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Upstarts Year One: The Ones Worth Keeping34
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Flexport's Ryan Petersen On Tariff Refunds, AI Agents And How To Win Back Customers

“You have to remember that no one cares about your startup. I’m blessed that you’re asking me questions about my startup, and you seem to be interested in it, but in general, nobody cares about your startup. They care about things that are happening that are relevant in their world, and they’re only going to care about you to the extent that you are either providing perspective on that other thing, or are a good example of the thing.

— Ryan Petersen, Flexport
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Designer VCs At Character Capital Raise $52 Million Fund

"There’s nothing more “agonizing” than laboring on a product nobody wants. It’s a tool for isolating and crystallizing your intuition about your business. It’s elementary stuff, but time and again since we started doing this, it’s proven remarkably useful, even for very sophisticated founders.”

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More Bangers, More Fun: 6 Upstarts Media Resolutions For 2026

But whether you’re sized more like a small business or an AI unicorn, the emotional rollercoaster of being a founder is probably the same. At Upstarts, I vacillate daily between the exuberance of empire-building, and questioning what it means to really exist.

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IPO Interview: Klarna's CEO Talks IKEA, Vibe Coding With Cursor, Stablecoins

“People ask me about the IPO and ringing the bell. I’m sure all of that’s going to be really cool and a fantastic experience. But for me personally, emotionally, after being this kid from this small city north of Stockholm, to actually stand in Bentonville at Sam Walton’s grave — and to realize that I will now have the opportunity to work with the biggest retailer in the world, that I’ve always been the biggest fan of — that to me is emotional on a different level.”

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Decision-making is an under appreciated skill for founders. There's so much chatter about how to build, how to launch, how to sell, how to test… All of these activities generate information, but there are few tools for using what you learn to make good decisions about what to do next. Which is crazy, because that's the whole point of a startup! Do something, learn something, adjust and repeat. We have created two powerful tools for decision making: Note-and-Vote and Magic Lenses. These are straightforward methods for making good, opinionated, fast decisions alone or with a team. We have used them hundreds of times with startups and for our own internal decisions at Character Capital. They are based on our observations from work with 300+ teams, and on behavioral research about decision-making.

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