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OpenRouter went from a routing layer for AI models to a $7.5 billion Stripe acquisition in three years. The deal is also a live test of one of the oldest tensions in building an aggregator business.
In 1958, Bank of America launched its first credit card in a single city instead of the whole country. Andrew Chen's idea of the atomic network explains why that was the right call, and why founders and investors read the exact same growth chart so differently.
A venture fund runs on other people's money and a fixed ten-year deadline.
Facebook's former VP of Growth argues that most startups optimize the wrong side of the growth equation first. Here's what founders and investors should each take from his framework.
And Why Investors Should Want Them To?
