Watch Cash Sources as Paper Flood Hits Markets
With so much paper set to hit the markets over the next few months—across both bonds and equities—it's worth keeping an eye on the potential sources of cash available to absorb this supply. In this context, here is an interesting take from the FT's Lex column. #economy #markets @financialtimes #bonds #stocks #investing #investors
OpenAI Robotics Hiring Engineers to Build Future Robots
OpenAI Robotics is hiring, looking for exceptional full-stack hardware, ops, systems, and ML engineers to help us program and manufacture robots that are useful for society. AI should be able to help people in the physical world. In the short term,...
AI Earnings Drive Market Surge Amid Geopolitical Turbulence
My weekly look at the global economy and markets details how last week capped off a highly active month characterized by a complex interplay of geopolitical developments, shifting energy markets, diverging economic data, and strong corporate earnings reinforcing the AI...
AI-Driven Workflow Turns Weak Sites Into New Clients
This might be one of the smartest agency workflows I've seen. A Claude-powered system finds local businesses with weak websites, rebuilds their website + mobile app, and sends the owner a personalized postcard with a QR preview. No manual prospecting. No endless lead...
Target Low‑Confidence Long‑Tail Queries as AI Takes Clicks
Most SEO playbooks still chase the wrong query type in 2026. The high-intent queries with commercial value are increasingly answered inside Google's AI Overview without a click. The traffic that still clicks: long-tail informational queries where the AI Overview isn't confident. Pivot...
Fix Systems Before Scaling, Not Just Adding People
The most expensive growth mistake I've watched founders make is scaling a process that works at 1x. What runs smoothly with 3 clients breaks at 12. What runs smoothly at 12 breaks at 30. The instinct is to add headcount. The...
Durable Goods Orders Rise, Defying Decline Forecasts
Durable goods orders jumped 0.7% in April, crushing expectations of a decline. 📈 Core business investment also ticked up, signaling a stable manufacturing sector. Good news for the economy. EconUpdate
China Launches 5 Trillion‑yuan Urban Renewal Plan, Prioritizing City Upgrades
Caixin: "China has unveiled a 5 trillion yuan urban renewal plan for 2026-30, outlining major targets for housing upgrades and infrastructure renovation as it shifts from expansion-driven growth to city upgrading." https://t.co/w8TnXl4Uto
Ship Fast: Act on Incomplete Data, Iterate Quickly
The fastest founders I've watched share one habit: they move on incomplete information faster than feels safe. This isn't recklessness. It's a calibrated decision that the cost of waiting for full information usually exceeds the cost of making a wrong call...
Follow Early Platform Trends, Not Mainstream Tactics
Most founders treat distribution channels as independent surfaces. They aren't. LinkedIn audience patterns predict what works on X 6-12 months later. X patterns predict what works on YouTube. YouTube predicts long-form content patterns 18 months out. There's a flow direction in distribution....
Illinois RIAs Use AI to Build Compliance‑Clear Lead Funnel
Illinois RIAs are quietly building a content moat with AI. Not the LinkedIn-thought-leadership kind. The compliance-cleared, search-indexed, lead-generating kind. https://t.co/5el09UY3Y3
Oil‑Driven INR Pressure Signals USD/INR Hedge to 95.5
Macro: higher oil keeps INR pressured; ING sees CAD ~2.1%. Factors: FX reserves & RBI support vs capital outflows/FDI repatriation. Risk: persistent portfolio drain. Trade: hedge USD/INR toward 95.5—Viktor Kopylov, PhD, CFA More insights: t.me/si14Kopylov
Structure Proposals with ROI, Not Just Price
Founders: The winning proposal format: 1. Current state costs ($X) 2. Future state savings ($Y) 3. Net benefit ($Y-$X) 4. Investment required ($Z) 5. ROI ratio (($Y-$X)/$Z) Make it a business case, not a price quote.
TBPN Sale to OpenAI Reshapes Podcast Landscape
TBPN's 9 figure sale to Open AI created a lot of headlines. At Press Publish LA, @tbpn co-host @johncoogan spoke about what the acquisition actually means for the show and the industry. https://t.co/7qlEkEZPEb
Name Specific Timelines to Instantly Boost Offer Conversion
The fastest way to make a flat offer convert: name the timeline. "Setup in 2 weeks" beats "we'll get it running soon." "First report by Friday" beats "we'll send reports regularly." Buyers don't trust hand-waved deliverables. Time-anchors are the cheapest credibility you'll ever...
Corporate Surpluses Offset Government Deficits, Keeping Assets Strong
This is one of the most important macro charts for understanding why financial assets have remained strong despite persistent concerns about deficits, debt, and weak household balance sheets. Because national accounting identities must balance, when one sector (government/households/foreign trade) runs a...
