Sam Altman on luck

A good pitch makes VCs lean in. A good business makes them write the check.

To improve your product, talk to the people who bought. To improve your marketing, talk to the people who didn't.

Brian Armstrong shares the most important lesson from his startup failure before Coinbase After realizing he could make $60/hour tutoring as a college student, Brian and his roommate decided to build an online marketplace for tutors. They would match tutors with students and

Habakkuk 2:3

can't wait to get past this phase of my life, i need to see what all of this was for.

Remember when Coinbase was just a Bitcoin wallet Stripe was just an API Robinhood was just free trades Revolut was just a travel card Now they're infrastructure That's the power of first principles thinking in fintech

Clarity comes from action.

Co-founder and CEO of Stripe’s advice to ambitious people:

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This will change you.

If you’re a business owner, team leader or manager, this session is for you. Join us this Saturday at 11:00AM EAT as we explore how to unlock business growth with AI in simple, practical ways. 👉 Register here: bit.ly/4nxRJSD

Definitely worth a read!!!!!

What a weekend! 🎉 On Saturday, 19 people from 5 industries came together to turn AI into real results. We had folks from NGOs, fashion, research, legal & tourism. Our biggest takeaway? Most teams only use tools like ChatGPT for emails or captions, a limited way to use AI.

Everyone in the automation space is feeding you the same bullshit. "Go learn n8n from scratch" "Master Make" "Build 100 workflows to get good" Then you spend 6 months becoming a drag-and-drop wizard and can't sell a single fucking thing. Here's why: You can't drop an n8n

Just saw probably the coolest Halloween film made with AI today, insane stuff 🎃 It was created by Simon Meyer, who broke down the whole process: Veo3 for the core scenes, Nano Banana & Higgsfield Popcorn for the wide shots, close-ups and cutaways, Enhancor & Magnific for the

AI makes it so much easier to build. But here's the catch: everyone else has that same speed advantage. So you turn to distribution. But here’s the second catch: the channels you’ve long relied on for growth (virality, sales, SEO, ads) are increasingly becoming less

I’m obsessed with people who are obsessed. This is what true product obsession sounds like:

God done showed me too many times that he ain’t afraid to make an example outa me