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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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Video · ~20 min · Starting Up
Customer Discovery: What Do You Ask
Justin Wilcox
In 3 answers
- A DTC media buyer who has spent millions pushing the 'creative is the strategy' view, watch him break down real winning and... YouTube Video · D2C Nick Theriot (YouTube Channel) Nick Theriot In 3 answers
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Video · D2C
How to Register a Private Limited Company in India (Step-by-Step Guide 2025)
YouTube
In 3 answers
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Video · 45 min watch · GTM
How to Build a Tech Partner Program That Works
Cloud Software Association
In 3 answers
- What changes in your story when a developer loved product has to be sold to a CIO who has never heard of you. Directly relevant... Heavybit Video · 35 min · GTM Moving into the Enterprise: Fireside with Postman's Founder and CEO Adam Gross with Abhinav Asthana In 3 answers
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Video · How Founders Use AI
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)
Y Combinator / Andrej Karpathy
In 3 answers
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Video · How Founders Use AI
Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups | Lex Fridman #440
Lex Fridman
In 3 answers
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Video · How Founders Use AI
How To Build A Company With AI From The Ground Up
Y Combinator (Diana Hu)
In 3 answers
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Video · How Founders Use AI
I Ranked Every AI App Builder for 2026: Lovable vs Bolt vs Replit vs Cursor
Build Great Products
In 3 answers
- The episode that defined the category thesis; 300 potential billion-dollar companies. ycombinator.com Video · How Founders Use AI Vertical AI Agents Could Be 10X Bigger Than SaaS Y Combinator Lightcone (Garry Tan, Jared Friedman, Harj Taggar, Diana Hu) In 3 answers
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Video · How Founders Use AI
The Founder Who Automated Content Creation Using AI (Varun Mayya)
Bad Decisions Podcast
In 3 answers
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Video · How Founders Use AI
Founder-Led Sales for Y Combinator Demo Day (Sam Blond)
Sam Blond (ex-CRO Brex)
In 3 answers
- A widely followed Indian founder-educator (ex-CEO Groupon India / nearbuy) who speaks directly to the Indian salaried... ankurwarikoo.com Video · Short-form video series · Starting Up Ankur Warikoo, Entrepreneurship Ankur Warikoo In 2 answers
- A seasoned enterprise sales leader gives a crash course on selling into complex organizations like the Fortune 500, including... Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Video · ~45 min · Starting Up Go-to-Market Boot Camp for Startups: Field Sales Mark Cranney In 2 answers
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Video · About 3 minutes · Starting Up
Steve Blank: Want Your Startup to Succeed? Get Out of the Building
Steve Blank (Inc. Magazine)
In 2 answers
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Video · About 95 minutes (North Star segment near 1:19:21) · Starting Up
The original growth hacker reveals his secrets | Sean Ellis (author of "Hacking Growth")
Sean Ellis, interviewed by Lenny Rachitsky
In 2 answers
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Video · About 30 minutes · Starting Up
How to Get Users and Grow
Gustaf Alstromer
In 2 answers
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Video · ~15 min · Starting Up
How to CRUSH Facebook Ads with a Small Budget in 2026
Ben Heath
In 2 answers
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Video · Starting Up
How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week
Ali Abdaal
In 2 answers
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Video · about 1 hour · Starting Up
Mastering onboarding | Lauryn Isford (Head of Growth at Airtable)
Lenny Rachitsky and Lauryn Isford
In 2 answers
- YC's David Lieb walks through cohort retention: watching each week's new users and asking how many actually come back. For a... Y Combinator Startup School Video · ~20 min · Starting Up How To Improve Cohort Retention David Lieb In 2 answers
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Video · about 22 minutes · Starting Up
Consumer Startup Metrics | Startup School
Tom Blomfield
In 2 answers
- YC is openly skeptical of a remote co-founder (they discount the plan if a linchpin is distant), which makes this the most... Y Combinator Video · 35 min · Starting Up Best Practices for Managing a Remote Team Y Combinator In 2 answers
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Video · ~10 min · Starting Up
Product-market fit with Michael Seibel
Michael Seibel
In 2 answers
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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.
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