Jessie Yang reflects on building, running, and ultimately shutting down her meal service startup

Practical lessons from recent alumni on getting a job in this market

How Founders Find Technical Support at HBS

In the age of AI, the world belongs to the builders. In 2011, Marc Andreessen wrote that “software is eating the world.” 14 years later, that line feels less like a prediction and more like a prologue, the opening chapter of a story that was only beginning to unfold. Software never finished eating the world. AI simply arrived with two forks and a much bigger appetite. We are now in the early innings of a technological revolution: an era where agents write code, AI absorbs ent

After a long night of too many drinks of Founders Mindset and Essays  by Paul Graham, I woke up with the following question: for what are early-stage VC firms really looking? LinkedIn is overflowing with posts insisting that you must have everything figured out before you build anything: a clearly defined problem, a big enough market, the perfect team, a plan to scale fast, metrics proving your solution works, a moat to defend it, a sustainable business model, an efficient di

From scientist to founder, Jessica Schwabach (MBA ‘27) shares what five years in food tech taught her about building, scaling, and starting again. When Jessica Schwabach (MBA ‘27) signed up for UC Berkeley’s “Alternative Meats Lab” on a whim, she never imagined it would become the thesis, then the company, then the exit, that defined the first chapter of her entrepreneurship journey. What began as genuine curiosity about why plant-based meats tended to taste dry evolved into