Naval said this in 2019. It was true then. It's more urgent now.

Building used to filter people out. It required years of technical skill, expensive tools, a team. Most ideas died before they became products because the barrier to build was simply too high.

AI collapsed that barrier. Today a first-time founder can go from idea to working product in five hours. We know. We've watched it happen 180 times.

But distribution didn't get easier. If anything it got harder.

When everyone can build, the advantage shifts entirely to the person who can also sell – not through ads, not through pitch decks, but through the kind of honest, specific communication that makes a stranger understand why something matters and want to be part of it.

That combination – build and sell, in one person – is still rare. And it's now the most valuable thing a founder can develop.

Shipin exists to close that gap.

Build Sprint is where you go from idea to shipped product in a single day. Sell Sprint is where you go from product to first paying customer. Two skills. One community. In that order, or in whatever order you arrive.

The world doesn't need more pitch nights. It needs more founders who can stand behind what they built and say clearly why it matters.

That's what we're building here.

I kept meeting founders who had built something real and had no idea how to get it in front of anyone.

Not because they were weak or passive. Because nobody had ever taught them that distribution is a skill – and that it starts before you have anything to sell.

Building is getting easier. AI is making sure of that. The gap now, the one that actually determines whether a product survives, is on the other side. It's the gap between a product that works and a product that travels.

Shipin is where that changes.

You ship something. You learn to talk about it. You find the first person who pays for it. In that order – or you arrive already having built, and you go straight to the sell sprint.

Everything we run here comes from one belief: if you can build and sell, you will be unstoppable. We're here to make sure you can do both.

– Ada