A partner at a mid-sized VC fund told me recently that his team was drowning in deal flow — 400+ inbounds a quarter, two junior analysts, and a mandate to not miss the next breakout company. Six...
Posts by Ty Sutherland
The AI Founder’s Toolkit: 12 Tools to Build Faster and Leaner
A solo founder in 2025 can build what would have required a 10-person team three years ago. That’s not an exaggeration — it’s what’s actually happening in thousands of early-stage...
How to Use AI for Video Creation: Idea to Publish in Half the Time
A year ago, making a polished video meant hiring an editor, a voiceover artist, maybe a motion graphics person, and clearing your calendar for a week. Today, a solo founder can go from rough idea to...
Most salespeople using AI in 2026 are doing it wrong. They’re using ChatGPT to write slightly-less-terrible cold emails, hitting send on 500 near-identical messages, and wondering why reply...
The AI Research Stack: Learn and Synthesize 10x Faster in 2026
Most people doing AI research in 2025 are still working like it’s 2019 — opening 15 browser tabs, copy-pasting summaries into Google Docs, and hoping they remember which paper said what. The...
How to Automate Your Workflow With AI Agents: 5 That Actually Work
Most people using AI are still stuck in prompt-and-reply mode — ask a question, get an answer, copy it somewhere, repeat. That works fine for drafting emails or summarizing a document. But...