Robleh talking to customers directly correlates with winning

high ambition means attempting what most people consider impossible. how impossible are your goals?

💪 Powering the future of agentic commerce!

It’s been hard to keep this quiet for sure. Glad to make this relationship X official finally.

This from Nat Friedman's (brilliant) personal website is a great explanation for why telling founders to go slow and take their time is terrible advice. There's no tradeoff between speed and quality for startups.

Evan Solomon Yes, Canada pioneered AI and played an outsized role on the academic side, but has underperformed on commercialization. Many such stories in Canadian history. My take: The best way to ensure Canadian AI success is a guarantee that government understands that the existing body

Founders sharing hard-earned lessons with new founders is what makes this community so powerful. Especially when each founder on stage started a 1Bn+ company — and afterwards is just a DM away. Co-founders of Segment, Clipboard Health, and Zip talking about their pivots tonite:

the next generation wants Canada to be the most prosperous country on earth.

This applies internally and externally. All new hires Cloudflare have a final call with someone on exec team like Matthew Prince 🌥, Michelle Zatlyn, and me hoping that after they start they'll will be comfortable to share both positive and negative feedback directly.

Great thread by Simon explaining how the GENIUS Act is doing for stablecoins what the Durbin Amendment did for neobanks. Stablecoins are becoming cash for the internet (every app becomes a fintech app...), and smart banks will build with them, not fight against them.

Pint with John Collison turned into a tour through agentic commerce, building better internal tools, stablecoins, and motorsports.

An open question was answered today - "what will the AI-native distribution channel be?" It looks like ChatGPT will be that channel with 800M active users + the Apps SDK. This is likely as important as Steve Jobs announcing the app store in March of 2008 ...

Insane prescience by our Department of Defence and the National Research Council of Canada to maintain this fab after Nortel. To leverage this asset for prosperity, we must ensure it is properly managed for commercialization while continuing to benefit public interests. As we’re

💯 yes. “We must build more companies and export products to make Canada better.”

In summer 2016, Farhan and I went for a walk and he told me something that has stayed with me forever: "Find the smartest people you can work with and work there. Everything else will follow"

If anyone needs convincing of the importance of the capital markets….turns out the ticker tape was invented more than a decade before the lightbulb. per Andrew Ross Sorkin recent post…seems without speculation we would be in the dark or burning whale oil. (Credit Colossus)

The YC community is better than I ever could’ve imagined. People love to shit on YC and act like we’re all like the loudest among us online, but thats not representative of the group. The willingness to help each other and the immediate connection when you meet another YC

An easy trick to get yourself and team members to ship faster is to remember that the first version is the worst it will ever be It only gets better over time. If you never ship, you can never improve.

This kid is heading to the World Series 🥹

CANADA'S TEAM IS GOING TO PLAY FOR A CHAMPIONSHIP! #WANTITALL