Speak Softly: Narrative Ads Win Over Fatigued Buyers
Your buyers are tired. They frequently see 80+ ads per day, so the solution is not to shout louder. Write like you’re the only one left whispering. • Anchor ads in narrative • Run “Story, Value, CTA” frameworks • Focus on their future rather than urgency • Use social proof from recent buyers in future creative The smartest brands show up like trusted voices and win by default.
Layered Outreach Beats List Burnout: Sequence Each Channel
Touchpoint stacking is an art. Brands tend to burn out their lists because they treat every send the same. Here’s how to re-layer your outbound: • SMS = scarcity ping • Paid = story and context • Organic = social proof loop • Email = long-form...
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Guard Your Focus: Turn It Into a Competitive Asset
Focus used to be a habit. Now it’s an asset that must be defended. AI constantly invites expansion. Founders who don’t guard focus end up running a portfolio instead of a company.
Nvidia's Nemotron‑3 Name Decodes Model Specs
Nvidia just dropped Nemotron‑3 — and yes, the names look complicated… but they actually tell a story. Take Nemotron‑3 Nano‑30B‑A3B‑FP8: • Nemotron‑3 → 3rd gen family, smarter + more efficient • Nano → smallest tier, optimized for deployment • 30B →...
Founders Need Q&A Practice—Try This Free Tool
🎙️ After years around startups, one thing stood out: founders spend weeks preparing pitch decks but rarely practice how they answer questions from investor or media. I built a small tool to help founders rehearse answers out loud and get...
ChatGPT Asks Replit to Build a Personalized Website
ChatGPT: “Based on what you know about me, make a website with @Replit”
AI Audio/Video Gear Now Affordable and Powerful
20 years ago when I worked at Microsoft a researcher showed me a new kind of microphone he built: an array of four microphones built into a box. It cost about $10,000 for him to build. Now @insta360’s new Wave, https://t.co/MokikgunUR an...
AI Platform Maps Gene Function at Scale, Redefining Drug Discovery
When I launched insitro , the goal was never to make one drug. If that had been the case, we could have used existing tools. Our goal was to change how drugs are made – and to do that, we...
AI Turns Ideas Into Apps—Join $10K Hackathon
I’m judging the #YouBuildChallenge hackathon (Dec 16–22). The premise is simple: describe what you want to build, and @YouWareAI turns it into a working app. $10K+ in prizes. YouWare is rethinking how software gets created—shifting from writing code to expressing creativity. Built by...
Founderpath to Deploy $5‑10M Before Christmas, Leading Startup Investor
everyone wants to close before Christmas. busy day at Founderpath today. we'll fund ~$5-10m more before holiday Founderpath is, by far, the most active investor in Software startups by deal count https://t.co/sU5DGqneOU
AI-Native B2B Firms Surge, Seat‑based SaaS Lag
The Great B2B Bifurcation of 2025 Palantir +142%. HubSpot -51%. Despite the fact both businesses end the year pretty strong. Some patterns from the top 25 B2B / SaaS public companies: What's working: 🔼AI-native infrastructure (Palantir, Cloudflare, MongoDB) 🔼Mission-critical + high switching costs (CrowdStrike, Palo...
AI‑filled Applications Boost Referrals; Network Now
AI slop in the job application process is only going to increase internal referrals processes and network effects. At least 50% of applications I receive are the same AI answers. To the applicant, they seem impressive and well thought out....
Metricable Integration Arriving Soon on Acquired.com
New @metricablecom integration coming to @acquiredotcom soon: https://t.co/Juquyki0zL
US and China Pursue Different Visions of the AGI Race
Excellent new episode of Your Undivided Attention exposing many more subtle differences between how the US and China think about the race for AGI , and whether they are even competing for the same thing.
