Marcus Vihaan
10 stories by Marcus Vihaan
Buying Smart String Grid Forming ESS for your site
Explore Smart String Grid Forming ESS: key design considerations, operating limits, verification and maintenance for real-world energy projects.
Tobias Lütke: The Programmer Who Built a Snowboard Shop and Changed Commerce Snowboard Shop
He wasn't trying to reinvent retail. He was trying to sell snowboards online — and the e-commerce software was so bad he wrote his own. That piece of side code became Shopify.
Why the Types of EV Chargers Deserves a Closer Design Review EV Chargers
A practical look at types of EV chargers for public charging projects, including system integration, operating risks, field tests and service planning.
Whitney Wolfe Herd: Building Bumble After Tinder After Tinder
She helped build the app that made swiping a verb. Then she was pushed out. The company she built next worked because of what the first one taught her — not in spite of it.
Patrick Collison: Seven Lines of Code That Changed the Internet Seven Lines of Code
How a teenager from County Tipperary looked at the payments industry, decided the complexity was fake, and built the pipes most of the internet now runs on.
Richard Branson: The Dropout Who Built 400 Companies 400 Companies
A dyslexic schoolboy was told he would end up in prison or a millionaire. He chose a third option: build a brand that rents its name to the world.
Elon Musk: The Founder Who Bet Everything — Twice Bet Everything
How a broke immigrant kid from Pretoria put every dollar back on the table — and nearly lost it all in a single week of 2008.
Why Some Founders Take Three Years to Launch and Still Win
Move fast and break things is advice, not law. For complex products, trust-dependent markets, and founders who need domain mastery, a deliberate three-year build can be the shortest path to a durable business.
The Founder Burnout Cycle: Why Year Two Is Harder Than Year One Year Two
The adrenaline that carries founders through launch is a loan, not a gift. In year two, the interest comes due — and most are unprepared for what it costs.
12 traits every successful entrepreneur shares — backed by real founder interviews.
We reviewed years of long-form interviews with founders who built durable businesses — Zoho, Perplexity, 10minutes.news, Bending Spoons, and more — and pulled the twelve patterns that actually show up in the people who make it, in their own words.