r/ExperiencedFounders is a subreddit with 10k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and self-promotion, and the community frequently discusses startup, ai, founder, founders, and saas.
Open community to ask questions. We've built a network of real seasoned founders (check out the AMA section) that's actively lurking and answering questions.
Popular Themes in r/ExperiencedFounders
#1
Solution Requests
: "Spent two weeks building a SaaS"
16 posts
#2
Self-Promotion
: "I'm Drew Dillon. For 15 years I've doubled team output (Yammer, Microsoft, 20+ startups) by sharing the decisions and tradeoffs behind the work, not just the spec itself. Coding agents need the same, just 10x faster. So I built Brief. a16z speedrun."
13 posts
#3
Advice Requests
: "What documents should you include in your Data Room?"
9 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "An AI Agent Just Destroyed Our Production Data. It Confessed in Writing."
6 posts
#5
Money Talk
: "How R&D credits and cost segregation saved me serious tax money"
5 posts
#6
Opportunities
: "Capacity imminent"
4 posts
#7
Ideas
: "After reading dozens of founder shutdown stories, I noticed the same mistake over and over again"
3 posts
#8
News
: "What Y Combinator Actually Feels Like (from a European founder halfway through the batch)"
2 posts
Popular Topics in r/ExperiencedFounders
#1
Startup
: "Caller: “Dave. I am thinking about joining a new AI Startup.”"
23 posts
#2
Ai
: "Caller: “Dave. I am thinking about joining a new Ai startup.”"
22 posts
#3
Founder
: "Any Founders here cracked AEO, specifically monitoring how LLMs are representing your product?"
10 posts
#4
Founders
: "We're two Harvard Law lawyers turned ML engineers turned YC Founders - one of us led AI at Casetext (sold to Thomson Reuters for $650M). We quit to build General Legal, an AI law firm that provides elite corporate/commercial legal services for a fraction of the traditional law firm price/time. AMA."
9 posts
#5
Saas
: "Caller: “Dave. People on X are saying vibe coding is the end of Saas.”"
6 posts
#6
Tools
: "Top 5 Tools to monitor your brand’s presence in AI search results"
5 posts
#7
Investors
: "Building Rotten Tomatoes for Enterprise AI Compliance and Trust, Early Stage Investors & Technical Co-Founder (San Francisco Based("
3 posts
#8
Startups
: "Early-stage Startups often add complexity too quickly"
3 posts
#9
Docusign
: "Docusign founder Court Lorenzini told us 3 insane stories!"
2 posts
#10
Enterprise
: "First Enterprise customer experience"
2 posts
Flair Used in r/ExperiencedFounders
#1
AMA
: "We're two Harvard Law lawyers turned ML engineers turned YC founders - one of us led AI at Casetext (sold to Thomson Reuters for $650M). We quit to build General Legal, an AI law firm that provides elite corporate/commercial legal services for a fraction of the traditional law firm price/time. AMA."
1 post
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+8k members(338.8%)
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Last updated: August 13, 2026