🌊 Mercor: $1M to $1B ARR in 20 months

The growth playbook behind Silicon Valley's youngest billionaires

May 21 • Ivan Landabaso

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🌊 Replit's Growth Playbook: $2.5M to $250M ARR in 12 Months

9 growth levers behind the $1B ARR target for 2026.

May 14 • Ivan Landabaso

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🌊 Sierra's Growth Playbook: $0 to $165M ARR in 26 months

The 10 levers that wired enterprise AI's fastest go-to-market

May 7 • Ivan Landabaso

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April 2026

🌊 Granola's Growth Playbook: $0 to $1.5B valuation in 3 years

The growth levers, the moat, and the fastest rising AI notepad.

Apr 30 • Ivan Landabaso

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🌊 Perplexity's Growth Playbook: 0 → $450M ARR in 3.5 years

How compounding trust built a $20B threat to Google.

Apr 25 • Ivan Landabaso

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🌊 What 3 Years at Facebook Taught Me About Building a €10K MRR Community Business

The playbook I used at Facebook, then used to build and sell my own.

Apr 16 • Ivan Landabaso

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🌊 How Harvey Hit $200M+ ARR by Selling Trust Before Software

The expand-collapse playbook for vertical AI, from a cold email to $11B.

Apr 9 • Ivan Landabaso

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March 2026

🌊 Lovable's Growth Playbook: 0 to $400M ARR in 14 Months

Lovable's growth playbook, stage by stage.

Mar 26 • Ivan Landabaso

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🌊 How Freepik Hit 100M Users With €0 in Venture Capital

The growth playbook behind the bootstrapped company ranked #11 in generative AI.

Mar 19 • Ivan Landabaso and Jordi Noguera

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🌊 AI's $1T blind spot

Sequoia's new thesis, Anthropic's labour data, and 198 YC startups point to the same gap.

Mar 12 • Ivan Landabaso

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🌊 The 3 charts that explain the AI race

Ramp data, $19B run rates, and the metric nobody is watching

Mar 5 • Ivan Landabaso

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February 2026

🌊 How SaaS Inverts Into Agents

Six frameworks for the post seat-based software world.

Feb 26 • Ivan Landabaso

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