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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. Shows AI restructuring messy PDF data and running models unprompted, the exact grunt work founders dread. x.com Thread · How Founders Use AI Ethan Mollick on Code Interpreter's statistical common sense Ethan Mollick
  2. Mollick's line that things that took weeks in his PhD were done in seconds, with fewer errors than a human analyst. fortune.com Article · How Founders Use AI Code Interpreter might be the most useful application of AI so far Fortune
  3. Video · How Founders Use AI How AI Completely Reshaped This Data Analyst's Job (Luke Barousse) Ken's Nearest Neighbors Podcast
  4. Two practitioners compare the tasks worth delegating to AI versus the ones worth learning yourself. creators.spotify.com Podcast · How Founders Use AI How We Use AI as Data Analysts (Data Career Podcast ep 76) Data Career Podcast with Luke Barousse
  5. The balanced case for how much SQL a non-analyst actually needs now that AI writes queries. mavenanalytics.io Article · How Founders Use AI Do You Still Need to Learn SQL in the Age of AI? Maven Analytics
  6. A veteran SQL author argues the skill shifts from writing queries to judging them. sqlpatterns.com Article · How Founders Use AI Should you still learn SQL (in the age of LLMs)? Ergest Xheblati (Data Wise)
  7. The counter-argument: why a thin layer of SQL literacy still compounds even with AI on top. learnsql.com Article · How Founders Use AI SQL in 2025: What's New and Why It Still Matters LearnSQL.com
  8. A clean mental model for stacking AI on top of traditional tools instead of choosing between them. blog.datawithbaraa.com Article · How Founders Use AI Excel vs Power BI vs SQL vs Python vs AI Data With Baraa
  9. Video · How Founders Use AI AI Was Supposed to Replace Data Analyst Jobs. Here's What Actually Happened Kedeisha Bryan
  10. A founder who built a BI company explains why most companies over-invest in data tooling. changelog.com Podcast · How Founders Use AI What even is the modern data stack, featuring Benn Stancil The Changelog
  11. The sharpest industry writer on what AI actually changes about the analyst's craft. benn.substack.com Article · How Founders Use AI Analytics is at a crossroads Benn Stancil
  12. OpenAI's own free walkthrough, including the framing prompt 'I'm trying to decide X, based on Y'. openai.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Analyzing data with ChatGPT (OpenAI Academy) OpenAI
  13. The pandas creator and a BI founder debate what survives of data work after LLMs. wesmckinney.com Podcast · How Founders Use AI Everything's a Fad (Including This Podcast), with Benn Stancil (The Test Set) Wes McKinney and Benn Stancil
  14. An ex-Meta data scientist's compact framework for when AI beats doing the analysis by hand. classcentral.com Video · How Founders Use AI Data Analysis With AI in 21 Minutes Tina Huang
  15. A data-tool founder shows the practical ceiling of chat-based analysis, and how to work within it. definite.app Article · How Founders Use AI Analyzing data in ChatGPT like your job depends on it Definite
  16. Why 'insight' needs human context even when AI does all the computation. datacamp.com Podcast · How Founders Use AI Why the Future of AI in Data will be Weird, with Benn Stancil DataCamp DataFramed
  17. Video · How Founders Use AI Will AI Replace Data Analysts? The Honest Answer Zazo
  18. The canonical reference for file uploads, supported formats, and getting chart output. help.openai.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Data analysis with ChatGPT (official help) OpenAI
  19. A university-grade walkthrough of a full exploratory analysis, not a toy demo. ai-analytics.wharton.upenn.edu Guide · How Founders Use AI Exploring Data with ChatGPT: A Step-by-Step Guide Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative
  20. Video · How Founders Use AI ChatGPT Data Analysis Tutorial: Upload and Analyze PDF and Excel Files Ramesh Fadatare
  21. Video · How Founders Use AI Julius AI Tutorial: Analyze & Visualize Data with Simple Prompts IvyProSchool
  22. A real data team walks through AI-first investigation of a conversion drop, workflows you can copy. podcasts.apple.com Podcast · How Founders Use AI "Vibe analysis": How Faire's data team uses AI to investigate product quality How I AI with Claire Vo
  23. Ready prompts that turn 50 open-ended survey responses into themes and sentiment in a minute. zonkafeedback.com Guide · How Founders Use AI Survey Analysis with ChatGPT: Prompts, Framework & When to Level Up Zonka Feedback
  24. A rigorous method for AI-assisted theme extraction that survives scrutiny. thematicanalysis.ai Guide · How Founders Use AI How to Analyse Open-Ended Survey Responses thematicanalysis.ai

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The hubs

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