Research
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What does Y Combinator want to fund today?: The Request for Startups W27, with its bull case and its bear case
Y Combinator published 11 requests for its Winter 2027 batch, and only one mentions agents. We analyzed each one with data for and against: from 128-week waits for a transformer to the 2027 Medicaid renewals.
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Is Wall Street moving to Solana?
JPMorgan, Visa, and Western Union now operate on Solana, but their own money and control still sit on other chains. We break down what’s in production, what’s piloting, and what’s only been announced, and why banks didn’t adopt Solana: they adopted multichain distribution.
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Between crypto & AI: How can brands survive ecosystem-wide narrative shifts?
From decentralized ownership to machine-generated abundance, the technology industry’s vision of the future has changed dramatically in the past 4 years. How do you build a company that survives the next change of heart?
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X Marketing Experiment: Does a Premium plan or follower count guarantee reach?
In our Q4 2025 test, a 28-follower account received more views than a 20,000-follower verified account. Follower count, account age and verification did not predict distribution in this sample.
