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I'm Sam Silva — software engineer and founder, with 15+ years of building products, platforms, and AI systems. Now I'm building Daring to Build: a newsletter and show on AI, distribution, and growth — from zero, in the open, with every number published.
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Daring to Build.
Conversations and field notes on AI, distribution, and growth — how builders start, get seen, and grow. From zero, with every number published.
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Field notes on AI, distribution, and growth — how builders start, get seen, and grow. Launching soon; documented from issue one.
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Daring to Build with Sam Silva — conversations with founders and builders about starting, shipping, and getting seen.
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The company is its own case study, built from zero in the open — subscribers, reach, revenue, what worked and what failed.
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Nine agents, 265 tasks, one deliverable. The post-mortem of a one-person AI company that buried itself in coordination in a week, and the rules the rebuild runs under.
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- May 13, 2024Maximum Subarray Problem - O(n^2) vs O(n)Explore the Maximum Subarray Problem's solutions: the brute force O(n^2) method and the efficient O(n) Kadane's algorithm.