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Carina Hong and her team at Axiom just formalized the largest human math proof. After her Stanford ETL talk, we asked her about co-founder disagreements and how she decides what to work on.

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"Every debate that we get into in a conference room, in a board room, is a bet on what people might do." Michael Bernstein, co-founder of Simile and Stanford CS professor, on simulating human behavior, after his Stanford ETL talk.

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"Instead of 'Hey agent, make this thing for me,' you say 'Agent, teach me how to make this thing, and be rigorous.'" Eric Ries on AI and learning, after his Stanford ETL talk.

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At GOALIE we met new Stanford grad students from statistics, engineering and the GSB. Stanford Founders' Club runs hackathons, demo days and co-founder mixers. Open to every Stanford student.

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"You almost never want to actually build what they tell you." Adam Nash, CEO of Daffy, on customer feedback after his Stanford ETL talk.

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"Everything great, everything big, everything important, all began as something simple." Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup and Incorruptible, after his Stanford ETL talk.

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Today 4:30pm, Nvidia Auditorium: Michael Bernstein at STVP's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series. Free to attend. We'll be there afterwards, as every Wednesday.

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Thanks for reading! What’s the “heat” in the thing you’re building right now? Tell us more about it in the replies!

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Every week, Stanford’s ETL seminar brings in entrepreneurs to share the secrets and setbacks behind their success. This quarter, we're interviewing them and sharing our learnings!

First up: @adamnash, CEO & co-founder of @DaffyGiving. Here are 5 lessons from the talk ⬇️

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Daffy charges a membership instead, around $3 a month for most people, so that the company does well when people give more, and he said that, admittedly on small numbers, Daffy is at over 170% net revenue retention.

He built a platform where the giving keeps paying for itself.