Starlink Launches in São Tomé and Príncipe
Starlink now available in São Tomé and Príncipe 🇸🇹!
Choose Early B2B Clients Wisely; They Shape Your Future
One of the biggest decisions for a B2B startup is picking the right early clients. There is path dependency from those customers as you build your company for them. Selling to anyone who wants to buy can be dangerous.
ChatGPT Enters Red Code: Impact on Your Searches
ChatGPT declared in "red code" — What it means and how it affects your searcheas https://t.co/HkAFTHcVuZ #openai #ChatGPTdown #ChatGPT #redcode #LLMs @SpirosMargaris @PawlowskiMario @mvollmer1 @gvalan @ipfconline1 @LaurentAlaus @Shi4Tech @Fisher85M @kalydeoo @Ym78200 @Nicochan33 @chboursin @3itcom @Fabriziobustama @sallyeaves @helene_wpli @ahier @rwang0 @EvanKirstel @RLDI_Lamy...
AI Transforming Everyday Workplaces Across Industries
Ai in real world jobs https://t.co/ijr1aU871K
Stand Out: Unique POV Beats AI‑Generated Uniformity
AI made everyone a content creator… and everyone sound the same How do you win? Say something different. Something revelatory but true. You POV is your pitch
Decision Cadence Beats Co-Location: Design Remote Immediacy
The phrase captures something teams feel long before they can describe it. Early stage work depends on a level of shared pressure that only forms when people experience the same uncertainty at the same time. The speed of communication inside...
Sidekick Reveals Your Store's Top New Features via /Editions
By the way, Sidekick knows about all the 200 new features. So if you go to admin and do /editions it will tell you which of the features are most relevant to your store
Turn Speaking Gigs Into Six‑Figure Revenue Engine
This year, I’ve given 50 talks. How about a LinkedIn AMA? I’ve been a speaker since 2015, some years purely paid, some years a blend like 2025. How can I help your speaker journey? What can I answer to help...
OpenAI Hints at Upcoming GPT‑5.2 “Garlic” Model
[🚨 Gar-Leak Alert] @OpenAI just dropped a not-so-subtle nod to “Garlic”, the codename many believe ties to their next model. GPT-5.2 is expected tomorrow 👀 https://t.co/1ELYioSmih
AI Breakthroughs Hinge on Ever-Faster GPUs
Ilya in 2016 "Our advances depend on GPUs being fast." https://t.co/MBmV24kdEw
One-Click Script Moves
Rob's gifts keep coming. Move from Asana to Fizzy with the flip of a script. Aiming to get these migrations into Fizzy proper with UI and all, but for now, at least you can explore on your own.
Founder-CEO Traits that Attract Money, Talent, Customers
Here's the criteria I use to evaluate founder-CEOs: First principles Lovable Obsessive Chip on shoulder Knowledgable I do each of these on a scale of 1 to 10 after every pitch. Founders who rank high have money, talent, and customers "FLOCK" to them.
Autonomous Cars: Surveillance Concerns Meet Protective Benefits
When I did consumer research about attitudes toward autonomous vehicles I heard often "I don't want to drive a surveillance machine around." Yes you will. It will protect your interests in many ways. Like this.
Finding Purpose Fuels My Rapid Growth at Parloa
Two weeks into my journey at Parloa, and it has already been eventful. From my first board meeting, to connecting with the team, the experience has been filled with excitement and exponential growth. What truly resonates with me is the...
From Experiment to SaaS: Storybook’s 2026 Momentum
I didn't fully appreciate how good it would be to hit send on an email like this, and to see the spike in user activity that follows across such a wide variety of industries. As the year is coming to...
Sign Year-End Deals Only When Vendor Delivers Value
So I’m starting to get emails from sales reps I’ve interacted with over the past months trying to get a deal done by year end. The problem? They added zero value. There’s really no reason to sign a contract for...
ROSE Metric to Benchmark Public Companies' Efficiency FY27
The ROSE Metric is coming to public companies in FY27! Have you heard of DISE? Public companies must disclose Employee Expenses and Selling Expenses starting in FY27. This will be really interesting to compare the org efficiency of the large...
