👠 Hilfiger's genius marketing stunt, 🎾 Federer on overcoming hard moments

Hey Founders 👋 

Here’s today’s edition of Founder’s Foresight - a newsletter where I comb through news, strategy resources and more and share them to help busy founders like you make the most of information online

💪 Daily Motivation

“Ideas are a commodity. Execution of them is not.” – Michael Dell

🗞️ Founder News

AI news reader Particle adds publishing partners and $10.9M in new funding: Particle is a news-reader startup that helps understand all aspects of a story by using AI to summarize from a variety of publishers. The company is bringing its first publishing partners into the mix to help it guide its next steps.

Mistral secures €600mn funding as valuation soars to almost €6bn: Mistral AI, the Paris-based artificial intelligence start-up, has raised €600mn in new funding at a valuation of almost €6bn, just a year after the Microsoft- and Nvidia-backed company was launched as an unlikely challenger to OpenAI.

Elon Musk drops lawsuit after OpenAI published his emails: Lawyers for Elon Musk on Tuesday moved to dismiss the billionaire’s lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, ending a months-long legal battle between co-founders of the artificial intelligence startup.

🛠️ Tools

TeamCreate allows you to create multi-function AI workers for hundreds of roles in Finance, Sales, Product, Marketing, and more

Ginix finds, analyzes and monitors your product reviews in real-time. Get instant alerts for new reviews and understand their tone with detailed sentiment analysis

📈 Strategy and Tactics

Beehiiv's long-term strategy (with founder Tyler Denk): Beehiiv is an email platform that is currently at $800k MRR. Tyler Denk, the founder of Beehiiiv, talks about the long term strategy of Beehiiv

How Calendly overhauled their product-led sales motion: CRO and CMO of Calendly, Jessica Gilmartin, talks about how they revamped their product-led sales motion and now direct leads to a salesperson. Additionally, she talks about redefining the customer journey which dramatically increased the efficiency and meeting rate in only a few months.

How a genius marketing stunt put Hilfiger on the map before his designs did: It's 1985 and Tommy Hilfiger is a nobody. He wanted to become a well-known brand in the fashion space, so he came to George Lois for help. So Lois came back with an idea - compare Hilfiger (an unknown designer) to the veterans

🙌 Leadership

How CEOs Build Confidence in Their Leadership: Believing the conventional wisdom that they have roughly 90 days to prove themselves, many new CEOs get into trouble by launching bold initiatives before they’ve won the support and trust they need to effect change. According to a study of nearly 1,400 CEOs, earning people’s confidence actually takes two years.

Roger Federer on letting go and overcoming hard moments:

❓Trivia

A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture is a book about which company?

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Last week’s answer: Grok!