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When Machines Win the Game, Why Do People Keep Playing?

No Priors·Building a $200M Bootstrapped Chess Empire with Chess.com CEO Erik Allebest
2026-08-13

Chess.com's story does not begin with a machine defeating a human player. Erik Allebest recalls that he and a friend bought the chess.com domain in 2005 for $56,000.

Founders in an Accelerating AI Cycle: Ambition, Exits, and Compute

No Priors·Chasing Trillion-Dollar Companies, Founder Ambition, Token Budgets, & Regulatory Capture
2026-08-06

Sarah Guo and Elad Gil do not deny the size of AI markets. They distinguish a market becoming large from a single company reaching trillion-dollar scale quickly.

DoorDash's Next Competition Will Not Happen Inside the Model Alone

No Priors·Building an Autonomous Delivery Experience with DoorDash Co-Founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang
2026-07-23

Ask DoorDash and the delivery robot Dot look like separate product lines: one lets a customer describe what they want to buy, while the other moves an order through the physical world.