💕 How to earn customers for life

In this first in-person episode, Dalton and Michael reveal how startups can gain a competitive advantage by doing something deceptively simple: caring deeply about your users. If you want to build a business that customers love and that thrives in the long run, this is the key.

📕 Surbhi Sarna's new book on entrepreneurship

YC Group Partner Surbhi Sarna's new book, Without a Doubt, launched this week. It tells the incredible story of her company, nVision Medical, which started with a health scare when she was 13 and ended 20 years later in a $275M acquisition.

As YC's Jared Friedman shares: "It's a must-read for anyone interested in healthcare. But it's also a must-read for any founder who feels underestimated, or anyone who isn't sure if starting a startup is for them."

🚀 The Launchpad

🌎 YC Community

🔥 Hacker News

1. I'm a very slow thinker (2016) (sive.rs/slow)
2. Want an unfair advantage in your tech career? Consume content for other roles (matthewgrohman.substack.com)
3. Discord, or the Death of Lore (ascii.textfiles.com)
4. Lisp-powered laptop with a battery life measured in years (hackster.io)
5. Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely (techtarget.com)
6. How to start a rocket engine (everydayastronaut.com)
7. Load 'em up and throw 'em under the bus (rachelbythebay.com)
8. The Internet’s Richest Fitness Resource Is a Site from 1999 (newyorker.com)
9. A suspiciously criminal portfolio website (http://blueshirt.com/)
10. Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment (simonwillison.net)
11. TypeScripting the technical interview (richard-towers.com)

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