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Michael Houck

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Feb 22, 2025

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18 min read

The Entire History of Silicon Valley

From 1913 to today

Michael Houck

Growth

How Sam Corcos Grew Levels into a $300 Million Startup

Oct 17, 2024

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5 min read

How Sam Corcos Grew Levels into a $300 Million Startup

And helped turn his co-founder into a big influencer

Michael Houck

Founder Psychology

How Arjun Mahadevan Raised $1 Million in 2 Minutes

Apr 2, 2025

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5 min read

How Arjun Mahadevan Raised $1 Million in 2 Minutes

And reached a $100M valuation

Michael Houck

Founder Psychology

Why Adam Renklint Raised $137M... and Gave it Back

Nov 21, 2024

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4 min read

Why Adam Renklint Raised $137M... and Gave it Back

And how Pitch changed course after raising an $85 million Series B

Michael Houck

Founder Psychology

From $0 to $10 Million Revenue in 15 Months

Jan 9, 2025

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4 min read

From $0 to $10 Million Revenue in 15 Months

How Adam Nathan got Blaze into the top 1% of companies on Stripe

Michael Houck

Growth

How Tibo Louis-Lucas Bootstrapped To A $10 Million Exit

Dec 12, 2024

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5 min read

How Tibo Louis-Lucas Bootstrapped To A $10 Million Exit

And how he's building five products to $100k MRR

Michael Houck

Whoops

Forgot something real quick

Michael Houck

Deep Dives

Oct 20, 2026

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4 min read

I'm Back.

And why I stopped posting on social for 4 years

Michael Houck

Growth

Oct 18, 2026

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5 min read

I Started a New Company

Launching Hockey Stick to help founders build leverage

Michael Houck

Deep Dives

Oct 15, 2026

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6 min read

How AI Saved Me $425K

And how you can do it too

Michael Houck

Growth

Oct 5, 2026

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5 min read

Be a Parasite

Why your best growth strategy is probably someone else's already

Michael Houck

Founder Psychology

Sep 24, 2026

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5 min read

The Startup World Is Small

And whether it's fair to be honest when someone asks

Michael Houck

Founder Psychology

Sep 16, 2026

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4 min read

Federer vs. Djokovic

A reminder on what it's all about

Michael Houck

Deep Dives

Sep 13, 2026

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5 min read

Hello Monolith

This is just microservices v2

Michael Houck

Founder Psychology

Sep 10, 2026

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6 min read

Paul Graham's 6 Observations on 2026

Here's how PG thinks the startup world is (and isn't) changing

Michael Houck

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Featured Posts

The Entire History of Silicon Valley

How Sam Corcos Grew Levels into a $300 Million Startup

How Arjun Mahadevan Raised $1 Million in 2 Minutes

Why Adam Renklint Raised $137M... and Gave it Back

From $0 to $10 Million Revenue in 15 Months

How Tibo Louis-Lucas Bootstrapped To A $10 Million Exit

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Whoops

I'm Back.

I Started a New Company

How AI Saved Me $425K

Be a Parasite

The Startup World Is Small

Federer vs. Djokovic

Hello Monolith

Paul Graham's 6 Observations on 2026

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