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How to Build an AI-Native Company From Day One | AI-Native Series #1
See how AI-native teams build in Boston, and what to take back into your own company.
Building the product used to be the expensive part, and it is now the cheapest thing a founder does. What nobody has made easier is deciding what to build, how small to keep the team, and when to start charging.
This is the opening session of the AI-Native Company Builder Series, a recurring Boston conversation on what building actually looks like now. Paul Rios joins us for a fireside chat and open audience Q&A: how small a team stays, how fast the loop runs, and what a founder is still for.
Tuesday, October 6, 6:00 PM at One Lincoln. Seats are limited. Register to hold yours.
What You'll Learn:
- What changes in the first 90 days when AI is a founding assumption rather than an add-on;
- How small a founding team can stay, and where that stops working;
- Which parts of company building to hand to agents, and which to keep yourself;
- How AI-native teams run a build, test and customer loop in days instead of months;
- What Paul Rios would do differently if he started his company today.
Featured Speaker:
- Paul Rios - GTM Lead for Brazil & LatAm at Lovable - Paul Rios leads go to market for Brazil and LatAm at Lovable, the AI app builder that turns a plain English description into working software. Before Lovable, he spent over a decade at HubSpot, where he built the company's Latin America and Brazil business from zero and ran it as Brazil Country Manager and Director of Sales. He is also an angel investor and an LP in several venture funds, and has mentored B2B founders on go to market through Stage 2 Capital. Paul holds engineering degrees from Columbia and Georgia Tech, an MBA from MIT Sloan, and is based in the Boston area.
Who Should Attend:
- Career changers with deep industry experience who want to build with it instead of for someone else;
- First-time and solo founders with an idea but no team, no technical co-founder and no obvious first step;
- Professionals watching AI reshape their industry who want to be on the building side of it;
- Founders already building who want to see how far a small team goes before hiring anyone.
Additional Resources:
For more information about the investors, accelerators, incubators, and tech events available in Boston, see our list of Startup Resources. Want to start building before the session? Try our AI Skills for founders. Ready to go further? Read the FI program overview.
About Founder Institute:
The Founder Institute is the World's Largest AI-Native Company Builder, giving idea-stage, first-time founders, and employees making the leap to entrepreneurship the tools, global network, and proven methodology to build an AI-powered startup from zero to funding. Since 2009, our structured programs have helped over 9,000 founders across 100 countries raise more than $2BN in funding. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 6 continents, our mission is to empower talented and motivated people everywhere to build impactful, AI-powered companies.
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