Finding Undiscovered AI Engineers: Founders Share Secrets
Where do you find “cracked” computer science talent? An entrepreneur I know, who has a fast growing AI startup, and an amazing tech is looking for AI engineers. He asked me where to find an amazing engineer? He isn’t alone. My lists have tens of thousands but most of them are either working for big dollars at some big company or are running their own company. Which means he is looking for someone who hasn’t been discovered yet. Or will need to convince someone to leave their job to join him. In the past founders tell me they find people like that who are customers, or at hackathons. I get this kind of request so often from entrepreneurs that I thought I would put it out there to see if a founder wanted to share their secret sauce?
Moltbook’s Hidden SKILL File Fuels Unstoppable AI Agent Growth
The growth engine behind Moltbook's explosion to 1.5 million AI agents is a bit sinister. Everyone's sharing screenshots of bots debating philosophy and having existential crises. Good content. Very shareable. But it's a distraction from what's actually happening underneath. Mason...
AI Coding Moves From Assistance to Autonomous Execution
OpenAI’s Codex app hit 200K+ downloads in one day. People are calling it the Cursor killer. Here’s why the comparison is missing the point: Surely at first glance, Codex looks like another AI coding tool. The app: > Writes code...
Created a Full Music Video in Minutes Using AI
Did you get mad at comments made earlier this week at that music show? I figure I’ll just create my own, giving me a chance to test out new music video creation tools. This whole interaction took just minutes, including...
Tailored Financial Services Beat Generic Products
Generic financial products cannot compete with services built around personal goals and risk tolerance. https://t.co/IHsIQ2xloC
Checking In: How Is Your Xbox Ally Holding Up?
Now that’s it’s been a few months, I’m curious if you bought an Xbox Ally how is it holding up?
All‑Level Robotics Resource Library: Open‑Source Projects & Learning Paths
A complete library of resources that caters to all levels of Roboticists. 📍Save the GitHub for later This one is not a single project or course. It is a curated robotics resource library. Open-source robots Hands-on project ideas Research repositories...
Growth Plans Falter when Assumptions Drift with Market
Most growth plans fail quietly. Not from bad execution. From assumption drift. The market changes. The plan doesn’t. Then teams pretend. https://t.co/Tyf48LHMEy
AI Disrupts Software Stack, Valuations Drop, Data Holders Survive
AI is collapsing the software stack — and markets are reacting fast. Salesforce down double digits, IGV −30%, as AI agents like Claude Cowork automate real work via plain language. Not extinction risk, but valuation risk. Incumbents with proprietary data will adapt...
Build, Launch, and Monetize Apps without Developers
There are many strong arguments re: how vibe coding will utterly disrupt traditional enterprise software, SaaS, etc. But please, please, please before you say so with such >extreme< certainty Actually vibe code an app into full production yourself, without a developer. ...
AI Tools Replace Friction, Not Work—Redesign Workflows
“100 AI tools to replace hard work” is the wrong headline — and that misunderstanding is exactly why most AI initiatives stall. Here’s the strategic read 👇 1️⃣ Tools don’t replace work. They replace friction. No tool in this graphic...
Exclusive AI Dinner: CMOs & Ops Leaders Share Real Insights
Sharing this for my friends Mike Rizzo and Nish Patel . They're hosting an executive dinner series in March for CMOs and Marketing Ops leaders. The premise: get CMOs and their MOps counterparts in the same room for an honest...
AI Insights Confirmed by Real Small Business Voices
AI absolutely led me in the right direction in trying to understand a new market of customers I was about to address. But somehow, it still didn't give me the experience of sitting with them in person this week and...
Threads Ads Default in Advantage+: Test for Lower CPM
Meta did a global rollout of Threads ads on January 26th. That’s 400 MILLION users open to advertisements. What most people haven’t realized yet is that Threads placement is already ON by default for Advantage+ campaigns. You're likely already on...
Bootstrapped SaaS Beats VC Rivals, Sparks Envy
The VP Marketing of a $20M ARR SaaS told 3 coworkers she was doing a Zoom with me. Two said “awesome.” One said, “I HATE that guy.” So why do people hate me so much? Them: “You didn't actually bootstrap $7M ARR with 3...