Build a Revenue Command Center to Unlock Top Opportunities
Highest-leverage Claude Code dynamic workflow prompts to generate more revenue, assuming unlimited tokens: 1. Revenue Command Center Use a workflow. Build a revenue command center for [company]. Inspect every available data source I provide: CRM exports, call transcripts, email threads, analytics, proposals,...
More Content Alone No Longer Boosts SEO in 2026
What's the SEO advice you keep hearing that you think is wrong in 2026? For me: "just write more content." Volume without entity authority and citation structure is wasted budget now. What's the advice you'd push back on?
Partner with Me for Ecommerce Email Marketing Referrals
I help ecommerce brands improve their email marketing. If you have clients asking about email and it’s not something you offer, I’d love to be your trusted referral partner.
SaaS Titans Flee to OpenAI, Fueling Enterprise Surge
OpenAI just hired ServiceNow 's CMO Colin Fleming. When people who built the SaaS playbook start leaving, pay attention👇 Fleming spent 13 years at Salesforce . 2 years at ServiceNow. Forbes ranked him among the top 10 most influential CMOs...
Strong Ruble Cuts Inflation, Yet Hurts Exports and Revenue
The Russian ruble has gained 14% vs US dollar in the past year. This has helped bring RU's inflation down from 10.2%/yr to 5.7%/yr. But, a strong ruble lowers the ruble value of exports and squeezes export margins and gov't revenue. Strong Ruble...
System Overhaul Doubles ROAS and Cuts CAC
6 months ago, a D2C brand came to me spending ₹8L/month on Meta Ads. ROAS: 1.8x RTO rate: 38% CAC: ₹1,200 LTV: ₹900 They were literally paying to acquire customers at a loss. Today? ROAS: 3.9x | RTO: 14% | CAC: ₹680 |...
Never Give Price Before Discovery; Qualify First
How to handle the "send me pricing" email before discovery: 1. Don't send pricing. 2. Reply: "Pricing depends on a few specifics. Got 15 min this week to walk through what you're trying to solve?" 3. If they push back: "I'll share the...
S&P 500 Buyback Yield Drops Below Historical Median
GS: Slowing buyback growth alongside equity market appreciation has continued to push the S&P 500 buyback yield lower. The S&P 500 trailing 12-month net buyback yield sits at 1.9%, compared with a median of 2.4% since 2005. https://t.co/PQ1XO5AuhK
Take Small High‑Agency Actions Now, No Permission Needed
5 high-agency moves you can make this week without permission from anyone: 1. Email one person whose work you admire with a specific question (not a generic "pick your brain") 2. Ship one thing publicly that isn't ready 3. Kill one project that's...
AI Agent Turns Your URL Into Automated Sales Pipeline
Oh boy -> Explee has launched AutoGTM, an AI sales agent that turns your website URL into a fully automated outbound pipeline with deep personalization "The pitch is direct: paste your domain, and a team of seven autonomous AI agents...
Auto‑Generate JSON‑LD Schema for Every Page Type
I built a skill that implements schema markup — JSON-LD structured data for rich results, entity linking, and AI discoverability across every page type. You describe your site structure and it generates the correct schema for each page type: Organization, Product,...
One Dozen Key People Drive Hundred‑Billion Companies
Founders who run hundred-billion-dollar companies do not run them alone. They have a dozen people who make it possible. Not hundreds. A dozen. In my conversation with Sucheth, we discussed one of the largest drivers of organizational capability: selecting, recruiting, training,...
Create Urgency by Asking What Happens if Nothing Changes
Most AEs uncover pain on a first call. That’s not the mistake. It's skipping to ask what happens if nothing changes. Think about how many first calls end with a good conversation, a "this sounds helpful,” and then... nothing. The deal...
Realizing One Life Sparks True Founder Worth
Every man has two lives. The second begins when he realises he only has one. I asked Martin Escobari what makes a founder worth backing. Episode out now.
Take Risks Early to Stand Out in AI Era
HORMOZI'S GUIDE TO PERSONAL BRANDING IN THE AI AGE Hormozi just broke down how to stay relevant in as AI floods every feed with fake experts, and it's the clearest framework i've seen on this. full video is 15 mins, but...
U.S. Leads 2024 FDI, Small Nations Still Top
The Top 100 Countries for Foreign Investment Key Takeaways 👉 The U.S. attracted nearly $279 billion in foreign direct investment in 2024, the highest in the world. 👉 Singapore, Hong Kong, and Luxembourg ranked among the world’s top destinations for foreign investment despite...
