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A stealth startup is a company that operates in "stealth mode" i.e actively hiding its activities. Coda, Instabase, Clinkle, Theranos were all stealth once - with various degrees of success. Is stealth a smart move or a smokescreen? In this article, we break down the pros and cons of stealth mode for tech founders.

An interview with Emmanuel Henry-Ajudua and Justin Goolcharan, co-founders of Medical Student AI, on building for a problem they live every day, turning investor rejections into a product roadmap, and why a $30K check from the right person was worth more than $10 million from the wrong one.

An interview with Dax Hamman, co-founder of FOMO.ai, on raising entirely through SAFE notes, why getting fast rejections is a strategy, and the concept of building gravitational pull around your company.

An interview with Kai Micah Mills, founder of Cryopets, on building the only whole-organism cryopreservation protocol in the world, why raising $1.5M was harder than his previous $10M raise, and the investment committee that kills every good deal.

An interview with Nick Callegari, founder of Verustruct , on the realities of raising a pre-seed round: the slow start, the tactical pivots, and the single warm intro that changed everything.