A blue-collar founder used AI to completely change his business trajectory. After shifting from SEO to AI agents, he streamlined quoting, scaled operations and created a growth flywheel that took revenue from $242k to nearly $1M in a short time. AI is no longer just a tech story. It is becoming a real-world productivity multiplier across industries. https://t.co/FCnrufncCU @fortunemagazine

Jack got laid off hours after putting an offer on a house. But today: • He's on track to hit $200K • Works 20-30 hours per week • Takes 1-2 months off each year • Consistently lands $10K-15K deals And he even has this killer Product...
Something I legit wrestle with… is it worth keeping a public changelog anymore for your SaaS business? Any competitor can basically now automatically ingest the updates and get Claude to make PRs. It only gets them a scrappy level of parity...

‘This #AI tool helped me define a target customer for my startup’ by Kara Baskin @MITSloan Learn more: https://t.co/66vsUiVaIn #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ML #DL https://t.co/BFJVZcSL0T
Discover the transformative journey of entrepreneurship with the newly released audiobook 'Start A Coaching Business In 30 Days (3rd Ed.)'. This practical guide lays the foundation for aspiring coaches. https://t.co/oLVuRg4oA4
Most companies chase growth in new markets and ignore the core. Top performers do the opposite. They drive 80% of growth from the core, then push 20% into adjacencies one step away, which adds 3–4% excess shareholder return. They shift capital and talent...
Once you clone yourself with AI everything changes Most founders get stuck bc every decision goes through you My Clone Yourself Checklist shows you which decisions to systematize 1st so your team runs without you Comment CLONE and I'll share it. Follow me...
Every time you update your beliefs based on evidence, you get closer to reality. The people who consistently win have the ability to change their position when the data changes. Strong opinions, weekly held. Keep your ego in check. Love your efforts,...
Some of the best advise I ever received was “just make a choice” Don’t think if it’s perfect or if there’s better ways to do it. Make the choice - get started and figure the rest out as you go. Too many...
NYT proving my point… I invest in 100 amazing startups a year The @nytimes reporting is limited to anti-tech, anti-capitalism content only After 700 startup investments, their coverage is limited to political nonsense and negativity Meanwhile, every week I reach...
Founders must seek & accept truth: • some of your assertions are wrong • you're not the target customer • the customer wants something else • competitors aren't dumb • high cancellation means you're doing something wrong • that one person has to be fired https://t.co/wsmjUo9euu
What Jack Dorsey learned from Bill Walsh (49er’s legend) about going from startup founder to scaleup ceo.
If $10k/mo is life-changing money for you, NOW is your moment. Sam perfectly articulated what we are about to see in EVERY market. For example, the Shopify Reviews space: 2018 - Yotpo = $1,000/mo 2022 - Okendo = $300/mo 2026...
. @DanLifshits, co-founder of Dwelly, explains how he and his partners are building an AI-enabled roll-up in the UK lettings market by acquiring independent agencies and modernizing them with software. After completing 9 acquisitions in just 24 months, Dwelly recently announced...
"When execution is so fast, understanding what you're doing becomes more important. You can go in the wrong direction so quickly." I love this reminder from @karrisaarinen (CEO @Linear). It's easy to spin up 10 agents to go in 10 directions....

"There is a staggering number of businesses that are open and are being subsidized by free labour donated by their owners. These aren’t businesses; they’re hobbies disguised as businesses." –Smarter than a #Startup (2019) https://t.co/l2EObkfURN #smallbiz https://t.co/SXnwrzAOYw
Your first million proves one thing - you solved a real problem. After that? It’s all execution. Then comes the real game: acquisitions. Buy your competitors, integrate, cut costs, and scale. That’s how you build a massive company. https://t.co/e7zJxbusiU
Founders think they’re competing against other products. Most are actually competing against a shrinking clock. Every market has an expected Time to Value. And that expectation keeps compressing. I call this The Halving Principle™. The Halving Principle™ is the observation...

Helping female founders grow to 7 figures and that’s the way I like it! 🎶✨
A lot of talented people get stuck because they keep waiting for perfect alignment before they move. Perfect title. Perfect timing. Perfect confidence. Perfect plan. Meanwhile the people passing them are just making reasonable bets and building as they go.
ok, theory, a frontier model creator lands a real breakthrough, they won’t ship it to the public first - they’ll aim it inward. their own products get supercharged, & suddenly you see a flurry of releases in rapid succession that...

