Startups Can Grow Tenfold, YC Fuels the Boom
What do I believe that few other people believe yet? Startups can and will be 10x bigger YC’s role to make that happen. We're the tree of prosperity: minting more great founders so that both the mega-platforms and the boutiques have more to back. Returns come from there.
Future Teams: PMs Code, Architect Manages Infrastructure
anyone with theories on how software teams will evolve? today: 1 eng, 1 PM, 1 designer (EPD) tomorrow: 10 PMs who vibe code all day + 1 eng architect (the architect creates the scaffolding and writes adversarial agents to manage tech debt, security, scalability issues) Thoughts?
PE Overvalued Saa
Entrepreneurs: private equity firms OVERVALUED SaaS companies during 2020-21. NOW, those “overvalued” companies are getting marked down 30-60% 🤯 If you’re an investor = BUY distressed assets LOW If you’re a startup founder = CASHFLOW CASHFLOW
AI Personas Deliver Instant Strategic Product Feedback
Out of all the things we've shipped recently, this one has been my biggest wow moment. Instant feedback from any type of user... → Create a persona that matches your real users and buyers. → An AI agent takes on...
Master One Product, Not Many, to Drive Growth
When @benfrancis was first building @gymshark , he was encouraged to expand its product range to reach a broader audience. More appeal equals more growth, right? They found the opposite. Growth isn’t always about adding more. Sometimes it’s about becoming lethal...
CEOs May Flee Taxes, but California Retains Talent
This take might age like milk, but I'm calling it: the tech CEOs might move their domicile to other states for tax reasons, but they will keep their teams in California. The chicken-and-egg of talent density is so difficult to replicate...
Winning Products Focus on the Critical Last 20%
We’re about to be flooded with: – average MVPs – look-alike products – tools with no point of view – software that works but doesn’t matter What actually wins now isn’t speed to “something.” Today, anyone can prompt their way...
Earn $1 Now, Not $1M Dreamed Inaction
Making $1 beats planning to make $1M and doing nothing. Seen this too many times with aspiring founders.
Ship Imperfectly, Let Users See Your Vision
Flo Crivello , founder of Lindy told me he gave early users a product that was oily, half-broken, and rough around the edges. His no-code AI automation platform wasn't ready. Not by traditional standards. The first people through the door...
Build What People Want, Not Just a Good Product
Most solopreneurs don’t fail because their product is bad. They fail because they build things nobody wants. If you start with “what should I build?”, you’re already late. Comment “YES” if this hit home.
Share Your Side Project, Get Featured Monthly
If you have a side project, share below. I'll retweet some interesting ones to give you more attention 😄 I'll do this every month to encourage more people to build side projects and escape 9-5.
AI Tools Match the Skill of Their Operators
A corollary for AI tooling: its outputs will only ever be as good as the person wrangling them from it. That's really all it is. Yet another powerful tool (like a compiler, or k8s) that can only be run effectively by...
Tech Founders Forced Into Management Find Solace in Warhammer
yeah I guess technical founders never had to deal with being (self-)promoted to management. Those who never wanted to work for a boss again now are becoming the ultimate pencil-pushers. I'm going through the same sobering realization. The antidote? Painting Warhammer.
Opening VC Doors: Democratizing Wealth Through Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is one the greatest means to wealth creation and venture capital is one of the levers that fuels that, yet it’s gate kept by insiders… My goal has always been to change that.
Join AI Startup Founders at Conviction's Mixture-of-Experts Event
hi! if you want to work at some of the most interesting startups in AI, come to our next mixture-of-experts event at @conviction and hear from the founders of Harmonic, Worktrace, Sunday, Treehouse and Trajectory https://t.co/ZL7mdnszUl
Avoid Copycats: Dare to Think Differently for Startup Survival
When the typical outcome for a post seed, post series A, and post series B startup is death. Perhaps the best strategy is to be careful how much you copy the startups around you. Are you brave enough...
Being a VC Is Mostly About Mastering Sales
Aspiring VCs - do you know VC is a ton of sales? Externally: - Pitching to LPs - Winning over founders & other VCs - Recruiting talent Internally: - Pitching new deals to your team - Proposing new firm initiatives - Suggesting new firm processes
Pulse Slashes Research Time From Hours to Minutes
BIG NEWS: I just launched Pulse. The world's first news reader that cuts research from 2 hours to 5 mins👇
Build on Sundays, Skip the Super Bowl, Win
Entrepreneurs: if you spent more time on Sunday building than watching the Super Bowl, you're going to WIN.
Recruiting: From Task to Strategic Talent Mapping
Posting jobs and waiting fails. Demand beats supply in hiring. A headhunter mindset shifts recruiters from process to market mapping and relationships. You map talent, build ties, and engage before rivals. Do you treat recruiting as a task or a strategy?
AI Adoption Requires Leadership, Not Just Employee Compliance
A corporate position that workers should "just use AI to do stuff" has never been enough. AI use in companies is a leadership problem that involves answering fundamental questions about what people should do with their time, how work is...
Bug‑Fix Speed Reveals a Founder’s True Mastery
If you use any software, you will hit bugs. Only a tiny 5% of your users will ever report bugs. The speed at which those bugs are fixed is the true measure of a founder in mastery of their craft.
Underpricing Kills Growth; Raise Prices to Boost Sales
A house being sold at 90% of the value you think is appropriate, is a great deal. A house at 50%… you suspect a major flaw… probably it’s not worth dealing with it. First time founders often price like the second, ...
Demand First, MVPs Overrated, Code Comes Later
MVPs are overrated. You don’t need a smaller product. You need real demand. Code comes second. Agree or disagree? Comment below.
Voice AI Startups Secured $650M+ Funding in January
Voice AI startups raised more than $650 million in January. The figure goes up if you count startups like Synthesia and Decagon. I am keeping a track of voice AI funding in a post on my newsletter. https://t.co/j5BU7tpGJx
Being Copied Proves You're Ahead—Keep Innovating
When someone copies your product/design/pricing/website/feature, it’s OK to be mad. Also remember: It means they have no ideas, no insight, and they don’t know how to get it. Which means you’ll always be ahead, just by doing what you’re already doing. So do...
Delegation: The Key to Scaling Beyond the Founder
One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned as a startup founder is the value of delegation. Letting go of control was uncomfortable, but it’s the only way the company could grow past me.
Tech Workers Risk Career Stagnation Due to Company Lock‑in
Ever felt org lock-in? Ime it’s pretty common in tech even if we rarely name it. You spend years mastering one company’s hyper-niche systems and edge cases. Then one day you look up, scan the market, and nothing seems to fit. Everything...
Deep Data Science and Startup Can't Coexist Full‑Time
Let me explain to y’all saying can’t i do both the $370k full time data science role at Anthropic & my startup. As someone who has analyzed 2.5billion daily active youtube user data, data science is intense You cannot do deep...