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Taeho Kim

I write about how AI changes the way people decide, execute, and work together.

These essays come from building products, leading teams, and learning what actually helps people move faster and what just creates noise.

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Startup → exit•Kakao Ventures EIR•Product & engineering

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The Era of the Solo Unicorn Has Arrived

Themes

The five themes I keep coming back to

Before the archive, start with the themes that keep showing up across the essays.

Startup

What makes startups move, wobble, and eventually grow.

Sep 28, 2025

Entrepreneurs are athletes and startups are the Olympics.

Leadership

How teams see the same problem, make decisions together, and keep shipping.

Jul 13, 2025

For early startups, start with ‘essence’ rather than shiny methodology.

AI

Where AI makes a real difference in day-to-day work.

Nov 30, 2025

Where are knowledge workers going?

Data

Where metrics, judgment, and clarity come together.

Nov 2, 2025

Use calibrated social media

Health

How health, habits, and recovery change the quality of work.

Dec 14, 2025

A better life through the data provided by my body

Featured Writing

Start with these essays

These are the pieces that best capture how I think right now.

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AI • Feb 2, 2026

A Mental Model for Building All-Purpose SaaS for Early-Stage Startups

The core loop behind a surprising amount of back-office SaaS is simple: input, processing, approval, and storage. Once AI agents can run that loop on top of your existing repo and workflows, the question shifts from which SaaS to buy to how you want to trigger, review, and accumulate the knowledge.

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Notes

Short notes

Observations and judgments before they turn into longer essays.

Health · Data & Decision-Making

Feb 20, 2026

Andrej Karpathy posted his resting-heart-rate experiment on X.

Founders around me now all use Oura, Whoop, or an Apple Watch. I would bet that living like a scientist, running N=1 experiments on your own body, mind, and daily life, will become the norm.

Health

Feb 9, 2026

Whenever my habits start slipping, I put on a CGM and switch back into good-habits mode.

Every few months, when my lifestyle starts drifting in the wrong direction, I buy a continuous glucose monitor and use it to snap back into better habits. The new Dexcom G7 has been so off that my own glucose-prediction model performs better.

AI

Feb 7, 2026

Let AI take on more of the busywork, and live like this.

Let AI take on more of the busywork and live like this. I agree that, as of 2026, this is the highest leverage available.

AI

Feb 5, 2026

How I use Claude Code, according to the new /insights feature.

The new /insights feature in Claude Code described me as a high-throughput power user running Claude Code as an always-on development and business-operations partner. I think that is directionally right.

Background

Where these essays come from

These essays come out of building products, leading teams, and working inside real companies.

LinkedIn • Jan 7, 2025

The Intro Post I Shared When I Started Working with Kakao Ventures

I like building things, but I only consider them truly alive when people actually use them. My path has taken me from founding a startup in the U.S. to seeing companies across Korea and the U.S. at many different stages, and that accumulated experience is what I hope to bring into this EIR role.

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This Kakao Ventures introduction note is the shortest way to understand the background behind these essays.

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Why I keep this here

I hope this is useful.

If there is more to talk about, feel free to reach out.

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