This week’s Founder Finds includes:
🔍 An AI SEO report
🦉 How to thrive as a night owl
💻 A performance optimizer skill
💼 The state of AI in knowledge work
🧠 65+ mental models for startup success
➡️ And more…
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🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🔍 Ahrefs AI Search Benchmark Report shared by Shivam
A report showing how traditional SEO assumptions are breaking
💻 Codex Complexity Optimizer Skill shared by Alper Tunga
A Codex skill that finds complexity hotspots in your codebase
💼 The Next Era of Knowledge Work shared by Elia Zane
A report on how AI is redefining knowledge work
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
♻️ Dru Riley published Turning Failure Into Success: 7,000 Subs, Zero Sales, on profiting from a failed launch
🧰 Mike Williams wrote about building marketplaces with AI
📩 Elie Steinbock launched Inbox Zero in the AWS Marketplace
🤖 Alexandre Kantjas wrote about Claude Cowork
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What Are the 65+ Mental Models That Drive Every Successful Startup?
This founder failed 3 times before building a $200,000,000 company. He collected 65+ mental models as the laws that determine why businesses win or fail.
- Find the desire. People don’t want your product. They want the outcome it creates. Evidence of desire lives in behavior, not in what people say they want.
- Understand what kills your moat. Switching costs determine valuation. Network effects compound them. Market leaders almost always get disrupted by someone who wasn’t even a competitor.
- Apply the laws of human behavior. Every pricing strategy, hiring decision and marketing move works or fails because of evolutionary instincts baked into the people.
🛠️ Tools of the Week
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💵 StockDrifts — Visual stock research that builds conviction fast
✍️ Biography of the Week
Satoshi Nakamoto: Absent Authority
Satoshi Nakamoto built money that could run without personal trust, then protected it by becoming impossible to find.
This biography traces the technical record, the political timing and the deliberate disappearance of the most consequential anonymous person in financial history.
Listen to the episode (21 min) →
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How Can You Thrive as a Night Owl?
Do you feel energized, enjoy working or studying at night?
You’re a night owl!
Here’s how to thrive during the day as a night owl:
- Make a list of tasks the night before. Prepare for the day.
- Do things that force you to move in the morning. Walk or exercise.
- Do things that don’t need a lot of energy. Check emails, run errands.
Use your peak performance time wisely. Work or spend time with your family.
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