From the Startup Battlefield stage to the International Space Station: geCKo Materials built a sticky product
This week on Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen speaks with Capella Kerst, founder and CEO of geCKo Materials.
The Woman Rewriting the Rules of Aesthetics: Inside Denise Dajles’ Bold Bet With Cytrellis
Cytrellis CEO Denise Dajles is scaling ellacor, a non-surgical skin-removal device using Micro-Coring Technology, to meet rising demand from patients with skin laxity after major weight loss.
Slash, a Ramp competitor founded by teenagers, raises $100M at $1.4B valuation
Five years later the founders, now 24 years old, say their startup has achieved $300 million in annualized revenue.
Companies Are Hitting a Wall With AI — And Outdated Systems Are to Blame
AI is accelerating work across every department, but without alignment and clear standards, most companies are scaling inefficiencies instead of real progress.
OpenAI takes aim at Anthropic with beefed-up Codex that gives it more power over your desktop
OpenAI’s agentic coding tool has gotten a major makeover, with a variety of new powers and abilities.
European police email 75,000 people asking them to stop DDoS attacks
Europol coordinated an operation against for-hire distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) services, including the arrest of four people and the takedown of 53 domains.
Everyone Can Build a Product Now — the Real Advantage Is Getting People to Care About Yours. Here’s How.
The barrier to building a product has collapsed. The new bottleneck — the one most founders discover too late — is distribution.
The CEO of a $19.9 Billion Startup Says Businesses Are In Danger of Being Replaced By Vibe Coding — But This One App Is ‘Quite Safe’
Firms without quality software are most likely to be replaced, according to the PayPal cofounder.
Anthropic CPO leaves Figma’s board after reports he will offer a competing product
A herald of the SAASpocalypse?
It’s not just you — Bluesky is (sorta) down
Bluesky has been experiencing ongoing service disruptions since just before 3 a.m. ET.
Everything we like is a psyop
If culture is shaped by TikTok’s algorithmic feed, then it’s time for us to decide where we draw the line between necessary marketing and inauthentic growth hacking.