DXY Hits 3‑year Low; July Rally Expected
$DXY monthly - Closed the month a bit higher. Made a 3 year cycle low in January. So far it hasn't rallied much since the January low but traders are pricing in a 60%-70% chance of a rate hike by...
AI Testing System Delivers 4x ROAS for DTC Ads
After managing 7-figure ad budgets across 20+ DTC brands, here's the AI creative testing system that's hitting 4x ROAS in 2026: → Mine top 50 ads in your niche (Meta Ads Library) → Strip them into 10 hook patterns → Run each hook...
Palo Alto Networks Acquires Portkey to Boost AI Agent Security
@PaloAltoNtwks to Acquire Portkey to Secure the Rise of AI Agents https://t.co/LKaKufUij1 >> Congrats - this is a key step for agentic security. #NextGenApps https://t.co/3c8yraDGs1
Twitch Pushes Stories by Bundling Stream Clips for Catch‑up
Twitch's Stream Summary now encourages streamers to add all their clips from the stream to Stories. The goal appears to be helping viewers "Catch Up" if they miss a stream and increasing demand for the Stories feature, which few use...
Trust, Not Clarity, Closes Deals—Show Proof Early
Sales calls fail at two predictable points, and most sellers focus on the wrong one. Point 1: the buyer doesn't understand what you do clearly enough to evaluate it. Sellers obsess over fixing this. They polish the pitch, sharpen the offer,...
Premium Macro Week Review & Preview: May 29 Highlights
Premium Users - Macro Week in Review/Preview May 29, 2026, on the blog and here https://t.co/FpDusPrJXF
Commodity Trends Still Drive Inflation, Threaten Valuations
We know that inflation is less driven by commodity prices than in the past, but the chart below shows that goods inflation still matters. When the 5-year CAGR of the Bloomberg Commodity Spot Index is consistently above the 5-year inflation...
2026 Market Outlook: Global Macro Trends Revealed
Here's my recent interview with @pompglobal to discuss the global macro picture and where we see markets going in 2026. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfO3dnvmldM&t=65s
New “Clip That” Auto‑formats Vertical Gameplay Clips
The "Clip That" button in streamers' Quick Actions now automatically detects gameplay and camera and formats the clip for the Vertical Feed.
Rate Hikes Dwarf Earnings Growth in S&P Valuation
Another way of illustrating the offsetting forces between earnings growth and interest rates is via the Discounted Cash Flow Model (DCF): S&P 500 below. Currently, with 5-year payout CAGR of 12% the S&P 500 index is fairly valued at an...
Track AI Token Usage to Optimize Subscription Margins
CFO's, are you tracking token usage by customer? It's time to dust off the statistics textbooks. I'm creating the next lesson for my AI metrics course. This lesson focuses on AI margins and AI subscription pricing. If you are offering...
Twitch Began as Justin Kan’s 24/7 Headcam
Justin Kan back when what later became Twitch was just him walking around with a camera on his head 24/7. https://t.co/zSbkhtzGPe
AllogeneTx CEO Change Signals Potential Trouble
🚨! @AllogeneTx just announced that Dr. David Chang will transition from his role as $ALLO President & CEO. The company’s board of directors has elected Zachary Roberts - Allogene’s VP R&D & CMO, as the company’s President and CEO effective...
7‑11‑4 Rule: Build Brand Familiarity Through Cons
Ever heard of the 7-11-4 rule? 🧠 7 hours. 11 touch points. 4 platforms. That's what it takes for someone to truly connect with your brand. You're not just building content. You're building familiarity. 🔥 https://t.co/a6RpdR7kIm
Fintech Brainfood Seeks Summer Interns and Growth Lead
Ever wanted to work with Fintech Brainfood? We’re looking for two summer interns, a growth lead, and a builder to help us scale out content to more platforms, and build some incredibly fun stuff.
Match Thinking Styles to Roles for Better Performance
Some ways of thinking will serve you well for some purposes and serve you poorly for others. It is highly desirable to understand one's own and others' ways of thinking and their best applications. Some qualities are more suitable for...
Demo-Led Growth Replaces PLG in Complex B2B Buying
Demo-led growth might just be the new PLG. Y’all know how much I hate more acronyms in B2B and “what I’m selling led” anything, but this feels more substantial and there’s data to back it up. Product-led growth worked because...
Padres Thrive Financially While Marlins Lag in Revenue
The Marlins very much sit on the opposite end of MLB's financial spectrum compared to the Padres, who fetched $3.9B in a control transaction. Padres: #2 in attendance, $530M in gross revenue Marlins: Last finished better than 27th in attendance in 2012....