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Oliver Buchannon
Founders Pack

We interview Unicorn Startup Founders Before they Raise. Our readers learn from founders and investors in Y Combinator, Techstars, Hustle Fund and similar companies how to: ✅ Pitch Investors ✅ Find their first customers ✅ Scale Thru Community + Partnerships

Perfectly Wants to Replace Your Recruiting Team With a Sleepless Robot named Paul

May 28, 2026

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3 min read

Perfectly Wants to Replace Your Recruiting Team With a Sleepless Robot named Paul

YC Winter 2026’s AI-native recruiting OS promises candidates in Slack, fast—if you can stomach the automation.

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Founders Pack
Voxel Energy Is Trying to Drag the AI Data Center Off the Grid

May 26, 2026

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5 min read

Voxel Energy Is Trying to Drag the AI Data Center Off the Grid

YC W26's Voxel Energy wants to build AI data centers where the power is born on-site: solar fields, second-life EV batteries, and a DC-native architecture aimed at turning five-year grid waits into months.

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Founders Pack
Codex + Beehiiv MCP = Wolfbot Activated

May 23, 2026

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2 min read

Codex + Beehiiv MCP = Wolfbot Activated

MCP is the quiet bridge between your content, subscribers, metrics, and the agents that can help you grow.

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Founders Pack
Swarms of Agents are the new Black

Feb 11, 2026

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4 min read

Swarms of Agents are the new Black

As the AI Coding Drops keep coming we're adding "Swarms of Agents" to Claude Code

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Founders Pack
I'm Still Recovering from Clawdbot's betrayal

Feb 5, 2026

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8 min read

I'm Still Recovering from Clawdbot's betrayal

I connected my new Clawdbot aka Moltbot aka OpenClaw a.k.a. "Valet" to my LinkedIn. Then all hell broke loose.

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Founders Pack
Who Needs a Broken Immigration System When AI Can "Fix" It Overnight with a Brute Force Attack?

Dec 15, 2025

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6 min read

Who Needs a Broken Immigration System When AI Can "Fix" It Overnight with a Brute Force Attack?

YC Backed Legal OS (W26) is here to save you.

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Founders Pack
Two YC Startups are already in for W26

Nov 19, 2025

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6 min read

Two YC Startups are already in for W26

The Robots just keep coming. Yee Haw Cowbots

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Founders Pack
☕🧸 How I Turned a $29.95 Starbucks Cup Into a $600 Masterclass in Scarcity, Leadership, and Capitalism

Nov 7, 2025

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2 min read

☕🧸 How I Turned a $29.95 Starbucks Cup Into a $600 Masterclass in Scarcity, Leadership, and Capitalism

Starbucks just gave new meaning to the phrase “bear market.”

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Founders Pack
Crisis Management 101: We Hired Gwyneth Paltrow’s Dog Walker

Jul 28, 2025

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5 min read

Crisis Management 101: We Hired Gwyneth Paltrow’s Dog Walker

We are Taking queues from Astronomer who hired [Gwenyth Paltrow] to fix their image

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Founders Pack
Startup Idea... Diners! Only with EV Chargers

Jul 23, 2025

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3 min read

Startup Idea... Diners! Only with EV Chargers

And Lil Nas, they have to have Lil Nas

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Founders Pack
WOLFCAST Y Combinator FILE #213 – BOND: “DONNA, LOAD THE REVOLUTION”

Jun 10, 2025

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8 min read

WOLFCAST Y Combinator FILE #213 – BOND: “DONNA, LOAD THE REVOLUTION”

Its Demo Day today and Donna the AI Chief of Staff will be on full display with 143 other companies graduating Y Combinator

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Founders Pack
I Found God in a Browser Tab and He Told Me to Start a B2B A.I. Startup

Jun 9, 2025

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8 min read

I Found God in a Browser Tab and He Told Me to Start a B2B A.I. Startup

IdeaBrowser and the Cult of Done For You A.I. Startup Ideas

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Founders Pack
FullStack AI Company

Jun 5, 2025

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7 min read

FullStack AI Company

Y Combinator turned on a beacon for "Full Stack AI Companies" - What is this?

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Founders Pack
Come Party with Valet @ NY Tech Week 🕺🍸

May 29, 2025

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2 min read

Come Party with Valet @ NY Tech Week 🕺🍸

An AI launch party you’ll actually want to go to

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Founders Pack
Startup Idea: Lets Clone Some Dire Wolves

Apr 8, 2025

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8 min read

Startup Idea: Lets Clone Some Dire Wolves

Fear and Loathing in the Gene Lab: Colossal Biosciences Unleashes the Dire Wolf Reborn

Founders Pack
Founders Pack
Linkd: A Controlled Explosion of Human Serendipity

Mar 28, 2025

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6 min read

Linkd: A Controlled Explosion of Human Serendipity

Y Combinator X25 Startup built to uncover opportunities hidden within shared experiences

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Founders Pack
Smart Glasses Uprising in YC W25

Mar 21, 2025

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6 min read

Smart Glasses Uprising in YC W25

Mentra founders building the open-source Smart Glasses Operating System

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Founders Pack
Reach For Your Artificial Crystal Ball

Mar 14, 2025

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6 min read

Reach For Your Artificial Crystal Ball

YC W25 startup Artificial Societies can simulate the virality of your LinkedIn posts, wether you will reach Product Market Fit or how VCs will react to your pitch deck. Using witchcraft or ... something like it. OK it's just A.I. a lot of A.I.

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Founders Pack
Outreach Armageddon: A Year of Hell in B2B Sales

Mar 13, 2025

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9 min read

Outreach Armageddon: A Year of Hell in B2B Sales

Google and Outlook Bulk Sender Rules, Robot SDRs and now LinkedIn bans Apollo and Seamless. What Hell Hath we fallen into.

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Founders Pack
Leave it to Manus: The Unholy Marriage of AI and Action

Mar 10, 2025

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8 min read

Leave it to Manus: The Unholy Marriage of AI and Action

Another China backed AI is claiming to eat everyones lunch including yours.

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Founders Pack
Fear and Loathing in the Fields

Feb 20, 2025

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8 min read

Fear and Loathing in the Fields

YC (W25) Red Barn Robotics aims to be the Roomba for Farms with “The Field Hand"

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Founders Pack
The AI Beast That Hunts McKinsey

Feb 7, 2025

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5 min read

The AI Beast That Hunts McKinsey

Operand (YC W25) wants to put an end to McKinsey

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Founders Pack
The Madmen Who Took on Salesforce and Lived to Tell the Tale

Jan 30, 2025

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9 min read

The Madmen Who Took on Salesforce and Lived to Tell the Tale

Inside Attio’s Rebellion Against CRM Tyranny by A.I. Mirror-Universe Hunter S. Thompson

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Founders Pack
Is DeepSeek a Dirty Liar?

Jan 28, 2025

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10 min read

Is DeepSeek a Dirty Liar?

Lets think before we install Skynet on our Apple Macbook M2s

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Founders Pack
The Voice-First Odyssey: Riding the A.I. Wave with Jo, Your Proactive Companion

Jan 27, 2025

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9 min read

The Voice-First Odyssey: Riding the A.I. Wave with Jo, Your Proactive Companion

Is jo, H.E.R.? Y Combinator W24 Startup Jo is not J.A.R.V.I.S. or H.E.R. ... yet

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Founders Pack
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