Today is fundraising announcement day. As is the nature of writing for a larger audience, it is a formal, safe announcement. As it should be. Writing must necessarily become impersonal at scale. But I would like to write something personal about why I am doing this. What is the goal of building exe.dev? I am already the co-founder of one startup that is doing very well, selling a product I love as much as when I first helped design and build it.
Purpose Ventures - Purpose
Conventional VC is often at odds with the ambitions of purpose-driven entrepreneurs and their founding values and missions. These founders are interested in more than growth for growth’s sake. They want to build lasting, impactful businesses and preserve their mission in the future.
Signaling theory in entrepreneurial fundraising and crowdfunding research
Researchers often employ signaling theory to explain the effect of entrepreneurial communication on fundraising success. This focus on signaling can lead researchers to overlook alternative explana...
Microsoft Build 2026: Be yourself at work - The Official Microsoft Blog
Platforms shift when developers build. We explore, choose tools, dream, create. This platform shift comes with more information than ever, ready at your fingertips. This shift, it’s about building fast AND THEN: it’s about building, operating, optimizing and observing. Securing your infrastructure, applications and agents in a seamless way that doesn’t slow you down from...
Founders Hub | Transform Finance
The founder playbook for building a company that lasts and stays true to why you started it. Research, case studies, and practical tools for incorporation, fundraising terms, board structure, ownership, and culture.
Aaron Boodman on Twitter / X
There is this tension in dev tooling right now: Lots of people want to self-host, and not depend on a service. Lots of people also want the vibes of open source - being part of an open development community, having the code, etc.But builders still need to make a living...— Aaron Boodman (@aboodman) January 23, 2024
Build the thing you wish to see in the world
For most of my career, I've been confusing building products with building businesses—and that confusion kept me from pursuing a lot of ideas. Two weeks off helped me realize that not everything needs to be a startup, and some of the best things we build are the ones we build just because we want them to exist.
Building what customers need, not just what they ask for - Linear
Notes from our product team on building the tools we use every day.
Software as Wiki, Mutable Software - exe.dev blog
When your coding agent lives next to your software, editing it is as easy as editing a wiki.
Botiquette - exe.dev blog
We have a lot of bots doing work at exe. Here's how they should behave.
Conversations for Action | and Collected Essays
Conversations For Action and Collected Essays is a compilation of the seminal works by Dr. Fernando Flores during his tenure as CEO and President of Logonet Inc., an educational and coaching organization, and Business Design Associates, the pioneer management consulting firm in implementing large scale innovation processes and programs. The book is a response to the requests from many former students and clients over the years for the “papers” with Flores’ distinct framework for building teams, leaders, and organizations.
SPIFFE | Secure Production Identity Framework for Everyone
10 Years of SPIFFE! Express your interest in Community Day 2026 →
There are two questions you need to answer when building something new: who is this for, and where is the money going to come from? Some longer thoughts on my exchange with @mosh.bsky.social about the ATproto ecosystem, and its needing a business focus. numergent.com/2026-08/Project-Product-Start…
Project vs. Product, Startup vs. Business
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