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Every resource founders actually use, in one library.

The essays, videos, podcasts, books and tools behind every answer across eChai's hubs, from starting up to go-to-market, D2C, founder money and AI, each with a note on why it is here.

What founders use most, ranked by how many answers lean on it.

  1. Prompt-sampling methodology for consistent mention tracking. vizibleai.com Guide · How Founders Use AI How to Track Brand Mentions in ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity Vizible AI
  2. The canonical breakdown of the first AI-generated ad to air during the NBA Finals, tool by tool. adage.com Article · How Founders Use AI How Kalshi made an AI ad using Google Veo 3 Ad Age
  3. Flow is where most founder Veo workflows actually live; this is the official launch explainer. blog.google Article · How Founders Use AI Introducing Flow: Google's AI filmmaking tool designed for Veo Google
  4. The launch thread with side-by-side examples so you can judge output quality yourself. x.com Thread · How Founders Use AI Runway introduces Gen-4 (announcement thread) Runway
  5. A demo-specific walkthrough, useful when the ad tutorials skew too cinematic. kaizenaiconsulting.com Guide · How Founders Use AI How to Create Product Demo Videos Using Veo 3.1 and Google AI Studio Kaizen AI Consulting
  6. The screen-capture-first demo workflow, the right call when your product is software not pixels. supademo.com Guide · How Founders Use AI How to Make a SaaS Product Demo Video With AI Supademo
  7. SaaS-flavoured Veo + Flow recipes: founder messages, demos, and explainer formats. creolestudios.com Guide · How Founders Use AI AI Video Creation with Veo 3 and Flow for SaaS Creole Studios
  8. a16z's games team distills why seed-stage launch videos now get millions of views without agencies. speedrun.substack.com Guide · How Founders Use AI How to Make a Viral Launch Video a16z speedrun
  9. A CMO-level operator maps exactly which agency functions AI absorbs first. news.bulldozer-collective.com Article · How Founders Use AI The one-person marketing team (with AI) Kieran Flanagan (HubSpot)
  10. Frames the macro shift: why leverage per person is exploding across every creative function. forbes.com Article · How Founders Use AI The Billion-Dollar Company Of One Is Coming Faster Than You Think Mark Minevich, Forbes
  11. The moment the 'one person and 10,000 GPUs' prediction stopped being theoretical. x.com Thread · How Founders Use AI Sam Altman on winning the one-person billion-dollar company bet The Rundown AI
  12. Puts the $2,000 spot against the $200,000 agency equivalent, line item by line item. news.designrush.com Article · How Founders Use AI Kalshi's $2K NBA Finals AI Ad Shows Why Big-Budget Commercials Are Dying DesignRush
  13. Documents the 95% production cost cut that made a solo national ad possible. eweek.com Article · How Founders Use AI First Completely AI-Generated Ad Played During NBA Finals eWeek
  14. The India-market view: SMEs and regional brands skipping agencies, and the quality risk that follows. business-standard.com Article · How Founders Use AI AI-made ads promise cheaper reach, but can brands avoid the slop trap? Business Standard
  15. Actual consumer testing of AI ads instead of Twitter vibes. kantar.com Article · How Founders Use AI Rethinking AI-generated advertising: how real people really react Kantar
  16. India-market analysis of why imported AI aesthetics collapse local emotional connection. campaignindia.in Article · How Founders Use AI AI ads and the uncanny valley problem Campaign India
  17. Names the trust cost of synthetic endorsers that founders often ignore. techradar.com Article · How Founders Use AI AI video commercials are spreading, but people won't trust uncanny valley endorsements TechRadar
  18. The highest-profile cautionary tale: a legendary emotional brand failing the bar twice. forbes.com Article · How Founders Use AI Coca-Cola Sparks Backlash With AI-Generated Christmas Ad, Again Dani Di Placido, Forbes
  19. Craft-level autopsy of the specific frames that broke, useful as a checklist. creativebloq.com Article · How Founders Use AI What brands can learn from Coca-Cola's terrible AI Christmas ad Creative Bloq
  20. Trade-press view on when 'made with AI' becomes the story instead of your product. mediapost.com Article · How Founders Use AI What Marketers Can Learn From Backlash To Coke AI Ads MediaPost
  21. Quick, shareable summary of the backlash mechanics for your team. contentgrip.com Article · How Founders Use AI Coca-Cola's AI holiday ad triggers backlash ContentGrip
  22. The moment the internet's favourite quality benchmark fell, with the footage. petapixel.com Article · How Founders Use AI Google's Veo 3 Nails the Infamous Will Smith Eating Spaghetti Test PetaPixel
  23. Two years of quality progress compressed into one legible story. hackernoon.com Article · How Founders Use AI How Will Smith Eating Spaghetti Became a Benchmark for AI Video Progress HackerNoon
  24. Where the quality frontier sits after the benchmark broke, and what still fails. forbes.com Article · How Founders Use AI AI Nailed The 'Will Smith Eating Spaghetti' Test. What Now? Dani Di Placido, Forbes

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Starting Up Find an idea, validate it, build, and land your first customers. 1327 questions GTM Go-to-market, from breaking in to how the best teams do it. 379 questions D2C Building a direct-to-consumer brand, India-first. 512 questions Wealth Paying yourself, ESOPs, secondaries, and de-risking founder wealth. 165 questions How Founders Use AI How founders actually put AI to work, mapped topic by topic. 360 questions Glossary Plain-language definitions of the startup and VC terms you'll hit. 425 terms
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