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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. Podcast · How Founders Use AI OpenAI's Dots lead on the future of ChatGPT Sources Podcast (Alex Heath)
  2. Podcast · How Founders Use AI How A.I. Agents Are Going to Transform Our Lives | Hard Fork Hard Fork (The New York Times)
  3. A long-running security show on why prompt injection is built into how these models read text. podcasts.apple.com Podcast · How Founders Use AI Tokens in the Stream - Why LLMs are inherently insecure and prompt injection will persist Security Now (Steve Gibson, TWiT)
  4. Podcast · How Founders Use AI Inside India's Sovereign AI Ambition | ft. Pratyush Kumar and Vivek Raghavan of Sarvam AI Lightspeed India and Southeast Asia
  5. A long conversation with the founder of TSMC, one of the most consequential companies most people have never studied. It is a... Acquired Podcast · ~1 hr 30 min · Starting Up TSMC Founder Morris Chang (Acquired) Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal
  6. A concrete B2B founder story rather than theory, and one that happens to come from an India-built company (Paperflite,... The SaaS Podcast Podcast · ~55 min · Starting Up How They Closed 500 SaaS Customers With No Outbound Sales Omer Khan
  7. Podcast · ~45 min · Starting Up Tech Billionaire Sridhar Vembu On Building Zoho, Village Economy, Silicon Valley & AI Sridhar Vembu (Josh Talks)
  8. An Indian investor who has watched dozens of consumer businesses talks plainly about when Indian users actually start paying... The Neon Show Podcast · ~45 min · Starting Up Pratik Poddar, Nexus VP on the Growth & Monetization of EdTech Startups in India Siddhartha Ahluwalia (host), with Pratik Poddar (Nexus Venture Partners)
  9. Sizing a non-metro market is easier once you hear how founders actually reach it. This Forbes India episode profiles... Forbes India Podcast · Starting Up Small-town founders: Fearless entrepreneurs building new empires Forbes India
  10. Jason Rosenthal ran Lytro, whose light-field camera was a real technology bet that got overtaken because smartphone cameras got... a16z Podcast Podcast · ~40 min · Starting Up Stories of Startup Survival Mode (with Jason Rosenthal, former Lytro CEO) Ben Horowitz and Jason Rosenthal
  11. A market-size fight is rarely just about the numbers, it is often power, recognition, and who gets the final say wearing a... The Startup CEO Show Podcast · ~45 min · Starting Up Why Startups Fail Due to Co-Founder Conflict and How to Fix It (with psychologist Matt Jones) Mark MacLeod (host), Matt Jones (guest)
  12. Melanie Perkins spent years teaching design software to students before she ever started a company, and Canva came straight out... Lenny's Podcast Podcast · ~90 min · Starting Up The woman behind Canva shares how she built a $42B company from nothing (Melanie Perkins) Lenny Rachitsky
  13. This is a grounded India show where founder Gauri Devidayal interviews women who built real companies (ZestMoney in fintech,... Ladies who Lead Podcast · ~30 min per episode · Starting Up Women on Top in India Gauri Devidayal
  14. Michael Goldberg's series is built entirely around founders and ecosystems away from the famous hubs, from Cleveland to... Case Western Reserve University (Beyond Silicon Valley) Podcast · ~7 episodes, ~30 min each · Starting Up Beyond Silicon Valley Michael Goldberg
  15. Russ Fradin has started and sold companies across more than 30 years, so he is exactly the person to ask whether past wins... A Product Market Fit Show Podcast · ~46 min · Starting Up He walked away from $5M ARR, then built a $50M company (Russ Fradin, Founder of Larridin) Russ Fradin
  16. Nitesh Salvi went from late-night poker games in his student dorm to building one of India's larger poker platforms, which is... The Indian Startup Show Podcast · ~1 hr · Starting Up Nitesh Salvi, Founder & CEO of Pocket52, on building India's largest poker platform Neil Patel (host)
  17. A demo that works once on stage and a system that holds up for real users are two very different things, and this conversation... AI + a16z Podcast · ~45 min · Starting Up Building Production Workflows for AI Applications Tony Holdstock-Brown, Yoko Li and Derrick Harris
  18. This is the India-specific version of the question: Kabeer Biswas started Dunzo in 2014 as literally a WhatsApp group, used it... Prime Venture Partners Podcast Podcast · ~30 min · Starting Up Creating Magical Experiences with Kabeer Biswas, CEO & Founder Dunzo Sanjay Swamy
  19. When the conversations you want are happening in metro coffee shops you are not in, listen to the ones being recorded instead.... CIIE.CO Podcast · ~20 to 30 min per episode · Starting Up Build For Bharat Bharat Inclusion Initiative, CIIE.CO
  20. This is the India-specific version of the same lesson: a founder-led conversation about the Account Aggregator framework and... Fintech Ki Baat Podcast · ~45 min · Starting Up Deep dive into India's Account Aggregator ecosystem (Fintech Ki Baat, with the founder of SAAFE) Shreyas Jani (host), with Venkatesh Krishnamoorti (SAAFE.in)
  21. This is the canonical show for founders who chose open source as more than a license: as the way people find, try, and trust... Open Source Startup Podcast Podcast · ~40 to 60 min per episode · Starting Up Open Source Startup Podcast Robby (MTF) and Tim (Essence VC)
  22. Ben Tossell built MakerPad, one of the best-known no-code education businesses (he sold it to Zapier), so this is a first-hand... Mixergy Podcast · Starting Up AI Made a No-Code Founder Into a Coder (Ben Tossell interview) Andrew Warner
  23. The in-house versus agency timing call is easier to make once you hear founders describe how their own team came together, and... SeedToScale Podcast · Ongoing series, episodes roughly 30 to 60 minutes · Starting Up SeedToScale, Curated by Accel Accel (hosted by Anand Daniel)
  24. Frameworks are useful, but sometimes you just want to hear how real founding teams actually got through a hard disagreement.... Apple Podcasts Podcast · Episodes ~30 to 60 min · Starting Up How I Met My Co-Founder Annie Garofalo

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