Will do this without charging any fees as a Qualified Intermediary. But to be fair we don’t charge anyone fees at Deferred.com

A weird signal for product market fit is that the product is so good your target customer is skeptical about it. It feels “too good to be true”.

Got what was clearly an automated AI response from Replit ⠕ support. Basically was 4 ways to sidestep the problem & punt the issue back to me as the user. Incredibly frustrating. The future is apparently recreating phone trees via Email and gatekeeping support.

Common knowledge that start ups are hard - super volatile with higher highs and lower lows. But the thing that always surprises me is how often the high and the low hit at the same time, frequently on the same day!

Today, Highbeam launched the first finance agents for consumer brands—here is why I believe that vertical, expert agents are now ready to transform how finance teams operate. Finance teams spend most of their time managing a web of point solutions and spreadsheets. That

Hearing about someone’s conversation with chatGPT is the modern equivalent of having to hear about someone’s dream they had last night

It’s crazy to me the gap between Fivetran’s technical support (maybe the best I’ve seen) and account management. I’ve never had so many billing issues and team confusion cause me so many headaches

Pretty clear that ChatGPT, Perplexity, Grok, and the other LLMs are going to be the next big customer acquisition channels. We’re in the “if you figure it out don’t tell anyone” land grab phase of answer engine optimization.

When a non-technical founder wants to build an “in person” engineering team anywhere other than SF, NY, or LA, it’s probably because of this. Really hard to manage software teams when you don’t understand the leading indicators… But talking to them all day kills velocity!

1/ America cannot compete with China without building America's Shenzen – a place to build drones, ships, robots, and everything else cutting edge. Where? On California Forever's 100 square miles in Solano, 60 miles north of SF/Silicon Valley, where we invent that stuff. Here's why. 🧵

When using a new product or SaaS tool, it’s crazy how much easier it is to have a deep research agent write a custom guide vs trying to wade thru the muck of someone’s API docs, onboarding guides, etc. AI-native “docs on demand” should be the new baseline

Real idea guy energy to start with the name & no content or platform or even tagline

There are few things more satisfying than building a tool for yourself. Especially when you use it and it’s awesome.

We need a word that describes the joy of forgetting something, like the plot of a good book, so you can experience it with fresh eye