kyle Westaway

22

Founder Fridays No. 160

Founder Discovery -- AI Pricing Matrix -- Margin Myopia

Sep 20 • 

Kyle Westaway

49

Founder Fridays No. 159

AI Beats Hiring -- It’s Pitch Season -- ROI Beats Hard Work

Sep 12 • 

Kyle Westaway

36

Founder Fridays No. 158

August Funding Data

Sep 5 • 

Kyle Westaway

60

August 2025

Founder Fridays No. 157

American Vulcan -- Pivoting at Light Speed -- Build Less, Win More

Aug 29 • 

Kyle Westaway

67

Founder Fridays No. 156

AI Kills Search Ads? -- Bootstrapping Beats Credentials -- Speed First, Moats Later

Aug 22 • 

Kyle Westaway

44

Founder Fridays No. 155

Meta’s Vision for Superintelligence -- AWS Origin Myths Debunked -- AI Agents Saving 3,500 Hours

Aug 15 • 

Kyle Westaway

49

Founder Fridays No. 154

YC’s Request for Startups -- Shopify's AI Transformation -- Medium's Death March Turnaround

Aug 8 • 

Kyle Westaway

45

Founder Fridays No. 153

July Funding Data

Aug 1 • 

Kyle Westaway

10

July 2025

Founder Fridays No. 152

Pricing Psychology Breakthrough -- The Story of Enron -- Pay Per Crawl

Jul 25 • 

Kyle Westaway

11

Founder Fridays No. 151

Windsurf's Talent Raid -- The Great Differentiation -- Sam Walton's Winning Playbook

Jul 19 • 

Kyle Westaway

14