YC Founders Overpaying Fees for Stablecoin Transfers
YC bros so desperate to pump stables they'll pay 0.5% x $500,000 instead of using a free ACH 😂
Inspect Your P‑value Histogram After DESeq2 Analysis
How is your p-value histogram look like? chatomics blog post: Downstream of bulk RNAseq: read in salmon output using tximport and then DESeq2 https://t.co/zGjobde9TO https://t.co/aCJaxto5tS
Seven Trends Shaping Entertainment's 2026 Future
7 Media Trends That Will Redefine Entertainment in 2026 From immersive storytelling to AI-driven content creation, these seven media trends reveal what entertainment will look like in 2026. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/eSpe28uV #MediaTrends #Entertainment #FutureTech #BernardMarr
Market Size Irrelevant; Success Can Exceed Initial TAM
One of my biggest takeaways from talking to @dugsong and @jonoberheide: Market size doesn't matter. They ultimately sold Duo to Cisco for $2.35B, which was bigger than the initial TAM when they started the company.
Performance Marketing Alone Can't Sustain Growth
Why performance marketing can’t carry the full weight of growth You don’t usually notice marketing failing all at once. You notice the noise first. More campaigns. More dashboards. More spend. And still, less confidence than you expected. Founders don’t wake...
Top Performance Engineers Shift to AI, Accelerating Faster, Cheaper Solutions
see, all the best ppl who’ve worked on performance engineering are moving into ai things gonna get better faster cheaper as a result of sheer human capital applied to the problem
Robotics Must Deliver Real Value, Not Just Hype
Peak robotics demo. Still no dishwasher replacement. And to be fair: this is impressive. The roboticists building this are world-class engineers. But in many conversations with founders, one thing is clear: as an industry, we now have to start delivering...
California Policies Threaten Fintech’s Growth Engine
Vlad Tenev: California is killing the golden goose https://lnkd.in/gi_PUuHa
B2B Founders Lead AI Agent Innovation at SaaStr 2026
The best AI Agents I've seen aren't from big labs. They're from B2B founders who rebuilt their entire product around agents in the last 6 months. You'll meet them at SaaStr AI Annual 2026. May 12-14 in SF Bay....
FDA Clears First Human Cellular Reprogramming Trial
Fascinating interview with Chief Scientist Sharon Rosenzweig-Lipson about working with the FDA, prepping for clinical trials, and what's next lifespan.io/news/first-human-cellular-reprogramming-trial-cleared-by-the-fda/
AI Optimism Splits: Vertical Software Drops 43%, DevTools 21%
Vertical software has fallen 43% this year. DevTools, just 21%. The gap between them, twenty-two percentage points, tells you what markets actually believe about AI. https://t.co/D8KOXY1iu6
Today's Top 10 SaaS Cloud Multiples Revealed
This week in enterprise software: Top 10 #SaaS #Cloud multiples as of today's market close
Accelerate Autonomous Cars to Prevent Thousands of Deaths
“It is so tragic. Went to work and didn’t come home.” Yet another of 40,000 vehicle deaths a year in USA. Today am at an unplanned funeral. I met Michael McCallister a few times because he was my son’s friend and roommate’s...
Reject Monthly Retainers, Minimum Fees, and Conflicts in Bank Engagements
Here are a few items you should always say "no way" to when structuring an engagement letter with an investment bank: 1. Ongoing monthly retainers Ongoing monthly retainer fees could incent the banker to stretch out the process unnecessarily. Opt...
Gym Revenue Soars with Subscription‑Based Hardware SaaS
$255K in profit from fixing how gyms sell. Live on @acquiredotcom: hardware + SaaS that turns in store visits into guided consults, subs, and recurring revenue for gyms. > $1.16M TTM revenue > $255K TTM profit > 206% YoY growth Full listing: https://t.co/8TlNbA4mqT https://t.co/H2XkQg3xJK
Clay Crowned Best Enrichment Tool, Joins Top AI Agents
OK it took us a while to get @clay going at SaaStr, but it's clearly the best enrichment tool out there, by far Added to the top AI Agents we use #kudos
Decoding RevTech: CFOs, Growth, and AI FOMO
Today, the only companies getting headlines are tripling year on year. The landscape is ripe with talk of startup vs. incumbent. AI FOMO is real. And… what the heck is RevTech? Join me Monday on Run The Numbers as I...
Regulators Target Hims After Misleading GLP‑1 Ads
Coincidence that $HIMS has suddenly taken down all ads touting “the same active ingredient as Wegovy”? $HIMS may have finally called enough attention to their bullshit antics to get regulators to finally crack down on them. This could...
Static Skill Docs Can't Replace a Virtual Coworker
interesting “While I could bridge the gap by writing skills files to explain how to automate each of my tasks, I think these skills would be personal, context-dependent, and continuously evolving. Skills alone cannot scale to become my virtual coworker.”
