Good Combinator

GROW by Good Combinator

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GROW by Good Combinator is the skills library for building AI-era ventures, products, and institutions. The flagship track is the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) Certification — eight courses that take you from what an FDE is through running a practice as a founder. Each lesson pairs a working operator's method with a concrete artifact you can use the same day. Course 1: FDE Foundations is free. Hosted by Doug Liles, founder of Good Combinator and an elected Special District Commissioner in South Walton, Florida. New lessons drop Tuesdays. Start at goodcombinator.com/grow.

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Aug 9, 2026

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S1 E1 · The Economics of the AI Era — GROW by Good Combinator 27.05.2026

Why the collapsing cost of intelligence rewrites who builds — and what an FDE actually is. In Lesson 1.1 of GROW Course 1 (Forward Deployed Engineer Foundations), Doug Liles works through it with you: a clear definition of the Forward Deployed Engineer role and the economic shift that created it. What you'll take away The cost-of-intelligence shift What a Forward Deployed Engineer is Why the role...

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