The acceleration of rockets takes a propeller, and the acceleration of startups take the similar. There are two propellers: 1. Listen to the customer. 2. fast execution. How to achieve these two? Here is the answer from Suhail Doshi.
Sarah Guo's five stages of company building — Initial Product, PMF, GTM Scale, Org Building, Enduring Public Company — with notes on what matters at each stage, the failure mode that ends most companies there, and the signals you're ready to move on.
The investment memo transforms gut feelings into structured decision-making, articulating clear rationales for investment choices. It combines concepts, templates, and playbooks to enhance team alignment and efficiency, ensuring decisions are grounded in data rather than emotion.
I'm Tian Pan, an engineer-founder focused on agentic engineering — building autonomous AI systems and scaling engineering teams. I write practical guides on system design, technical leadership, and shipping with AI agents. Previously an early engineer at Uber, Brex, and IoTeX.
