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Oliver Buchannon
George Pu

Business

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The Tale of Two AI Worlds

Feb 19, 2026

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17 min read

The Tale of Two AI Worlds

OpenAI's $100B round. Anthropic's $30B raise. $250M in Super Bowl ads. And your rent is up 36%.

George Pu
George Pu

Business

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We're in survival mode (and we're not broke)

Feb 12, 2026

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7 min read

We're in survival mode (and we're not broke)

I have 2 years of runway. I've never been more scared.

George Pu
George Pu

Business

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SaaS Is Dead. The Market Just Priced It In

Feb 5, 2026

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13 min read

SaaS Is Dead. The Market Just Priced It In

$300 billion vanished in a day. Here's what to do about it.

George Pu
George Pu

Business

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They're not laying you off. They're swapping you

Jan 29, 2026

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15 min read

They're not laying you off. They're swapping you

46,000 jobs. One day. The receipts.

George Pu
George Pu

Business

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I killed my first business last week

Jan 22, 2026

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9 min read

I killed my first business last week

Five years to build. Four days to let go.

George Pu
George Pu

Life Reflections

Am I the QA Now?

Jan 15, 2026

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6 min read

Am I the QA Now?

Everyone says coding is dead. I just signed up for Frontend Masters.

George Pu
George Pu

Life Reflections

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The Room Where Irrelevance Feels Intelligent

Dec 18, 2025

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4 min read

The Room Where Irrelevance Feels Intelligent

A monk, a slur, and the thing I keep catching myself doing

George Pu
George Pu

Startups

I Just Watched a Smart Founder Make a $200K Mistake

Dec 12, 2025

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9 min read

I Just Watched a Smart Founder Make a $200K Mistake

50/50 odds became 10/90.

George Pu
George Pu

Business

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The Real Cost of Building at Full Speed (It's Not What You Think)

Dec 4, 2025

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11 min read

The Real Cost of Building at Full Speed (It's Not What You Think)

What Freedom Actually Costs in 2025

George Pu
George Pu

Life Reflections

Why Everything Feels Harder (And What To Do About It)

Nov 26, 2025

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11 min read

Why Everything Feels Harder (And What To Do About It)

The math changed. Here's the data.

George Pu
George Pu

Business

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Start-Up Survival 2025: How I Saved $100K/Year Defying Silicon Valley Norms

Nov 20, 2025

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11 min read

Start-Up Survival 2025: How I Saved $100K/Year Defying Silicon Valley Norms

Why I left the 'Big Tech' playbook behind, and the new rules for 2025.

George Pu
George Pu

Business

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I Just Published 350 Pages Nobody Told Me to Write

Oct 24, 2025

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9 min read

I Just Published 350 Pages Nobody Told Me to Write

Only 0.05% of startups raise VC. 75% of those fail. Here's the path for everyone else.

George Pu
George Pu

Business

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The 8AM text that saved my company (+ why the AI gap becomes permanent)

Oct 17, 2025

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11 min read

The 8AM text that saved my company (+ why the AI gap becomes permanent)

I was scheduling shutdown emails when a customer text changed everything. Here's the framework that separated burnout from business failure.

George Pu
George Pu

Business

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The Sunday Night Test: Why I walked away from $3M (and you should trust your gut too)

Oct 10, 2025

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9 min read

The Sunday Night Test: Why I walked away from $3M (and you should trust your gut too)

Why that chest-heavy feeling saved me $3M

George Pu
George Pu

Business

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$300K burned: Why I stopped following Y Combinator advice

Oct 3, 2025

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6 min read

$300K burned: Why I stopped following Y Combinator advice

I burned $300K following Y Combinator's advice. Then I discovered the consulting-first model and hit $10K/month in 90 days. Here's the complete playbook.

George Pu
George Pu

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