A 3-person startup just used AI to ship a product that took your team of 50 engineers two years to build. It launched last Tuesday. Walk into the office on Monday morning - what do you do?
This isn't a crisis - it's a character test, and the 3-person startup just did you a favor by administering it for free.
The Airbnb pitch came to Y Combinator in 2009. Three guys wanting strangers to sleep on air mattresses in their apartments. On paper, it was absurd - dangerous, weird, tiny market, unscalable. The technical partners grilled them about unit ...