One simple daily habit helped me: • Quit my Wall Street job • Become an entrepreneur • And build an 8-figure digital business The habit? Writing online. But when I first started out, I was a horrible writer. So I spent 1,000+ hours studying how to write...
Given that I have built two companies in widely different fields to trillion dollar plus valuations simultaneously, I am might be getting a few things right once in a while
Most founders chase growth the wrong way. They add products, hire fast, and enter new markets without a plan. There are 15 proven paths: organic growth, market penetration, product development, outsourcing, acquisitions, and more. The fastest wins often come from two moves: improve...
I'm writing $20-$50k checks into American Dynamism startups. If you're working on something important that helps America and its allies, lmk.
✨ To prove my friend @StevieZollo (who's visiting me in Brazil) you don't need an idea, or even a lot of time these days to ship a little app that might make money I took the top idea from https://t.co/WNLj4eGmaq: "A startup...
Founders who are great at going direct tend to also be great at earned media…. it’s a complement, not a trade-off
I’ve seen founders cross $100K months and feel more trapped than they did at $20K. Revenue scales faster than structure if you’re not building systems that can run without you.
People assume younger founders have an AI advantage. They don’t. Experience is the multiplier. When you pair 20+ years of business judgment with AI’s speed and scale, the result isn’t incremental. It’s exponential. I started at 68. The AI Business Lab® Mastermind...
If you can save people money or make them money, you’re going to have a great business.
An important reminder if you work for a family office or just a HNWI and you've done a wonderful job allocating their capital across various asset classes: fixed income, real estate, public equities, PE, venture capital, private credit, commodities, and traditional...
Entrepreneurs: STOP valuing your company at $10M+ with $0 in revenue. VCs aren’t buying this sh*t 🥱
Midjourney Is Profitable and Chasing Hardware Dreams. But Can It Survive Google? The competition around founder David Holz has intensified, and his plans greatly exceed his initial creation, an AI image-making tool beloved by artists. He may even have to do...
I am proud to publish my personal stack but the coolest thing I have enjoyed so far is getting direct feedback from thousands of others who tell me what they want And I can launch a fix that same day. Or...
Practicing your sales pitch is excellent. (Raising money is a sales pitch too.) But, if done in isolation, you end up with a compact and complete case… that might not resonate with actual customers. Expositions must be iterated with the audience, not...

#TimTalk - How can a founder distinguish between a “growth opportunity” and a “distraction in disguise”? with Jad Atwe https://t.co/qbSSvZj1IH via @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesLeader #Leadership #Culture #Marketing #Success #Mindset #Entrepreneur #Management
A founder shipped a healthcare platform - 400 users, 50 paying customers, 100% built with AI. Engineers keep telling her it's not possible. I've heard this one before. Four times, actually. https://t.co/M3jJ1HZ9e6
Founders: Pilot-to-paid conversion framework: 1. Weekly success metric reviews 2. Bi-weekly stakeholder updates 3. End-user feedback collection 4. ROI calculation at day 20 5. Transition meeting day 25 Structure = 80% conversion.
A pattern I’ve noticed: there are founders who push vs founders who design systems. The first group stays busy. the second group builds something that survives them and creates true freedom.
Spending today walking up to people coding in coffee shops to ask why they’re by themselves maxxing in case they turn out to be founders

Another storytelling advantage for early stage startups: they can afford to embrace the inherent uncertainty of this era (and become more credible in the process). https://t.co/uT6MxANvWJ
Sherwood Callaway (@shcallaway) is a second-time YC founder building @sazabi, an AI-native observability platform that helps engineers understand and fix production issues using AI. After years debugging production systems at companies like Brex, and building and exiting his first startup, he...
I watched hundreds of people sign up for my product and then completely disappear. It was entirely my fault. Let me back up. I read 10x is Easier Than 2x and decided that software would be my growth strategy. So I built NoteGo. And...
Do you practice your pitch with friendlies first? Practice your pitch rigorously, rehearsing it multiple times in early meetings with friendly investors. This not only boosts your confidence but also allows you to fine-tune your delivery for maximum impact.

Most businesses feature fixed expenses that need to be paid whether or not they serve a customer. Buying vs Starting a Business https://t.co/W5E0qQGk0q https://t.co/aAKERkVobl
How do you know when it's time to take a leap? I did exactly that when I left The Huffington Post (@HuffPost) in 2016 to found @Thrive Global, helping people adopt healthy habits that drive better health outcomes, engagement, and productivity — one...

Obviously, I have set up alerting for "Podscan" on Podscan itself. And I love how podcasters are starting to mention the platform along with the massive incumbents like Apple. This one just came in. Took 2 years to get to this...
What’s changing is how we evaluate startups. The old metrics around headcount and capital are being rewritten in real time. https://t.co/ZtzGkZRjgM

A guy in Hampton built a $5M/year tax software company with his wife as co-founder. @ChKashifAli studied accounting and worked as a journalist for 6 years (including at the WSJ). Then he taught himself to code and worked at Adobe for 3...

In the 2010s, Wish took over the internet. Its founder turned down a ten billion offer from Amazon at the peak of the hype. Then the strange ads kept growing while the losses buried the company. Now the stock is...