Few observations from YC W26 Alumni day 1. Founders are optimizing for speed rather than amount - Everyone wants to close fast snd get back to building and selling. 2. Rounds are either 4 on 40 mill, 3 on 30 mill, 2.5 on 20 mill caps 3. Outliers are getting oversubscribed before the demo day. Good luck getting on their cap tables 4. Hardware and deep tech companies dominate - In the AI world, momentum has moved towards doing harder things passionately rather than building something that looks like an easy win. 5. gstack vs superpowers claud plugin - equal weightage. Superpowers for daily task. gstack for ceo mode. 6. Build energy is ⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