Founders Cash Out Millions While VCs Walk Away Empty
This does happen, but it’s almost unheard of for founders still running a company to make nothing in a material exit The acquirer wants the most consideration to go to the team, the least to the VCs A liquidation preference is hardly...
AI
The AI predictions are coming. Mine? Agents get more capable. And used. World Models become much more important. Robots will come out of the woodwork. And humanoids will go from goofy to smart enough that we will see humanoids working in many places. Generalized...
Pitch with Emotion, Recommend with Logic: Know the Difference
Are you pitching an idea or giving a recommendation? Knowing the difference between these two is CRITICAL for getting buy-in: A pitch requires a degree more emotion. A recommendation requires a degree more logic. A pitch: - Persuades stakeholders to invest in a new idea/project -...
Translate, Don’t Copy: Context Matters in Strategy
"We should do what [competitor] is doing" But your competitor has: - Different funding - Different team - Different stage - Different customers Copying their strategy without their context = wasted runway. The best founders don't copy, they translate. https://t.co/7bDC7My53I https://t.co/CywuwdIQAZ
Fix Tiny Pipeline Leaks for Rapid Growth
The biggest gains don't always come from new channels or big swings. They come from tightening the basics: • Clearer paths to book a demo • Targeting that filters out the wrong buyers • Offers that match where prospects are...
MindEval Introduces Multi‑Turn Benchmark for AI Therapy Evaluation
Important work from @SwordHealth and @VSwordH on how we evaluate AI for mental health. MindEval is a new multi turn benchmark that tests how models behave across full therapy like conversations, not just single replies. Much needed, rigorous, and open...
Agentic AI Makes Technology Adaptive, Collaborative, Problem‑Solving
Thanks to innovations such as Agentic AI, this year's technological developments point to a future in which technology will be more adaptable, collaborative and fundamental to solving global problems. Source @McKinsey_MGI Link https://t.co/NMZevjYhXJ via @antgrasso #AgenticAI https://t.co/nTKHEtsOEd
Daily Film Review Drives Scaling and AE Self‑Sourcing
In a recent episode of #TheScienceOfScaling , I interview Ron Gabrisko , the Founding #CRO of Databricks . He has scaled Databricks over a nine-year period (so far) from essentially $0 to $2.5 billion in ARR. Here are a few...
Unlock Snap Ads: Boost Reach with Proven Strategies
tomorrow I'm putting on a live event with Snapchat (and Snap advertisers) to talk all things Snap ads, Snap creator network, and what works to drive incremental reach on the channel. learn how the best performance marketers are leveraging Snap —...
Product Failures Stem From Ignoring Customers' Own Explanations
Every product mistake has the same root. Nobody stopped to study how customers explain their world.
B2B Branding Drives AI Search Visibility
Branding is definitely a big deal in B2B, even moreso for optimizing visibility in AI searches. Great conversation here between two outstanding #B2Bmarketing minds, @leeodden and @RishiPDave .
Slow Execution Signals Cultural Mistrust, Not Skill Gaps
Execution problems are often culture problems in disguise. If a team moves slowly, it is usually because people stop trusting the process, not because they lack skill.
YouTube Searches Double ChatGPT Sessions—Boost Marketing Effort
Just got some new data showing that YouTube gets ~2X more searches than ChatGPT gets prompt sessions, so... Maybe search marketers should put 2X as much energy into that? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (publishing hopefully next week)
AI Handles Low-Value Leads, Boosts Revenue by 15%
We deployed 20+ AI agents & replaced our entire SDR team. 60K hyper-personalized emails. 70% open rates on ghosted leads. 15% of London ticket revenue from AI alone. The 5 things that actually work: 1⃣AI crushes the work humans refuse to do...
LeapSpace Boosts AI Trust with Transparent, Expert‑Curated Answers
84% use AI, but only 22% trust it. LeapSpace adds transparency with referenced answers and Trust Cards. Curated by experts, including peer reviewers, Scopus CSAB and a new independent AI Advisory Board. Shows steps in real time. More in early...
Seed Funding Dominates San Francisco, Outpacing All Regions
check out this chart -- the majority of seed rounds go to startups in SF and NY (and really, mostly SF) (we'll be dropping a report on "the state of seed" from Carta tomorrow on our official substack) But it's data like...
