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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.
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Podcast · How Founders Use AI
OpenAI's Dots lead on the future of ChatGPT
Sources Podcast (Alex Heath)
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Podcast · How Founders Use AI
How A.I. Agents Are Going to Transform Our Lives | Hard Fork
Hard Fork (The New York Times)
- 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)
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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
- 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
- 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
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Podcast · ~45 min · Starting Up
Tech Billionaire Sridhar Vembu On Building Zoho, Village Economy, Silicon Valley & AI
Sridhar Vembu (Josh Talks)
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- 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
The hubs
Starting Up
Find an idea, validate it, build, and land your first customers.
GTM
Go-to-market, from breaking in to how the best teams do it.
D2C
Building a direct-to-consumer brand, India-first.
Wealth
Paying yourself, ESOPs, secondaries, and de-risking founder wealth.
How Founders Use AI
How founders actually put AI to work, mapped topic by topic.
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Plain-language definitions of the startup and VC terms you'll hit.
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