Google Open Sources MCP Toolbox for AI‑Driven Databases
Google's MCP Toolbox for Databases is now open source 🔥 A single backend for connections, security, and schema-aware SQL tools, built for AI agents. Compatible with Python, JS, Go, LangChain, and more. Repo in 🧵 ↓ https://t.co/nd3rX7JpFH
Simplify Growth: Master Facebook, Google, Email First
Hot-take: Most companies / people over complicate their initial growth. Most brands can grow to $10M+/year with just Facebook, Google & Email. You don’t need dozens of sales channels. Focus on these and get really good at them before looking...
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Top CROs Have Already Built 2026 Teams
The best CROs have mostly recruited the teams they need for 2026 already Half the job is recruiting
AI Accelerates Customer Expectations—Adapt or Fall Behind
Customer expectations don’t stand still — they escalate. What made you successful yesterday may not keep you successful tomorrow. With AI reshaping the rules of the game, the success equation is changing faster than ever. How can you exceed customer...
Speed of Insight Delivery Determines Organizational Progress
Progress is constrained by how fast information moves. It has nothing to do with raw intelligence. Ambition does not fix it. Neither do longer hours. Information has to travel. It has to reach the people who can decide, and it...
Shopify Subscription App Generates Predictable $30K Monthly Profit
Recurring revenue is king. Live on @acquiredotcom: Shopify subscription app helping merchants turn one-time buyers into predictable monthly revenue. > $29K ARR > $32K TTM revenue > $30K TTM profit > 190 paying merchants Full listing: https://t.co/zCumfIm8mD https://t.co/wYOQ3FwbAz
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...
LinkedIn Reveals Essential Video Ad Tips
LinkedIn Shares Video Ad Tips [Infographic] https://t.co/gSRGhQg4r1
Email's Future: Replies Over Lists, Human Verification
Email needs more love in 2026. Simply having someone on an email list will no longer be the asset. And it won’t be open rate. What will matter is having someone willing to reply. Email stops functioning primarily as a...
Snapshot Engine Enables Reversible Actions for Coding Agents
Coding agents will make mistakes, so they must run on infrastructure that allows every action to be reversed. We built a snapshot engine to achieve this: https://t.co/gdetxGl5z7
Join Codex Team to Accelerate 100x Improvements
Codex is getting extremely good and will rapidly improve. If you want to help make it 100x better next year, the team is hiring. Crazy adventure guaranteed; success probable.
AI Chooses Cells for Costly Immunotherapy via Cellvoyant
ai to select which cells to use for preciously expensive and effective immunotherapy: meet @cellvoyant https://t.co/7SkTFo9QsX
Simplify LLM Scaling with OpenRouter, Avoid Model Chaos
I can be slow sometimes I didn't totally get why products like @OpenRouterAI are a big deal but this week I hit API issues with OpenAI and had to manually add a fallback to Anthropic. A real pain. And I also...
AI Prompting Threatens Microsoft Office's Relevance
Genspark's CEO says "just prompt it." My reaction? Microsoft Office is in trouble as more people discover the new way to work. They won't be going back.
Three Key Snapchat Trends Every CDO Must Know
As a Chief Digital Officer, 3 things jumped out to me in Snapchat for Business 's latest report. Let's unpack what you need to know before 2026 - ready? And, get the full Snapchat Generation report: https://lnkd.in/eBs4gESm #snapchatpartner
AI-Heavy Jobs Outpace Market in Growth, Wages
AI JOB LOSS HOAX EXPOSED According to a new study from Vanguard, the "occupations most exposed to AI automation are actually outperforming the rest of the labor market in terms of job growth and real wage increases." Job growth was up...
AI Models Now Impacting Cybersecurity with Real-World Vulnerabilities
Last week, a security researcher using our previous model found and disclosed a vulnerability in React that could lead to source code exposure. I believe these models will be a net win for cybersecurity, but we are in the 'real impact...
GPT‑5.2‑Codex Debuts for Agentic Coding Success
GPT-5.2-Codex launches today. It is trained specifically for agentic coding and terminal use, and people at OpenAI have been having great success with it.
