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Social•Dec 20, 2025
Storyteller Roles Become High-Leverage Hires for Startups
I'm hearing that more startups and growth companies are hiring for the "storyteller" role. I think that's cool. It's a very high-leverage role/skill.
By Dharmesh Shah
Social•Dec 18, 2025
Sergey Brin Could Be Google's Satya Nadella
The question I've been asking myself for the last 3 years: Who will do for Google what Satya did for Microsoft? Turns out, it might be Sergey Brin. Not that he's going to take on the CEO role, but that...
By Dharmesh Shah
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Great Leaders Embrace Judgment, Diversity, and Contradiction
There's a lot to learn from Amazon in terms of how they execute and how they think about leadership. This is one of favorite snippets from the book "Think Like Amazon": “Leaders are right a lot. They have strong judgment...
By Dharmesh Shah
Social•Dec 16, 2025
Customer Conversations Beat Aggregated Data Every Time
I'm collaborating with a small team at HubSpot this week on a project. I'm meeting with them tomorrow, so they sent me a Loom to view in preparation for that meeting (smart). If you can provide context async, that's an...
By Dharmesh Shah
Social•Dec 16, 2025
Be Rank‑Worthy, Train AI Agents Like Teammates
Did a recent podcast appearance with Rowan Cheung of "The Rundown" fame (full YouTube video in comments). Some of the ideas discussed: * The best way to be rank in Google is to be rank-worthy. The best way to get...
By Dharmesh Shah
Social•Dec 16, 2025
From SEO to AEO: AI Insights and Quirky Strategies
I don't do a lot of podcasts, but I enjoyed this conversation with @rowancheung. Covered a lot of territory, including SEO->AEO, AI (of course) and some of my quirky ways.
By Dharmesh Shah
Social•Dec 7, 2025
From Hotel Rooms to HubSpot: Turning Crisis Into Growth
Always fun to be speaking back on the MIT campus. Fun fact: In the early days of HubSpot, the shared office we were working in had a fire in the building. We had to evacuate for days. So, Brian Halligan...
By Dharmesh Shah
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Focus Beats Custom AI Coding for SaaS Replacements
"Why should companies pay for SaaS (HR/CRM/ERP/etc.) when they could just vibe code them?" I get variations of this question or comment with some regularity (granted, it's sometimes just me talking to myself). Here are some biased (but hopefully, well-considered) thoughts: 1)...
By Dharmesh Shah
Social•Dec 2, 2025
Focus Beats AI‑built SaaS; Stick with Proven Platforms
"Why should companies pay for SaaS (HR/CRM/ERP/etc.) when they could just vibe code them?" I get variations of this question or comment with some regularity (granted, it's sometimes just me talking to myself). Here are some biased (but hopefully, well-considered)...
By Dharmesh Shah
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Group Bots and Recorders Into One Zoom Video Box
Idea for Zoom : Have a special designation/detection for participants in a meeting that are agents, bots and meeting recorders. Put all of these participants in their own single "box" in the video gallery (so you could show up to...
By Dharmesh Shah
Social•Nov 30, 2025
Mission Defines Today, Vision Guides Tomorrow
What's the difference between a company's mission and vision? Here's how I think about it... A mission states who the company is, what it is pursuing and why. It's describes what is (hopefully) happening *today*. A vision describes where the...
By Dharmesh Shah
Social•Nov 28, 2025
Domain Names Now Tokenized, Investor Highlights Doma
tl;dr: We now have tokenization of domain names. Full disclosure: I'm an indie investor in Doma.
By Dharmesh Shah
Social•Nov 28, 2025
Seeking Simple, Consistent UI Without Unwanted Design Elements
CURRENT STATUS: Trying to get really professional web UI/UX out of Codex 5.1, but struggling. Looking to build a mini "design language" for my projects. Current issue: Despite specific instructions to avoid purple accents and buttons and such, it just...
By Dharmesh Shah
Social•Nov 24, 2025
Claude Opus 4.5 Streamlines Tool Calling, Cuts Token Bloat
BREAKING: Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.5 Several of the upgrades are squarely at people like me, developers building agents. I'm particularly impressed with how elegantly they handle one of the biggest issues developers are dealing with: tool calling. MCP is...
By Dharmesh Shah
Social•Nov 23, 2025
New AI Agent Adds Visual Timeline to Company Research
It's shipping Sunday! (Not all days are Shipping Sundays for me -- but today is). As you may recall, a few weeks ago, I launched a simple but super-useful (at least for me) AI agent called CompanyResearch .ai The premise is...
By Dharmesh Shah
Social•Nov 21, 2025
AI Image Generator with Real‑Time Revision and Nano Banana Pro
OK, so it's past 2am (my usual bedtime), but I have something too exciting not to launch/share. It's not really quite ready (consider it "alpha"), but when it works, it's super cool. Here's the deal: I have a business-focused Image Generation...
By Dharmesh Shah
Social•Nov 14, 2025
Rapid Iterations Boost CompanyResearch.ai with GPT‑5.1
It's almost 3am, but I'm on a roll. UPDATE: It *was* 3am last night when I started writing this, but I (wisely) decided *not* to post this last night. Day 3 of the CompanyResearch .ai launch. Just released an update: 1) Now uses...
By Dharmesh Shah
Social•Nov 13, 2025
From FOMO to TOBI: Thrilled by GPT‑5.1 Codex
BREAKING NEWS: GPT 5.1 is out...and there was much rejoicing. It has been about a week since I last used Claude Code (I've written about why previously). OpenAI's Codex CLI is now my default daily driver for vibe coding (agentic coding)....
By Dharmesh Shah
Social•Nov 11, 2025
Launch: All-in-One AI Company Research Tool
Woo hoo! Launching my latest project, the Company Research agent. Was going to launch it at 1am last night, but decided there was no reason to tempt the fates. It's an agent that lets you...umm...easily do company research. I built it...
By Dharmesh Shah
Deals•Jun 7, 2021
Author Commits $1M Seed Investment in BitClout
The article announces a $1,000,000 investment into BitClout by the author. The funding is presented as a direct investment in the blockchain-based crypto social network announced on 2021-06-07.
Dharmesh Shah