It's an uncomfortable thing to say, but every great company starts as one person seeing reality more clearly than most.

The biggest secret in building a billion-dollar company is that the best ideas look like bad ideas at first. If everyone agrees with you, you’re too late.

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Figuring out what a startup should say to investors is strangely useful for figuring out what it should actually do. Most people treat these questions as separate, but ideally they converge. If you can cook up a plausible plan to become huge, you should go ahead and do it.

Gold from Paul Graham: The persistent are attached to the goal. The obstinate are attached to their ideas about how to reach it. As I often say "be obstinate about your vision, be flexible about your tactics" . Obstinacy is a reflexive resistance to changing one's ideas. Persistent

First-time founders often feel like they’re failing,even when they’re crushing it. You’ve never done this before, so you’re learning on the fly and terrified of mistakes. Find another founder to mentor you and tell you the hard truths and the wins you can’t see.

Everyone needs to hear this…

New Let’s Actuate episode! Colton Cray Colton Cray, GP at litquidity Ventures on: respecting risk, customer-led growth, & earning real traction in frontier-tech markets. Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/7Gvh0W… Watch: youtu.be/1L4O_cefhrU #LetsActuate #VC #venturecapital #frontiertech

Let’s be real the future of venture and investing is a huge question mark. It’s certainly going to be very different than what got us here. Yet we all keep investing using the same basic model until there’s some clear new information. Who’s taking bets differently?

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cold 🥑 This whole framing is asking the wrong question. In a world where automation, AI, and geopolitical shocks are rewriting the labor map in real time, “safest path” doesn’t exist in the way it used to. The old upper-middle-class conveyor belts (law, medicine, engineering) are no

Latest Palantir store timeline ⬇️ 1. We’ve started shipping drop 000, the black and red software that dominates Ts. 2. Drop 001, the Navy software that dominates Ts + black and navy caps will start shipping out later in the week. 3. Drop 002 is this Thursday, August 14 at

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hot take: kindness is a wildly underrated founder skill. in the cult of asshole ceos, i'm glad ppl like dylan field and melanie perkins exist

The biggest difference between first-time and second-time founders? How they hire. First-timers hire fast and anyone that walks in, fire slow, tolerate low-impact or toxic people. Teams bloat fast. Second-timers obsess over the first 2–3 hires, raise the bar, keep the team

Some might miss the importance of this patent. Model the world as it truly is. This describes how in a single ontology object you can have a "plurality of data types," meaning one semantic object can have different types of data representing, in digital form, a reality that is

Two weeks ago, we launched The Metis List. Since then, we've spoken with many of you and have updated the ranking accordingly. 128 top AI researchers, ranked by their peers.

Great brands don’t just create pretty marketing, they create.. Movements. Cults. Verbs. Language. Here’s a list of the top 50 greatest brands of all time (in no particular order): 1. Apple 2. Palantir 3. DON’T DIE 4. GirlBoss 5. Rolls-Royce 6. Theranos 7. OpenAI 8. Uber 9. X

Find the people maniacally using your product in a way that it was not intended for. Follow them like crazy.

Solid baseline for understanding the framing and narrative to speak to - this applies for investors across the board. When speaking with an investor, firm, or program - understand their thesis, perspective, and values and communicate how your solution aligns with them. BUT,