We are living in a timeline where a non-US company is keeping the original mission of OpenAI alive - truly open, frontier research that empowers all. It makes no sense. The most entertaining outcome is the most likely. DeepSeek-R1 not only open-sources a barrage of models but

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Tiny teams are the future: • Cursor: 0 to $100M ARR in 21 months w/ 20 people • Bolt: 0 to $20M ARR in 2 months w/ 15 people • Lovable: 0 to $10M ARR in 2 months w/ 15 people • Mercor: 0 to $50M ARR in 2 years w/ 30 people • ElevenLabs: 0 to $100M ARR in 2 years w/ 50 people

Jeff Bezos vs. Elon Musk in their early days:

YC startups that base themselves in the SF Bay Area after the program become unicorns at a rate of 2.5x those that move elsewhere The causation effect is definitely not zero. Your ambition, knowhow and access to people is a function of your environment.

On this day 11 years ago, we launched our second game, Transistor. To everyone who experienced Red's journey through Cloudbank, thank you!!

SEO is slowly losing its dominance. Welcome to GEO. In the age of ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude, Generative Engine Optimization is positioned to become the new playbook for brand visibility. It's not about gaming the algorithm — it's about being cited by it. The brands that

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I’m honored to be appointed by President Trump as the first Chief Design Officer of the United States of America.  (🧵) whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…