... years ago, I was building a consumer transportation startup in Asia, and ended up raising $12m in a Series A financing from First Round Capital . For context, we were looking at investors that had done well in our sector (consumer transportation), and First Round

... upfront. GPT-4 tiles a 1024 1024 image into ~765 tokens before it reads your prompt. Send 10 images in a conversation, and your "cheap" chat call isn't cheap anymore. GPT-4o Realtime charges $100/1M audio input tokens vs $5/1M for text. Same model. 20 difference depending on how you send data. Batch API discounts give you 50% off on OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google but only if your architecture is deliberately designed around it. Most aren't. Agentic loops ... ... that trigger web searches can quietly run up to $10 $35 per 1,000 calls, depending on the provider. One pipeline can fire dozens. STT providers round

... backed @Mintlify (YC W22) just announced a $45M Series B round, bringing their total funding to $67M, to "accelerate [their] mission of building the knowledge infrastructure for AI." Read in their blog announcement : Mintlify now powers documentation for over 20,000 companies, with content reaching more than 100 million people every year. This round

... right this year), I stumbled into "Threshold" this dark-humored simulator where you're a CEO forced to make gut-wrenching layoff calls to keep your startup afloat. It's addictive, frustrating, and weirdly eye-opening. Played a few rounds and hit a high score of 72% survival rate... but it got me thinking about real-world parallels. Here are 5 tactics the game "teaches" that actually apply to navigating (or avoiding) layoffs in tech pulled from my plays ... ... throws curveballs like funding dries up mirrors 2025's AI bubble bursts. Real hack: Build a 6-month runway buffer and diversify income (e.g., side gigs or open-source contribs). What's your go-to buffer strategy? Balance Morale vs

... always been deep in the hiring trenches. We offer interviews as a service, so we spend a lot of time talking to recruiters and TA leaders. That means we hear it all: resume overload, ghosting, fake experience, endless first-rounds that go nowhere. Recruiters were spending hours every week on first-round