I've been working with AI tools for a while now. But a team of agents — not tools I pick up and put down, something closer to a standing team working alongside me — that's only the last
Hi there! My name is David Webber. I'm an Entrepreneur, Investor, and Technologist near Detroit, Michigan. It’s nice to meet you.
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Six months with a team of agents: what I changed my mind about
You don't need money to make money
A founder told me they were stuck. Good idea. Real customer conversations. They'd talked to the market, confirmed the problem, sketched a roadmap. The thing standing between them and building it, they said, was funding. They couldn'
The most expensive friend a startup can have
The founder is telling me about their best customer. The one who took the meeting on short notice, who sends the encouraging notes, who introduced them to two other companies. They light up describing this relationship. Then I ask what
Knowing when to kill it
A founder came to me recently with what he thought was a failure report. He'd spent several months in an unfamiliar industry — going deep, talking to people, mapping the ecosystem. He'd learned a lot. He'
The impostor is right about one thing
The feeling usually shows up at the worst moment. You're in a room that matters — a pitch, a board meeting, a call with a customer who actually has budget — and some part of your brain issues a quiet
The city as coach
A founder told me last month that he didn't think Detroit could teach him anything about building at scale. He lives in Midtown. He has a real product, a real team, a real customer pipeline. But when he
The kind of tired you can't fix with a vacation
There's a specific kind of tired founders carry that doesn't get talked about enough. It's not the loud kind. Burnout is loud. This is quieter. It's the tired you bring with you