Major email providers like Gmail intentionally make it difficult for automated systems to use their products to prevent spam, creating a market opportunity for agent-native email providers.

Y Combinator-backed company Agent Mail creates email inboxes specifically designed for use by AI agents.

AI agents may choose older tools like Whisper over superior ones like Grok because Grok's documentation is more difficult for an agent to parse.

The documentation for the email service Resend is powered by the company Minlify.

Major LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude recommend using Resend as the default solution for connecting a web application to send emails.

The documentation for SendGrid is poorly suited for AI agents because it directs users to customer support instead of providing direct code snippets.

Minlify is experiencing a major business tailwind because developer tool documentation must now be optimized for discovery and use by AI agents.

Agent Mail, an email provider for AI agents, experienced explosive growth after the tool OpenClaw became popular.

Over a year ago, ChatGPT was one of the top three customer acquisition channels for the email API company Resend.

DoorDash's contrarian strategy was to build a pure software marketplace for food delivery, rejecting the popular "full stack" playbook of the time (circa 2014) where competitors like SpoonRocket and S...

The environment for founding AI startups has become more competitive, as many verticals like insurance and banking now have multiple startups, and there has not been a major, market-shaking AI model r...

The most successful companies to emerge from the mobile era, such as Uber, DoorDash, and Instacart, were based on non-obvious ideas that were not widely predicted when the iPhone launched.

Approximately one year ago, it was easier for venture capitalists to fund AI companies that were still searching for an idea due to the novelty of AI and the abundance of untapped verticals.

OpenAI's practice of crawling the entire web for training data is considered to be in a legal gray area, with arguments for it being either fair use or massive copyright theft.

Elon Musk's idea to build reusable rockets for SpaceX was considered "blasphemous" and impossible by many rocket scientists at the time.

Bob McGrew, one of the originators of the forward-deployed engineer model at Palantir, is reportedly skeptical of its current overuse and believes it should be applied sparingly.

The early Bitcoin market participants were reportedly enraged by Coinbase's approach of implementing KYC procedures and collaborating with traditional financial institutions.

Upon its launch, OpenAI received mostly negative press and faced extreme skepticism from the established AI research community, who doubted that a young team could achieve AGI.

DoorDash entered the food delivery market when it was already crowded with established players like Postmates, Grubhub, and Seamless.

Despite Google's established brand and user base, OpenAI's ChatGPT has more daily consumer users than Google's Gemini.