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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. A productivity YouTuber's written playbook with real workplace use cases. jeffsu.org Guide · How Founders Use AI NotebookLM: A Comprehensive Guide Jeff Su
  2. Video · How Founders Use AI A NotebookLM Deep Dive Jeff Su
  3. Cuts through a year of feature launches to what is actually useful. jeffsu.org Article · How Founders Use AI NotebookLM in 2026: What Changed and What Matters Jeff Su
  4. Video · How Founders Use AI The Ultimate Guide to NotebookLM: All 2025 Features Explained YouTube tutorial
  5. Video · How Founders Use AI How to Use Google NotebookLM (Step-by-Step Guide) YouTube tutorial
  6. The launch thread from NotebookLM's editorial director, with a live example. x.com Thread · How Founders Use AI Rolling out audio overviews at NotebookLM Steven Johnson
  7. A rigorous independent tester's verdict on audio overviews. simonwillison.net Article · How Founders Use AI NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective Simon Willison
  8. The build story with the team, full of hints about using it well. latent.space Podcast · How Founders Use AI How NotebookLM Was Made Latent Space
  9. The creators explain grounding and why it hallucinates less. podcasts.apple.com Podcast · How Founders Use AI Inside NotebookLM with Raiza Martin and Steven Johnson Google DeepMind Podcast (Hannah Fry)
  10. A strategic conversation on source-grounded AI as a research paradigm. exponentialview.co Podcast · How Founders Use AI How NotebookLM was created and where it's going (live with Steven Johnson) Azeem Azhar, Exponential View
  11. Advanced workflows chaining NotebookLM with deep research outputs. medium.com Article · How Founders Use AI How To Use NotebookLM Better Than 99% Of People (Deep Research Workflow Guide) Daniel Ferrera
  12. Understanding how the podcast voice is engineered helps you steer it. nicolehennig.com Article · How Founders Use AI NotebookLM: reverse engineering the system prompt for audio overviews Nicole Hennig
  13. A business-user walkthrough of the current feature set. youreverydayai.com Podcast · How Founders Use AI NotebookLM: New features, what's next and complete walkthrough (Everyday AI ep 627) Everyday AI (Jordan Wilson)
  14. Keeps you current: structured data tables from your sources is a big founder unlock. 9to5google.com Article · How Founders Use AI NotebookLM now uses Gemini 3, adds new Data Tables output 9to5Google
  15. Practical notebook-organization patterns that keep answers sharp. medium.com Guide · How Founders Use AI NotebookLM 2025: The Only Practical Guide You Need Write A Catalyst (Medium)
  16. The builders on what the agent is genuinely good for versus demo-ware. sequoiacap.com Podcast · How Founders Use AI OpenAI Just Released Its Powerful New ChatGPT Agent (Training Data) Sequoia Capital
  17. The launch of the research-first agentic browser. perplexity.ai Article · How Founders Use AI Introducing Comet: Browse at the speed of thought Perplexity
  18. A detailed early hands-on with real tasks, not marketing claims. testingcatalog.com Article · How Founders Use AI Exclusive review: Comet Agentic browser by Perplexity TestingCatalog
  19. Explains the mechanics and the security surface of both browsers. humansecurity.com Article · How Founders Use AI ChatGPT Atlas vs Perplexity Comet: How Agentic Browsers Work HUMAN Security
  20. Concrete business workflows, including competitor and market monitoring. youreverydayai.com Podcast · How Founders Use AI 5 Business Use-Cases for Comet, Perplexity's agentic browser (EP 614) Everyday AI (Jordan Wilson)
  21. A sober enterprise take on what agentic browsing changes. ibm.com Article · How Founders Use AI Comet: Perplexity's AI browser gets personal IBM Think
  22. A later review once the novelty wore off; what stuck and what did not. secondtalent.com Article · How Founders Use AI Perplexity Comet Review: When the Browser Starts to Think Second Talent
  23. Research agents now output decks, dashboards and spreadsheets, not just reports. perplexity.ai Article · How Founders Use AI Deep Research, now in Computer Perplexity
  24. Labs turns a research question into apps, reports and dashboards in one run. perplexity.ai Article · How Founders Use AI Introducing Perplexity Labs Perplexity

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Starting Up Find an idea, validate it, build, and land your first customers. 1046 questions GTM Go-to-market, from breaking in to how the best teams do it. 352 questions D2C Building a direct-to-consumer brand, India-first. 482 questions Wealth Paying yourself, ESOPs, secondaries, and de-risking founder wealth. 154 questions How Founders Use AI How founders actually put AI to work, mapped topic by topic. 278 questions Glossary Plain-language definitions of the startup and VC terms you'll hit. 390 terms
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