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Scaling a hardware startup with zero VC intros | Kostas Koukoravas

September 21, 2026

Kostas Koukoravas came out of lockdown about ten kilos heavier, having taken up baking like half the planet. So he did what a former Microsoft product manager does. He started logging his food. MyFitnessPal first, which meant weighing everything and then typing it in, which meant quitting. Then the AI photo apps arrived and made logging fast, which was great until he found the research: photo estimation nails what the food is and badly misses how much of it there is. Qalzy cites error rates r...

97% of lawsuits never see a courtroom: Mo Tregenza's AI workflows for settling founder disputes fast

September 16, 2026

Did you know that winning a lawsuit can be a worse bet than a Vegas table? Morgan "Mo" Duffy Tregenza thinks so, and she has the courtroom miles to back it up.Mo grew up in Telluride, Colorado, the daughter of a zoologist, back when mining and ranching families still shaped the town. She's an attorney by training. Her grandfather spent 30 years as a judge, then became a mediator in retirement. He taught her that people stand behind outcomes they help build.Mo figured out early t...

"The agent did it" won't hold up in court: Santosh Kaveti on AI agent accountability for founders

September 16, 2026

Congress wants a roll call of your AI agents. Could you produce one by Friday?In early September, Reps. Josh Gottheimer and Mike Lawler introduced the Stop Rogue AI Act. The bill would have NIST write standards for tracking and logging AI agents, including a live, machine-readable inventory of every agent on a network. Meanwhile, carriers like Berkshire Hathaway, Chubb, Travelers and AIG have been writing AI exclusions into standard commercial policies. The era of "give everyone a Claude...