Ship fast or die

Matthew Blode

Two startups. Two acquisitions.

VenueSafe

Acquired by me&u

Fingertip

Acquired by Linktree

Ship fast or die

How tiny teams ship fast with AI: a repeatable loop to build, learn, and iterate, and the habits that keep speed from breaking what matters.

  1. 1Two startups. Two acquisitions.
  2. 2Who this is for
  3. 3The mindset
  4. 4Invert your thinking
  5. 5What makes teams ship slow?
  6. 6Team shape that ships
  7. 7Think to 80%, then ship
  8. 8AI writes the code
  9. 9How to build with AI
  10. 10Anyone can ship
  11. 11Design without Figma
  12. 12You don’t need to make AI slop
  13. 13You can sense carelessness
  14. 14AI likes to build in layers
  15. 15Claude needs a good setup
  16. 16If AI finds changes are hard, something’s wrong
  17. 17The front-end stack AI loves
  18. 18The back-end stack AI loves
  19. 19Ship fast, rollback faster
  20. 20Raise the bar deliberately
  21. 21Workflow for shipping
  22. 22Don’t guess what’s broken
  23. 23Personal systems matter
  24. 24Questions?