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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. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Video · How Founders Use AI Will AI Replace Data Analysts? The Honest Answer Zazo
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. Video · How Founders Use AI ChatGPT Data Analysis Tutorial: Upload and Analyze PDF and Excel Files Ramesh Fadatare
  9. Video · How Founders Use AI Julius AI Tutorial: Analyze & Visualize Data with Simple Prompts IvyProSchool
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. Video · How Founders Use AI Turn Open-ended Survey Data into Insights with AI Philip Adu, Ph.D
  14. Independent research on where AI survey analysis is reliable and where it drifts. campaigninnovation.org Article · How Founders Use AI From Open-Ends to Insights: Leveraging AI in Survey Response Analysis Center for Campaign Innovation
  15. A respected marketer's concrete recipe for exporting GA4 data and interrogating it with AI. orbitmedia.com Article · How Founders Use AI How to combine ChatGPT with GA4 for content marketing insights Andy Crestodina (Orbit Media)
  16. Practical GA4-to-ChatGPT patterns for founders who find the GA4 interface hostile. monsterinsights.com Article · How Founders Use AI 8 Best Ways to Use ChatGPT with Google Analytics (GA4) MonsterInsights
  17. A connector that pipes live GA4 data into ChatGPT so you skip the CSV export step. windsor.ai Tool · How Founders Use AI Connect Google Analytics 4 to ChatGPT Windsor.ai
  18. Honest about the failure modes of CSV-in-chat analysis, not just the wins. wisdom.ai Article · How Founders Use AI Analyze CSV Data with ChatGPT: Tutorial, Challenges, and Limitations Wisdom AI
  19. A structured course if your growth data lives in GA4 and you want repeatable AI workflows. udemy.com Course · How Founders Use AI ChatGPT For Google Analytics 4: Ultimate 2025 Guide Udemy
  20. Maps Claude's chat, code-execution, and Claude Code layers so you pick the right one per job. datastudios.org Article · How Founders Use AI Claude for data analysis: files, charts, code, and context Data Studios
  21. The primary source on what Claude for Excel is built to do and for whom. anthropic.com Article · How Founders Use AI Advancing Claude for Financial Services (Claude for Excel announcement) Anthropic
  22. Video · How Founders Use AI Getting started with Claude in Excel Claude (Anthropic)
  23. Video · How Founders Use AI How to Use Claude for Excel (Step-by-Step Tutorial) Kevin Stratvert
  24. Video · How Founders Use AI NEW Claude in Excel: How Good Is It? Kenji Explains

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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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