🚨The Truth About The AI Bubble
🔥 Y Combinator Playbook for AI Startups
In This Edition:
- 🚨The Truth About The AI Bubble
- 🎥 Turn 60-minute videos into 30-second visuals
- 📚 A list of the best resources on the internet
- 🎯 How to pitch in 10 slides or less
- 🧠 Why leadership content beats paid ads
- 🤖 The real definition of AI sales assistants
🚨YC Playbook for AI Startups in 2026
🚀 The Y Combinator Playbook for AI Startups in 2026
The AI gold rush is over.
What’s replacing it is quieter, sharper, and far more profitable.
In 2026, the winners won’t be the teams waiting on the next model drop.
They’ll be the ones orchestrating models, owning their evals, and scaling revenue with shockingly small teams.
YC founders are already playing this game.
Most startups haven’t noticed yet.
This edition breaks down the real AI playbook emerging inside Y Combinator—and how you can apply it before the window closes.
👉 Read it now before this becomes “obvious in hindsight.”
👉 Click through and steal the playbook while it’s still an edge.
🔥 Turn 60-minute videos into 30-second visuals
🔥 Turn 60-minute videos into 30-second visuals
Most founders are sitting on hours of high-signal video content—and doing nothing with it.
Meanwhile, a few smart operators are quietly turning YouTube lectures, podcasts, and talks into scroll-stopping infographics in minutes, not days—without designers, agencies, or bloated tools.
This edition breaks down the exact AI workflow they’re using to multiply content output, save time, and win attention across LinkedIn, X, and Pinterest.
👉 Open this now and steal the workflow before it becomes standard practice.
🧠 How Top Investors Actually Think About Startups
🚀 A list of the best resources on the internet
If you want to raise venture capital, stop thinking like a founder — and start thinking like a VC.
Most founders pitch harder.
The best ones reframe how they think.
This edition is a carefully curated map of the highest-signal resources on the internet—the same essays, newsletters, videos, and playbooks VCs quietly consume to spot winners early. No noise. No motivation fluff. Just frameworks, mental models, and pattern recognition.
If you want sharper instincts, better conversations with investors, and fewer costly mistakes—this one’s worth your full attention.
👉 Open it now and upgrade how you think about building, scaling, and raising.
📊 How to pitch in 10 slides or less
🧠What VCs Are Really Judging in Your First 10 Slides
Most startups don’t fail because the idea is bad.
They fail because founders chase VC money before they understand how the game is actually played.
This edition breaks down what VCs really look for, how to know if you’re actually VC-ready, and the quiet mistakes that kill deals before the first meeting ends.
If fundraising is on your roadmap—even “maybe later”—this is required reading.
👉 Open this now and learn how founders turn interest into signed term sheets.
Here are 450+ pitch decks showing how the biggest startups actually raised funding.
Not theory.
Not templates.
Real decks from companies that went on to raise millions—and billions.
You’ll see:
- How top startups structured their story
- What they highlighted (and what they left out)
- How they explained traction, markets, and vision
- Why investors said yes
👉 Browse 450+ real pitch decks and learn how big startups got funded.
✨ ICYMI — These Resources Blew Up This Week
Founders were scrambling for these drops—each one unlocked deal flow, investor access, or tactical fundraising shortcuts. If you missed them the first time, this is your chance to catch up before everyone else does.
Don’t wait. These are the kind of links founders bookmark—and competitors quietly use.
🔥 The Most Clicked Founder Resources
🔹 1000+ Angel Investors You Can Reach Today — One massive list to shortcut months of outreach.
🔹 Steal 100 Pitch Decks That Actually Closed — See exactly what winning decks look like.
🔹 101 Fintech VCs Most Founders Overlook — A free list built for fintech startups ready to raise.
🔹 300 Angels Backing Startups Right Now — A curated database for serious founders.
🔹 500 Ultra-Active Angels in One Place — Meet the angels writing checks this year.
🔹 Top 100 Angels You Should Pitch First — Your shortcut to high-signal early backers.
🔹 The 200 Angels Funding Fast-Growing Startups — A must-have list for early outreach.
🔹 The Pre-Seed Playbook Every Founder Needs — A practical guide to nailing your first raise.
🔹 2,500+ Verified Angels in AI & SaaS — Backers actively funding technical founders.
🔹 Fundraising Mistakes From a $13M Raise — Avoid the painful errors most founders repeat.
Don’t just save these—use them. The founders who act fastest raise fastest. Want these in a searchable Notion library?
🔥 Why Leadership Content Beat Paid Ads
🚀 How Lovable Hit $200M ARR Without Selling “Productivity”
Lovable didn’t win by selling AI productivity.
They won by selling human empowerment—and scaled to $200M ARR in 12 months without playing the usual Silicon Valley playbook.
No hype funnels.
No “AI saves you time” pitch.
Just a leadership-led movement that turned users into believers and content into distribution.
This edition breaks down exactly how Lovable engineered culture, community, and credibility into one of the fastest AI growth stories we’ve seen.
👉 Read this now to understand why most AI startups copy features—and miss the real advantage.
🔥 The real definition of AI sales assistants
🧠 Why “Just Using a CRM” Is Now a Sales Handicap
Sales teams aren’t losing deals because they lack hustle.
They’re losing because reps spend 40%+ of their time on research, notes, CRM updates, and follow-ups.
The smartest revenue teams are quietly fixing this—not with more headcount, but with AI sales assistants that think, suggest, and act in real time.
This edition breaks down what actually works, which tools matter, and how founders are redesigning sales orgs around AI—not bolting it on.
👉 Open this now and see how modern teams are selling faster with fewer people.
🔥WEB PICKS
🚀 China’s “AI Manhattan Project” Is Real — And It’s Closer Than Anyone Thought
Reuters reveals a homemade EUV prototype built from legacy parts and ex-ASML talent, aiming for domestically made advanced chips by 2028.
🚨 Generative AI Is Fueling a Dark Explosion in Child Exploitation
Investigators warn genAI is supercharging sextortion and synthetic abuse content, pushing enforcement systems to the breaking point.
🧠 $35M Bet on Reading Your Mind: Brain-Powered AI Wearables Go Mainstream
Neurable raises fresh capital to turn attention and intent signals into hands-free computer control.
😎 Your Glasses Are Now Listening — and Picking Your Music Too
Meta’s smart glasses gain “Conversation Focus” and Spotify integration that reacts to what you’re seeing in real time.
💰 Salesforce’s AI Flywheel Is Quietly Printing Money
6,000 new enterprise AI customers in one quarter push Agentforce past 18.5K users and over $540M in agentic ARR.
