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Founder tips
Build or buy: TaskRabbit rebuilt, Midi Health refused
Two founders, two opposite infrastructure calls. Leah Solivan paid for a full platform rebuild at TaskRabbit. Joanna Strober decided Midi Health's best engineering decision was the one it never made.
№ 204 · 8 September 2026
AI costs
Six large firms cut AI bills by routing work to open models
Uber, Stripe, Coinbase and three others have dropped proprietary models for parts of their workload. The reported saving is around half.
№ 196 · 7 September 2026
Founder workflow
One founder, 15 Devin agents, $20,000 in a month
Ryan Carson runs his family law software company alone, with a fleet of cloud coding agents and a handwritten to-do list. Here is how the setup is organised and what it costs.
№ 153 · 27 August 2026