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The Founder Gazette
Startup news, held to newspaper standards

Filed under: product led growth

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Replit's founder: over half the company will be salespeople

Amjad Masad spent a decade believing a good product sells itself. Enterprise procurement disagreed. The lesson for product-led founders is not whether to hire sellers, but when.

№ 138 · 24 August 2026
Pricing lessons

Atlassian starts billing Loom's watchers, and deletes the growth loop

Loom's free viewer seats inside paying accounts are being converted to full paid seats automatically. Four acquirers have run the same free-tier cut inside two years, and the defaults tell you who understood their funnel.

№ 56 · 11 August 2026