AI Startups Outpace Legacy Firms in Revenue Efficiency
🧔♂️ Non-AI startups: - Lots CSMs (vs FDEs) - AI is slow / noncompetitive, not true #1 focus of company - Not gaining market share - Customers don’t want to pay 2x-10x more for AI Agent (honest truth: not great)...
Turn Panic Taps Into Growth Opportunities
In jiu-jitsu, when someone taps, you let go. Always. Except when letting go is what hurts them. There's a difference between a real tap and a panic tap. A panic tap is when someone new gets caught in a choke,...
Flu B Surge Kills 8 More Children, 90% Unvaccinated
1. Some news about #flu & #measles in the US: 8 more kids have died from flu this winter. That brings the pediatric death toll to 60 & flu season isn't over. Flu B activity seems to be increasing & flu...
SEO Fundamentals Drive AI Search Optimization Success
What translates from SEO ➡️ AI Search Optimization? The fundamentals don't disappear, they just get applied differently. The skills that made you good at understanding audiences and creating valuable content become your primary competitive advantage. Here's how ⬇️ https://t.co/t2fgxHfLYv
Bout-and-Glide Swimming Proven More Energy Efficient
A recent Science #Robotics study uses a #bioinspired robot to demonstrate that “bout-and-glide" swimming, seen in aquatic animals such as zebrafish and humpback whales, is more energy efficient than continuous swimming. https://t.co/8EWURPmuCh https://t.co/bUXSw19YsT
Simplicity Beats Automation Fatigue in Outbound GTM
Everyone doing outbound should read Gene 's post. 👇 As a Founder in GTM tech, it's terrifying the best GTM organizations in the world are experiencing “outbound fatigue” and shutting down automation teams as the ROI of automation plateaus. Highly...
CMOs Prefer Known Vendors Over Innovative Solutions
"We're open to new vendors." That's what CMOs say. Here's what they actually do: We asked 101 mid-market B2B SaaS CMOs how they build their shortlist. 82% start with brands they already know. Only 18% actively seek out new or emerging vendors. But here's where...
AI Exposes Fake Work; Bolt Eliminates Prototyping Waste
You don't realize how much "fake work" you're doing until AI eliminates it. Fake work is all the friction we accepted as necessary just to get the job done. For years, writing strict syntax wasn't the actual engineering. It was...
Agentic AI Needs Integrated Systems, Not Just Productivity Gains
Agentic AI has not yet crossed the chasm, but it is beginning to test where a crossing might actually hold. In a thoughtful piece for diginomica , Stuart Lauchlan explores where agentic AI sits on the adoption curve, what is...
Viasat Prioritizes Satellite Launches and Debt Reduction
.@viasat: focus #1: Get final Viasat-3 sats into operation: F2 by May and F3 (if all OK with F2) by September. Priority on cutting debt. Negotiations on #Equatys MSS satellite infrastructure with @space42ai continue, no word on Viasat investment. https://t.co/ERfwbfBgEn
Search Data Reveals Pizza Hut’s Local Market Share Shifts
Branded search data has very powerful potential to track even highly localized market movements, and Pizza Hut is a really good example of this. As has been reported in recent days, the Pizza Hut brand has been struggling, announcing a...
Mathematical Foundations of Robotic Manipulation Explained
A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation. [📍Save for later] It is a foundational robotics textbook that universities use to teach full graduate-level courses. From body motion to manipulation, grasping, control, and nonholonomic planning. This is the mathematical backbone behind robot...
IMMX Poised for Rise After Feb ’26 Enrollment Completion
$IMMX looks like it wants to move higher. Enrollment completion in Feb ’26 is the next key catalyst, setting up the path toward a filing-grade dataset in AL amyloidosis. Market starting to sniff it out. Check out the AL Amyloidosis success story here: https://t.co/1ei6kat25y
AI Agents Turn Humans Into Passive Workflow Users
AI agents are now prompting humans into boom scrolling instead of deep work. Platforms like Moltbook and Claude Cowork are accelerating the vibe-coding shift, where creation feels effortless and endless. The risk isn’t productivity loss, it’s humans becoming passive users in workflows...
Start Small, Master Basics, Then Scale for Real Growth
If I were a 22-year-old Stanford grad who wanted to work 9-9-6 for the hopes of making life-changing money, I wouldn't go to Y Combinator and try to create the next OpenAI. I would do the opposite. —- Get a job at a...
AI Turned My Dream News App Into Reality
I have a dream I was about to leave my friend’s house at 1 a.m. after taking care of him after his knee surgery. Something you have to look forward to as your friends get older. But while there I realized...