Kraken's co-CEO arrangement as it approaches an IPO, alongside the Ethereum Foundation's recent turmoil, underscores a broader startup movement to prevent co-founder relationships from imploding through shared leadership.
Startups · Founder Profiles
Repeat founders raise money faster, exit higher, and get the benefit of every doubt, but new Crunchbase data reveals who the system shuts out amid record AI funding.
Startups · Governance
Crypto exchange Kraken spent two years building a co-CEO leadership structure designed to prevent the kind of founder conflict that recently landed OpenAI in court, offering a roadmap for other startups.
From the steroid-soaked spectacle of the Enhanced Games to an AI tribunal for billionaires, this breed of serial entrepreneur treats every startup as a warm-up, with the Las Vegas event just closing its books as its founders already left.
Startups · Founder Profiles
After scaling micromobility unicorn Voi, Fredrik Hjelm and co-founders launch Pit, an AI-native enterprise platform securing $16M from Andreessen Horowitz, illustrating the venture premium on repeat founders.
From a photographer's kitchen in Antarctica to a San Francisco startup office, the real startup culture experiment isn't about where people sit but who gets to decide when and where they work.
Startups · Operating Cadence
Operating cadence, from weekly standups to quarterly board decks and unspoken agreements, keeps small teams of 10 to 60 aligned even when founders stop showing up.
Startups · Operating Cadence
Keel’s radical operating cadence of a single weekly 45-minute all-hands meeting cut churn over 18 months, but the resulting quiet now reveals fissures in team alignment.
Feature · 9,800 words
In the kitchen of a flat in Camden, on a Sunday morning in October 2024, a founder told her co-founder she was leaving. Eighteen months later she was back, and the company had launched the product the original disagreement was about.