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Day Zero: Always Learning

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AI Partner @ Elevation Capital. 2X Founder and Operator. Always Learning. Musings about entrepreneurship, AI, and the rest of the world. Click to read Day Zero: Always Learning, by Krishna Mehra, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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2025 4

  1. The Power Law, Explained by a K-Pop Girl Group and a Bad Deal
  2. Why Parker Conrad’s Contrarian Playbook on SaaS & AI Is a Blueprint for Repeat Founder Success
  3. Rise of the Full-Stack Builder: Adapt or Perish
  4. AI is Breaking the Startup Playbook—Why Founders & VCs Are Freaking Out 😱

2024 7

  1. The Software Rebel: How Innovaccer Defied Silicon Valley's Anti-Services Doctrine and Won
  2. Fishing for AI Ideas: A Guide to the Modern (Artificial) Fishery
  3. Latest from AI Roller Coaster: Disruptive Nausea
  4. Thriving Through Platform Shifts
  5. 🦅 The Eagle and the Toad: A Playbook for Onboarding Senior Hires 🐸
  6. Your ACV controls your destiny more than you think
  7. Execution Speed vs Tech Debt: a Balancing Act?

2022 6

  1. Brooks Running: The power of focus
  2. How Amazon provides Business Support (AWS)
  3. CommentSold - $1.6Bn in GMV through Live Selling
  4. HubSpot - An Integrated Marketing Platform
  5. Twilio's Segment - A Customer Data Platform
  6. Mailchimp - a $12Bn worth of simple emails

2021 4

  1. The Wright brothers: The O.G. startup founders?
  2. Trust in Distributed Teams
  3. Building Customer Empathy in Engineering Teams
  4. Decision Quality and Picking Stocks

2020 17

  1. Do you want to build a Snowflake?
  2. How to fail as a leader?
  3. Product-market fit for a B2B company
  4. Why Silicon Valley being expensive maybe a competitive advantage
  5. Should you Hack or Pick?
  6. Segment's $3.2Bn Origin Story
  7. Need coaching, mentoring... or sponsorship?
  8. Does personal growth have to be a zero-sum game?
  9. Letting it $SNOW... and a failed YC Founder opens up
  10. 9/12/2020 - Saying YES in the Enterprise
  11. 9/5/2020 - Raining S-1s and Zooming through
  12. What is a SaaS Mindset?
  13. Leadership in the times of COVID-19
  14. The Largest Remote Work Experiment in History: Learnings from Taro
  15. A Tale of 3 Trillion $$$ Clouds
  16. What will happen in the 2020s
  17. A Look back at the 2010s