# Dalton Caldwell

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Save Your Startup During an Economic Downturn

Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel discuss Paul Graham's essay "Default Alive or Default Dead." They share strategies to cut your company's burn rate and keep your startup alive to see another day. Paul Graham's essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/aord.html Trevor Blackwell's startup growth calcu…

How To Deal With Setbacks

Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel discuss the best approaches to managing the many setbacks startup founders can face over the lifetime of starting and running a business. Apply to Y Combinator: https://yc.link/DandM-apply Work at a Startup: https://yc.link/DandM-jobs

Why You Should Leave Your FAANG Job

Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel discuss the struggles of working at FAANG (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) and how to strategize leaving a big tech job to become a founder at a startup. Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/ Work at a startup: https://www.ycombinato…

Building A $2 Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two Time Founder

Two-time founder Rujul Zaparde knows a thing or two about resilience and learning from failure. After dropping out of college to build FlightCar, he worked as a PM at Airbnb, and later as a visiting partner at YC. In 2020, he co-founded Zip, a procurement software company that has since raised $3…

A founder’s guide to crisis management | Uri Levine (Waze co-founder, serial entrepreneur)

Uri Levine is a co-founder of Waze (which was acquired by Google for $1.3 billion in 2013), along with nine other companies (including another company he sold for over $1 billion). He’s also been on 20 boards and has been an advisor to over 50 startups. He recently released a new chapter of his bes…

Inside Bolt: From near-death to ~$40m ARR in 5 months—one of the fastest-growing products in history | Eric Simons (founder and CEO of StackBlitz)

Eric Simons is the founder and CEO of StackBlitz, the company behind Bolt—the #1 web-based AI coding agent and one of the fastest-growing products in history. After nearly shutting down, StackBlitz launched Bolt on Twitter and exploded from zero to $40 million ARR and 1 million monthly active users…

Alex and Valence Get Funding

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Episode 56: AI Models, Apple's Siri, and Toy Industry AI

Brian recaps OpenAI's new O3 Pro model, Mistral's reasoning models, and Bytedance's SeedDance. Apple targets Spring 2026 for AI-powered Siri upgrades while Meta invests in superintelligence. Klarna's CEO relies on AI, and Disney faces an AI copyright lawsuit. Shopify rolls out stablecoin payments, …

From Pivot Hell to $1M ARR: The Magic Patterns Origin Story

What does it actually look like to pivot eight times in a single year? In this episode of Before It Clicked, Sunny Rekhi sits down with Alex Danilowicz, co-founder of Magic Patterns, an AI design tool that helps product teams skip Figma and go straight to working UI. Alex shares the raw, "dark day…

SF Compute: Commoditizing Compute to solve the GPU Bubble forever

We are calling for the world’s best AI Engineer talks for AI Architects, /r/localLlama, Model Context Protocol (MCP), GraphRAG, AI in Action, Evals, Agent Reliability, Reasoning and RL, Retrieval/Search/RecSys , Security, Infrastructure, Generative Media, AI Design & Novel AI UX, AI Product Managem…