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Welcome to issue 601 of Founder Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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Multipreneurship 101 and Why It Matters
Jesse Pujji, the founder of Gateway X, a venture studio and holding company that builds and launches companies from scratch. In this episode, Greg asks Jesse how unfair advantages are gained and leveraged.

How Headspace Grows: The Monk Who Built a $3B Meditation App
Lessons on category design and creation, the power of unshipping features, onboarding, and content-driven growth.

What’s the future of generative AI? An early view in 15 charts
Generative AI has hit the ground running—so fast that it can feel hard to keep up. Here’s a quick take pulled from our top articles and reports on the subject.

The Gen Z Consumer Tech Wave Is Coming – Here’s What We’re Tracking
Battery Ventures' Gen Z Consumer Tech report offers an in-depth look into what truly drives this dynamic demographic and how their values and preferences are altering the business landscape, focusing on Gen Zers’ distinct buying patterns and outlooks across major consumer verticals.

Marketing, Sales and PR

An inside look at Deel’s unprecedented growth
Deel went from $0 to $300m in ARR in 3 years (fastest company in history to do so). In this episode, we discuss: How Deel found success leveraging low-cost growth channels, Why early awareness campaigns are a waste of time in B2B, How to create effective SEO content, Deel’s “traffic light” framework, When it makes sense to invest in paid ads, The art of structuring growth teams and Building a startup culture.

Marketing Automations Notebooks With GPT
A collection of automations and experiments exploring the applications of generative AI in Marketing, SEO, and Public Relations

Cloud Unit Economics
The math explaining why high cash burning cloud companies *might* make sense.

The B2B SaaS Golden Quadrant
Q2 SaaS buying patterns - ACV vs Transaction Count.

Pleo’s Haresh Bajaj on How PLG + Sales Put the Company on the Path to Crossing €100M ARR
Pleo's VP of Growth, Haresh Bajaj, shares an exclusive look into building a product-led org structure, and the secret sauce to increasing the ROI of PLG. Read the story here.

Money and Finance

Raise Less, Build More
David Trohan argues that the "raise less, build more" approach is becoming increasingly popular among founders, as they realize that it is not always necessary to raise large amounts of capital in order to build a successful business. There are several benefits of this approach, including reduced dilution, more focus and more resilience

Is 2023 the very best or the very worst time to be investing in AI?
7 Charts that help explain a bubble in a bear market.

Why Starting Your Investor Updates With “Cash on Hand” Information is a Major Red Flag Right Now. It’s Maybe the Only Thing Worse Than Not Sending Updates at All.
Starting your investor updates with cash on hand information is a major red flag because it signals that you are more focused on survival than growth. Investors want to see that you are focused on building a great company, not just on staying afloat.

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