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Ex-principal took hundreds of meetings to raise $63m
Adeel Khan had no Stanford degree, no Google badge and no business plan. He says he had to make MagicSchool AI's user numbers impossible to argue with instead.
№ 38 · 9 August 2026
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YC partners say one word gives away an AI-written application
Applications to Y Combinator have grown 60% longer in three years, and the word "wedge" now appears in more than a fifth of them. Two partners have said publicly what that tells them.
№ 33 · 9 August 2026