YC batch overview (which is a good summary of early stage in general right now): -agent everything or “everythings agent” -barbell of round dynamics, either party round with angels and small feeler checks from big funds or the most outrageous round ever at seed (one co raised 20M on 100M post) -solo founders with revenue and no plans to hire more people even with more cash -companies are global from the start -founders are so young VCs couldnt plan happy hours bc no alcohol Shout out to the handful of “traditional b2b saas companies”, dont give up!

i had to laugh at our product meeting last week. while we were discussing ideas for a new startup, one of my partners was quietly building it on v0/bolt/replit etc right in front of us in real-time!! by the time we finished describing features of "what if", he had a working prototype on screen. suddenly we weren't just having another product meeting - we were debugging. im old enough to remember when every important meeting needed a notetaker. someone frantically typing, trying to capture every detail, missing the actual conversation happening in front of them. companies even hired dedicated notetakers - imagine that job description today lol. now the most valuable person in any product meeting isn't the notetaker - it's the prototyper. someone who can take an idea, throw it up on v0/bolt/replit in real-time, and get live feedback before the meeting ends. no more "imagine if we had..." conversations. instead, it's "look what happens when we..." you can do this with customer interviews too. ask customers what they want, and prototype and test in real-time. watch their eyes light up when they can touch the thing they just described. there's probably a startup idea in there ;) this is a big deal because feedback loops that used to take weeks now take minutes. what used to require countless meetings between design and engineering now happens live, in the room, while everyone's energy is high. meetings become workshops. ideas become experiments. decisions become data-driven. the gap between imagination and reality shrinks to minutes. this ain't your daddy's meeting. meetings used to create notes. now they create products.