Best of Entrepreneurship — November 2025

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    Avatar of developingdevThe Developing Dev·25w

    Quitting Robinhood and Raising $35M for His Own Startup (Career Story)

    Jayendra Jog shares his journey from working at Facebook and Robinhood to founding Sei Labs, a crypto startup that raised $35 million. He discusses becoming disillusioned with corporate career ladders despite getting promoted, the GameStop trading saga from inside Robinhood, and why he believes engineers overestimate the risk of leaving stable jobs. Jog explains how high-growth environments accelerate learning, the fundraising process for crypto startups, and why he thinks the financial downside of starting a company is minimal for competent engineers who can always find work again.

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    Avatar of searlsJustin Searls·25w

    I'd do it all again

    A personal reflection on how a single piece of critical feedback about Japanese language skills triggered a cascade of decisions that transformed a hobby into a product, then into marketing content, ultimately contributing to founder burnout. The narrative traces the journey from learning Japanese through WaniKani, to building KameSame (a language learning app with 20,000+ users), to mining that experience for conference talks and marketing material, illustrating how creative passions can become entangled with business imperatives and lose their original purpose.

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    Avatar of t3dotggTheo - t3․gg·27w

    Chad IDE: like Cursor, but with brain rot

    A critical examination of Y Combinator's recent batch companies, particularly Chad IDE, exploring why rage-baiting and viral marketing strategies often fail as product strategies. The piece argues that building a social media following is largely ineffective for startup success, with data showing inverse correlation between follower count and company performance. Instead, strategic partnerships with established influencers and solving real problems deliver better results. The analysis includes case studies of Cluey's pivot from interview cheating tool to meeting assistant, demonstrating how companies can leverage controversy while ultimately focusing on product-market fit.

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