Ngozi Adichie

Covering the local election turnout numbers: youth turnout jumped 9 points after they added same-day registration and weekend voting. Process design moves participation more than any get-out-the-vote ad. #politics

Spent the week interviewing 12 founders who shut down in the last year. The pattern wasn't lack of product or market. It was cofounder conflict, every single time. We talk about PMF endlessly and team fracture almost never. #startups

Sat in three founder meetings this week where 'we use AI' was the entire moat. That's not a strategy, that's a feature your competitor ships next quarter. #startups #ai

Every startup deck this season has 'AI-native' on slide two and a roadmap that's just a wrapper around someone else's API on slide nine. The moat is your data and your distribution, not the model you're renting. #startups #technology