# Parag Arora — paragarora.com

> Parag Arora writes about startups, entrepreneurship, technology, and company building.

## About

Parag Arora is a founder and writer. This site publishes essays on startup strategy, product thinking, and the mechanics of building companies. The research section contains deeply sourced, data-driven pieces on topics relevant to founders and operators.

## Content

- Blog posts: /
- Research (premium, deeply sourced): /research/
- RSS feed: /rss.xml

## Research

Each research piece is built from primary sources, academic papers, and founder testimonials. The research section includes interactive data visualizations. Current research:

- The Customer Drift: How Companies Stop Listening After They Raise — /research/companies-stop-talking-customers/ — 32 sources on how companies lose direct customer contact as they scale, and the structural forces driving the drift.
- Launch Attention, Not Utility: Why Your First 1,000 Users Come From a Moment — /research/launch-attention-not-utility/ — 40 sources on why first-user acquisition is determined by manufactured attention, not product utility, and how founders systematically misallocate pre-launch effort.
- YC's Last 3 Years: Every Company, Every Batch, Every Dollar Raised — /research/yc-3year-batch-analysis/ — 60 sources, exhaustive analysis of every YC company W22 through W25. Which raised the most, which survived, which became unicorns, and the AI takeover arc (15% to 70% in 24 months).

## Posts

- The Company Brain: How a VC Fund Runs Itself on AI Agents. /company-brain-vc-fund-ai-agents/ explains what a company brain is, why point tools fail venture funds, and how AI agents on one shared memory automate dealflow end to end: intake, research dossiers, investment thesis scoring, IC memos, portfolio monitoring. Includes a 4 minute live demo video.

## Contact

- Twitter/X: @paragarora
- Site: https://paragarora.com