Growth, in a new era.
What is working in startup growth right now.
- GTM engineering
A title almost nobody used three years ago is now one of the most contested hires in B2B.
- Legora
The freedom to ask why any of it was done this way. Three years on, valued above $5.5 billion.
- Canva
Rejected for Perth, for pitching without a technical co-founder, for a market nobody could see. Valued at $42 billion in 2025.
- Defensibility
When the product stops being the hard part, how do you win in the market?
- Anthropic
The first profitable quarter arrived two years before investors were told to expect one.
- Platform shifts
Software got cheap enough to copy in a weekend. The device on the table did not.
- doola
A hundred dollars per referral brought in almost nobody. Fifty percent, uncapped, did.
- Capital
Most founders apply to the names they have heard of. This is who actually writes preseed and seed cheques.