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Two of Cal AI's founders were in high school, and one founder's mom had to co-sign the bank account. The team reached a reported $50M ARR and sold to MyFitnessPal. Founders keep asking COO Jake Castillo how to build a team like it. His answer: they got extremely lucky.
Profound, now valued at $1.8 billion, measures how AI engines see a company. Its own crawler test found bots could not see the plans on its pricing page; the fix shipped on 25 June. HubSpot hit the same wall. What both did about it, and what Profound's page shows a bot today.
Sunday night, Amazon told Meta's Muse agent that unauthorised agents violate its Conditions of Use. Monday, Shopify wired Shop Pay into Muse. Amazon made over $68 billion in ad revenue last year, a business that depends on browsing. Shopify's merchants need to be found.
Liz Wilcox charges $9 a month for newsletter templates. About 4,400 people pay it, churn runs around 5%, and in April 2026 she bought Smart Passive Income. Her original target was 1,000 members in two years. The mechanism is a price nobody re-decides and customers who do the selling.
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