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Andrew Boos is the founder of Darwinian Ventures, a fractional sales advisory firm that builds go-to-market teams for early-stage B2B startups. He's also quietly investing in his own clients from profit, not a fund.

Before Darwinian, Andrew had a profitable exit at 24 from a startup that began as an ad exchange for China (yes, really), fell into post-exit depression nobody wanted to hear about, learned enterprise sales under a CRO with a $4.2 billion annual quota at a Sutter Hill incubation, blew his exit money trying to launch a quantitative hedge fund, and started freelancing to pay rent when law firms came knocking.

We talk about why a linear path to entrepreneurship is a privilege, what happens when your North Star disappears after an exit, how he built Darwinian from a solo 1099 gig into an embedded sales team that's worked with 100+ startups, and why he's now writing small checks into companies where he can see product-market fit before the founders do.

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AI is moving so fast that it's hard to know what to pay attention to and what to tune out. In this episode, Michael Hoy (co-founder and CEO of Atlas) and I dig into what it feels like to build a company during the most disorienting moment in tech most of us have ever experienced.

Michael shares the full Atlas origin story, from winning Product Hunt's product of the day, week, and month, to the humbling realization that 1,200 users didn't translate into a single paying customer. We talk about why the startup advice machine creates more noise than clarity, how AI is shifting from exciting to existential, and why the founders who win are the ones who learn to trust their own signal over everyone else's opinions.

We also get into Michael's vision for where Atlas is headed: a trust layer for the coming agent-to-agent economy, and why that future might be closer than most people think.

Topics we cover:

• Why this month felt like AI truly woke up.
• Building 12 projects in a week and what that means for everyone else.
• The gap between Product Hunt traction and real product-market fit. Education-based marketing that leads with curiosity, not fear.
• Doing things that don't scale on purpose.
• Michael's advice to founders: trust what you're feeling and shut out the noise.

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8 years in corporate sales. One birthday trip to Hawaii. Quit mid-vacation. Became Miss Hawaii 2025. Built a retreat business.

All in 24 months.

Nicole Miranda's timeline sounds impossible. It's not.

This episode is about what happens when you stop optimizing for other people's definitions of success and start trusting that you're on the right river.

We covered:

- The moment she quit her sales job

- Manifesting Miss Hawaii with Dr. Joe Dispenza

- Building Six Degree Soul (tours + retreats)

- Upcoming events in Oahu (August) and Bali (October)

- Why "follow your passion" misses the point

For anyone stuck in a "good" job that's killing them.