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Figma is a startup valued at more than $2 billion dollars.
Co-founder and CEO Dylan Field is a Forbes 30 under 30 list alum.
This is a story about the messy reality of building a startup and the myth of overnight success.👇
Replit has bought one startup since 2020, @openintdev last September.
@trychroma is just its second acquisition in 6 years.
A selective buyer is not necessarily a closed door!
Meta acquired Sundial, Julie Zhuo's analytics platform. It is Meta's fifth startup purchase this year.
They have not bought this many startups in a year since 2021.
If Meta is the buyer you want, strike while the iron is hot.
Today, we're announcing that Sundial has been acquired by @Meta!
Chandra Narayanan and I are joining along with some other incredible members of our team.
Nearly six years ago, Chandra and I started Sundial with two core beliefs: 1) better decisions come from using data well, and 2) great things come from working on hard problems with people you like.
Sundial automated away many of the obstacles involved in getting to meaningful analysis (Cleaning data! Creating semantic layers! Writing SQL! Storytelling!), and we were proud to support some of the fastest-growing AI companies from OpenAI to Gamma.
We started before the AI wave and rebuilt ourselves to be AI-native. We raised our first round when interest rates were near zero, and our Series A when they were the highest in two decades. We watched customers hyperscale and then close shop, new grads grow into leaders, and software development change completely.
Entrepreneurship has been my dream since college, when I first took a class on start-ups (shoutout Mayfield Fellows!). I wish I'd been brave enough sooner because there’s no better way to learn how the world works and who you really are than betting on yourself to launch a business.
Meta is my former home and where I learned product and design. It's also one of the most analytically rigorous places on the planet. So many of Sundial's values came from there: questioning assumptions, diagnosing with data, owning the user’s experience. I'm thrilled to bring what we've learned to the place where it all started and continue our mission of improving the quality and velocity of business decisions with people we like.
To Team Sundial past and present, THANK YOU thank you thank you. You created that special feeling within our team, and I bask in the memories of having walked those lush miles and eaten those breakfast dosas with you.
To our investors and supporters especially @dpatil, David Fischer + the whole 01A advisors team, @mvernal, @sequoia: how did we get so lucky to have your counsel and support? And to my beloved @mikesego and kiddos: I could not have made it without you.
These have been some of the hardest, most humbling, and most alive years of my life. I hope I'm wiser for it and will have many chances to pay it forward!
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$0 for equity holders after 17 years building Foursquare.
In my research on 1,092 exited founders, only 157 posted about their acquisition. A tiny subset posted about a disappointing outcome. Kudos to Dennis.
Quit before the grind robs you of the time and energy to try again.
Foursquare was acquired last month. The outcome was disappointing. It's taken me a while to write this, but I think I'm finally done grieving it. Here are some thoughts on our final years, an effort to honor the team who helped build & maintain FSQ's legacy, and my attempt to finally get some closure. teendrama.substack.com/p/som…
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We are opening up a new role at Quora: a single engineer who will use AI to automate manual work across the company and increase employee productivity. I will work closely with this person.
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It's difficult to describe how fun and powerful vibe coding is.
The new Claude Sonnet and Gemini 2.5 have been a complete game changer.
I literally don't program anymore. The code the AI writes is extremely good. Features that would take weeks I can now do in days.
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Replit CEO @amasad says they cut headcount by nearly half... while revenue grew 10x.
"AI isn’t replacing engineers. It’s supercharging them."
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Optimizing AI agents requires writing down the valuable institutional knowledge in your company. Big co’s will struggle with this: middle managers worry about becoming replaceable and leaders worry about leaks. If they don’t do it, they’ll be crushed by competitors who do.
Builders treat *time saved* as their P&L.
Anything <10x ROI in minutes vs. manual work gets scrapped. Ruthless, but that’s how you bend the curve.





















