Nick Davidov on Founder

I’m old enough to remember when OpenAI enabled internet access for ChatGPT and people also said “Perplexity is dead”. Perplexity was a series A startup with like 100k users back then. Guess they’re just good at relentlessly reincarnating

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Why it worked

Uses concrete numbers instead of vague claims, which makes it credible and quotable.
Points at real customers, users or results as evidence rather than assertion.
Written from experience rather than as advice, which is harder to argue with.
Short enough to read in full without expanding, which removes a step before the point lands.
Short sentences keep the pace up, so the reader never has to re-read a line.
Quotes someone directly, which makes the moment concrete rather than summarised.

The mechanics

Hook: Plain observation
Structure: Hook → Landing
Style: Conversational paragraphs at a steady pace.
Tone: personal, concrete
Mechanisms: Specificity, Social proof
Written for: Founders and early-stage teams

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