2027 AI Race: Alignment Determines Humanity’s Future
🚨 From Agent-1 to Superintelligence: The AI 2027 Scenario The AI 2027 Report outlines one of the most thought-provoking trajectories for artificial intelligence: a rapid evolution from simple assistants (Agent-1) to autonomous, adversarially misaligned systems (Agent-4) and ultimately to Agent-5 —...
Own Problems, Propose Solutions, Accelerate Team Momentum
From my end-of-year reflections: if you bring a problem, be sure to bring a proposed solution. And no, it's not because leadership doesn't want to hear about the issues. It's actually the exact opposite... because the fastest way to lose...
Lenovo's Emily Ketchen Leverages AI to Market Unseen Products
How Lenovo's Emily Ketchen markets never-before-seen products in the age of AI https://t.co/2EvWMPwCKe
Nano Banana
Nano Banana Pro remains my favorite image generation model. Undoubtedly, 2026 will see more AI scams. And more revenue-generating AI influencers. Prompt: This woman is sitting on a white beanbag and laughing. She’s wearing a light pink cap, a black high necked crop...
Humans Savor “Food for Thought”—LLMs Lack Intrinsic Reward
I love the expression “food for thought” as a concrete, mysterious cognitive capability humans experience but LLMs have no equivalent for. Definition: “something worth thinking about or considering, like a mental meal that nourishes your mind with ideas, insights, or issues...
Google AI Leaders Review Year, Preview Future Innovations
Join us live on X at 1PM PST / 4PM EST to hear @JeffDean, @OriolVinyalsML, @NoamShazeer, and @OfficialLoganK reflect on our year in AI at Google, and explore what's coming next: https://t.co/DnhUg8YYoC
Keras 3.13 Introduces LiteRT Export and GPTQ Quantization
New Keras release: 3.13 🎉 Some major new features: • Model export to LiteRT (formerly TFLite) for mobile/edge • GPTQ quantization support for post-training compression • New Adaptive Pooling layers for dynamic architectures https://t.co/Ogmag7FYCY
Budget Limits, Not ROI, Often Stifle Brand Growth
Sometimes, the answer genuinely is that marketing doesn't have enough budget to do what the company is asking. It's not a popular answer to give, and there's even a tired cliche about how marketing always wants more money to spend,...
Training Turns Sales Rep Into Heart‑Driven Performer
Last week I had one of my most rewarding experiences of the year. Here's the story: A CEO came up to me after I had one of his sales reps in a 2-day training with me weeks before. Here's exactly...
Step-by-Step Roadmap to Production-Ready AI Agents
Everyone wants to “build AI agents.” Few have a clear path to learn them. 🧭🤖 This roadmap is a solid, no-fluff sequence for going from zero to production-grade agents: Level 1 — Foundations ✅ Python / TypeScript basics ✅ ML...
End-to-End Neural Network Enables Real-Time Bipedal Gait Control
This is a vertically integrated end to end deep neural network performing forward pass inference real-time, controlling individual actuator's torque output for bidpedal gait generation in adverse, GPS denied, envs. ok its standard PPO rl trained in mjlab, strapped to a...
AI Startups Bleed Revenue Due to Perfectionist Promises
The AI bubble is cracking. AI startups are losing 50% of their revenue within a year. A new report is circulating in VC circles, and the numbers are brutal. I just read Kyle Poyar ’s latest report, and one chart...
Prioritizing AEO/GEO Over Search Yields Near‑Zero ROI
Google's Danny Sullivan addressed questions about how to talk with clients amid changes related to #AI and search. https://t.co/jVWqEApg0n via @martinibuster, @sejournal "It absolutely makes zero sense to prioritize AEO/GEO over Google and Bing search at this point because the...
World Models Poised to Rival LLMs, General Intuition Leads
World models will be as important as LLM's. Next big market and General Intuition has the best data set for this...
Scale Faster: Hire Leaders Better Than Yourself
How do founders that have never done it before scale to $10m, $100m, $1B in ARR? They hire people better than them This is the mistake most Stretch VPs make. They don’t hire folks better & later more experienced than...