Move Slow and Fix Things(endler.dev)
54 points by ahmedhossamdev | 0 comments
Matthias Endler's essay arguing against VC-funded hustle culture and for small, bootstrapped, sustainable businesses, critiquing Paul Graham's startup advice.
#venture-capital on Hacker News
30 stories tagged venture-capital, newest first.
Put a price on breakthroughs(alexwang.ai)
16 points by ketothekingdom | 5 comments
Essay by Alex Wang arguing for pricing research breakthroughs so frontier AI labs, neolabs, and investors can all benefit.
Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B(typesafe.ai)
413 points by tosh | 332 comments
Company blog post from Typesafe AI announcing an $870M funding round at a $7.5B valuation.
Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation(techfundingnews.com)
319 points by dachworker | 297 comments
Tech Funding News article reporting that German industrial robotics startup RobCo has reached a $1 billion valuation, becoming Europe's newest robotics unicorn.
Bill Draper has died(nytimes.com)
131 points by bookofjoe | 39 comments
New York Times obituary of venture capitalist William (Bill) Draper; the captured page is a bot-detection block screen.
My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite(andrewkelley.me)
369 points by kristoff_it | 269 comments
Andrew Kelley, creator of Zig, writes a blog post reflecting on Bun's rewrite from Zig to Rust and Jarred Sumner's history with the Zig community.
Did my old job only exist because of fraud?(david.newgas.net)
776 points by advisedwang | 364 comments
A personal blog post by a software engineer reflecting on whether his job at startup GenieDB, taken over by Stuart Frost's Frost VP fund, existed only because of fraud.
OpenRouter raises $113M Series B(openrouter.ai)
431 points by freeCandy | 206 comments
OpenRouter's announcement of a $113M Series B round led by investors including CapitalG, Andreessen Horowitz, and Menlo Ventures.
GitHub's fake star economy(awesomeagents.ai)
729 points by Liriel | 354 comments
An Awesome Agents investigation into the market for fake GitHub stars, how VCs treat star counts as traction, and an analysis of 20 repos showing signs of manipulation.
Yann LeCun's AI startup raises $1B in Europe's largest ever seed round(ft.com)
396 points by ottomengis | 214 comments
Financial Times article reporting that Yann LeCun's AI start-up raised more than $1bn in Europe's largest seed funding round.
Oxide raises $200M Series C(oxide.computer)
565 points by igrunert | 299 comments
Oxide Computer Company blog post dated 5 Feb 2026 announcing its $200M Series C funding round.
Raising money fucked me up(blog.yakkomajuri.com)
342 points by yakkomajuri | 127 comments
Personal blog post by a founder who left Doublepoint to start a company, reflecting on how raising venture money affected him and his motivations.
Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole(ossa-ma.github.io)
509 points by ossa-ma | 159 comments
Blog post arguing Nvidia's $20B deal for Groq's assets and hiring of CEO Jonathan Ross exploits an antitrust loophole to avoid merger scrutiny.
Our $100M Series B(oxide.computer)
723 points by spatulon | 463 comments
Oxide Computer Company blog post announcing its $100 million Series B funding round, dated 30 July 2025.
A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn(mattgiustwilliamson.substack.com)
538 points by MattSWilliamson | 324 comments
A Substack essay arguing that startups don't need to aim for unicorn-scale valuations; the page failed to load and showed an error message.
Y Combinator often backs startups that duplicate other YC companies, data shows(techcrunch.com)
342 points by isaacfrond | 171 comments
TechCrunch article reporting data showing Y Combinator frequently funds startups that compete directly with other YC companies, beyond just AI code editors.
Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth(unfashionable.blog)
416 points by SvenSchnieders | 191 comments
Blog post on the Unfashionable blog arguing that Y Combinator has traded its prestige for growth by expanding batch sizes.
Do AI companies work?(benn.substack.com)
375 points by herbertl | 395 comments
A Substack essay by Benn Stancil questioning whether AI model companies have viable business models, subtitled "The market needs to be irrational for you to stay solvent."
Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B(reuters.com)
508 points by colesantiago | 625 comments
Reuters article on Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the AI startup co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, raising $1 billion; the page loaded a captcha instead.
Researcher finds flaw in a16z website that exposed some company data(kibty.town)
485 points by udev4096 | 189 comments
A security researcher's blog post describing how they found a flaw in a16z's portfolio.a16z.com site using subdomain scanning and browser inspect element.
Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity(stefantheard.com)
1631 points by mooreds | 764 comments
Blog post by Stefan Theard about founder liquidity, the practice of startup founders selling shares in secondary transactions during funding rounds.
VCs aren’t your friends(openvc.app)
441 points by taubek | 286 comments
OpenVC blog post by Stéphane Nasser arguing that founders should not treat venture capitalists as friends when fundraising.
Sell for half a billion and get nothing (2021)(fundablestartups.com)
337 points by BIackSwan | 268 comments
A Fundable Startups blog post on how founders can sell a company for half a billion dollars and receive nothing, due to deal terms like liquidation preferences.
Show HN: Startup funding simulator(fundingsimulator.com)
572 points by zikero | 146 comments
An open-source web tool that simulates startup fundraising with post-money SAFEs, priced rounds, option pools, and exits to show founder dilution.
The quiet death of Ello's big dreams(waxy.org)
455 points by waxpancake | 231 comments
Andy Baio's Waxy.org post from January 2024 on the decline and quiet shutdown of the ad-free social network Ello.
Why you shouldn't join Y Combinator(newsletter.smallbets.co)
443 points by georgehill | 229 comments
Daniel Vassallo's Small Bets newsletter post arguing that joining Y Combinator is a bad deal for founders despite being good for the economy.
Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Company(eidel.io)
505 points by olieidel | 287 comments
Oliver Eidel's blog post arguing that first-time founders misunderstand venture capital and that taking VC funding can harm their company.
We raised a bunch of money(fly.io)
566 points by charliermarsh | 413 comments
Fly.io blog post announcing it raised $25M from A16Z and existing investors, plus an additional $70M round led by EQT Ventures.
Killing Community(marginalia.nu)
495 points by dasil003 | 350 comments
A Marginalia weblog post arguing that venture-capital-funded social media inevitably degrades online communities, citing the 2023 Reddit controversy.
Is Y Combinator worth the money? Brutally honest review of W22 batch experience(acecreamu.substack.com)
748 points by acecreamu | 294 comments
A founder's personal review of going through Y Combinator's W22 batch with his AI e-commerce startup Suggestr, weighing whether the equity cost was worth it.