Customer Problem Narratives Beat Extra Sprint
You can learn more about what to build by studying how customers explain their own problems than by running another sprint.
Data‑Cleaning Engineers: The Unsung Taste Makers Shaping AI
I'm seeing a range of new companies that were trained on very specific people. Those with taste. And taste could mean a dentist that does the best work, if you are building a system for them (I put up a video a...
Visualize Software as Aerodynamics: Trim the Drag
Version 1 is about making the most aerodynamic object you can. Eliminating all the little things that create drag. If your software was physical, how would it look in a wind tunnel? What would obviously be sticking out, ruining the...
Existing Customers Are the Real Growth Engine
"Don't wait until it's too late" / "Build it before you need it" - Alex Raymond on The Transaction . Alex has been focused on what he calls the growth department for years. Everyone knows you need it, but what...
AI Agents Will Power Corporate Automation by 2026
It is clear to me now that there are a range of new companies, like @agiopen_org that I put up this morning, and Scouts here, among others, that are making AI Agents far more capable than they have been. Major trend...
Advanced LLM Notebooks Offer Wizard-Level Tooling Beyond Fine‑Tuning
Here’s a goldmine of LLM notebooks and it goes way beyond basic fine-tuning 🤯 Auto evals, lazy merges, Franken MoEs, uncensoring techniques… real wizard-level tooling. Built by @maximelabonne and @iusztinpaul, authors of the excellent LLM Engineer’s Handbook. Repo in 🧵↓ https://t.co/VKT8uJpQwe
NanoGPT: First LLM Trained and Run in Space
nanoGPT - the first LLM to train and inference in space 🥹. It begins.
Google Confirms Continuous Minor Core Updates Cause Ranking Yo‑yo
Google updated its core updates documentation to say smaller core updates happen on an ongoing basis, so sites can improve without waiting for named updates. https://t.co/MD7IrswbMk via @MattGSouthern, @sejournal That explains why rankings often look like a yo-yo.🤔
Future LLMs Retroactively Grade Decade-Old Hacker News
Quick new post: Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight I took all the 930 frontpage Hacker News article+discussion of December 2015 and asked the GPT 5.1 Thinking API to do an in-hindsight analysis to identify the most/least prescient comments. This...
Enterprise AI Must Move From Tasks to Owning Outcomes
What’s the biggest barrier keeping AI from doing real work in the enterprise? I asked Rohan Vora at @glean in CXO Spice. We talked about: ✅ Why autonomy needs more than models ✅ How enterprise context unlocks outcomes ✅ Orchestrating across complex systems AI isn’t...
SMB SaaS Can Command Enterprise‑Level ARR Multiples
SaaS companies serving the SMB space are often overlooked as potential investment opportunities because, when compared to enterprise SaaS providers, these companies tend to have higher churn and less well-known (or even unknown) customers. Despite these relative weaknesses, if positioned...
AI Teammates Arrive: ChatGPT Launches Group Collaboration
🚨 New ChatGPT feature: group collaboration. Announced a few weeks ago and haven’t seen it in my feed yet. I really do think 2026 will be the year of the AI teammate. https://t.co/9mUDwJbuQz
Great Product Alone Won’t Attract Customers without Marketing
Friendly reminder that if you build a great product with zero marketing customers will not just randomly find your startup.
Listen Early: Market Defines Your Product Before Launch
If you listen closely enough, the market will outline your product for you. Most teams only start listening after it is too late.
Instant A/B Results with SimGym, No Rollout Wait
This is absolutely one of the craziest things that we have ever shipped. You can use rollouts to A/B test your new idea and wait some weeks for results… or just use SimGym to simulate your customer and get results...
Microservices Undermine Small Teams’ Shared Context
Microservices is the software industry’s most successful confidence scam. It convinces small teams that they are “thinking big” while systematically destroying their ability to move at all. It flatters ambition by weaponizing insecurity: if you’re not running a constellation of...
Instant 24/7 SaaS Support: Win Without New Features
Want to win in SaaS without having to ship another feature? Upgrade your quality almost instantly? Do true 24x7 support, real-time, for real, that's great It's like Magic No 4 hour ticket turn around No "go to our wiki" It's Magic .. because no one in...