#tech founders

[yahoo]

Celebrating 22 Years of Yahoo!

By David Filo, Co-Founder & Chief Yahoo

Happy 22nd birthday, Yahoo!

I’m filled with so much pride as I reflect back on 22 years of Yahoo. When we first started the company, Jerry and I could never have imagined that one day Yahoo would serve more than a billion users. From our humble beginnings on the campus of Stanford, to "Jerry & David's Guide to the Worldwide Web," to "Do you Yahoo?", to our next chapter with Verizon, we've walked an incredible path. Every day I am excited to walk through these doors and work with such an incredibly talented team.

As we look to a new future, I recognize all that we’ve accomplished as a company and want to thank each and every one of our users and our Yahoos worldwide for your continued dedication and passion.

Yahooooooo!!!!

[surabhishenoy]

7 Must-Have Skills for Tech Founders

In my early days of entrepreneurship, I felt like an idiot - lost, confused, and stressed out. As I shared in my journey from engineer to CEO, this feeling is common among new entrepreneurs. It took me years to realize a crucial fact: I wasn’t an idiot, I just lacked skills.

Many tech professionals turned entrepreneurs focus on technical expertise, overlooking critical business skills.

You need a layered skill set at different stages of your business journey:

Skills to get your business off the ground.

Skills to direct and drive your business forward.

Skills to accelerate, scale, and manage rapid growth.

And skills that tie everything together for long-term success.

There are no shortcuts here. Just practical strategies to help you become an effective entrepreneur. We’ll cover:

Why “T-shaped” skill set is your secret weapon

7 critical skills tech founders need and how to build them

2 mental blocks sabotaging your growth and how to overcome them

Whether you're pre-launch or scaling past your first million, these are the skills that separate founders who burn out from founders who break through.

Full breakdown + join the CEO Mastery newsletter here: https://surabhishenoy.com/newsletter/essential-skills-tech-founders/

[vengoai]

Jason Sherman’s first ventures weren’t in Silicon Valley — they were in grade school. He crafted bracelets, sold mixtapes, and even wrote and published his own comic book that classmates snapped up.

That drive to create something people wanted has followed him ever since. Today, as CEO of Vengo AI, Jason is helping companies boost conversions by 95% through AI-powered sales agents.

From playground comics to AI that powers real-world growth — Jason’s always been building, always been selling, and always been innovating. 🚀

[spinnrblog]

In 2010, brothers Patrick and John Collison created Stripe to make online payments ridiculously easy for developers. Before Stripe, accepting payments online was a tangled mess of bank talks, compliance, and clunky systems.

Stripe’s clean API let startups plug in payments with just a few lines of code. Today, Stripe powers transactions for millions of businesses—from Amazon to Notion—and processes hundreds of billions annually.

With major backing from Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, and others, Stripe reached a $50B valuation in 2023.

The moral? Infrastructure matters. When you make hard things easy, scale follows naturally.

[vengoai]

In 2010, brothers Patrick and John Collison created Stripe to make online payments ridiculously easy for developers. Before Stripe, accepting payments online was a tangled mess of bank talks, compliance, and clunky systems.

Stripe’s clean API let startups plug in payments with just a few lines of code. Today, Stripe powers transactions for millions of businesses—from Amazon to Notion—and processes hundreds of billions annually.

With major backing from Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, and others, Stripe reached a $50B valuation in 2023.

The moral? Infrastructure matters. When you make hard things easy, scale follows naturally.

[blinqlabs]

The Tech Founder’s Friendly Guide to Branding

So you’ve poured your heart and soul into building incredible technology. It solves a real problem, it’s fast, it’s scalable, it’s… well, it’s tech. But zoom out for a second. In the bustling online world, especially in the tech space, there are so many smart companies vying for attention. Everyone’s talking about AI, SaaS, blockchain, cloud solutions… it can all start to sound a bit same-y to…

The Tech Founder’s Friendly Guide to Branding

[angelwithwings23]

type of guy that gets mad at other people when they don't respect his property rights over his girlfriend

[innonurse]

Health data: Q&A with Jonathan Bush

As one of the earliest healthtech founders, Jonathan Bush is sizing up the state of play as he looks to scale his latest venture, Zus Health (a health data startup).