Kamala Harris managed just 2% of the votes from her own voters and now she is their nominee. Politics in the US is pretty wild

The Life of a Marketer: - Talk CEO down from cancelling all brand spend - Schedule 27 cross-departmental meetings to get new project live - Defend marketing budget from finance - Explain to sales why we can't just "make it go viral" and "leads don't suck" - Craft perfect

Challenges for OpenAI - LLMs are being commoditized and Opensource models will be good enough for many use cases. OpenAI knew these hence making GPT4-o free. - There haven't been any major leaps between recent models to give them a huge edge - Enterprises still trying to find

OpenAI is a tough platform to build on. Perplexity is the most successful app built on their platform. It getting built into ChatGPT is a much better user experience. I don't see why you'd ever use Perplexity as a separate product.

Fascinating look at the upside of training with synthetic data

Google hiring Character.ai founding team is pretty wild Character.ai got a bunch of usage but doesn't seem to have a path to revenue growth if their founding team is willing to jump ship (for a pretty huge package)

The pain of marketing

Marketers turning up to take credit for closed-won deals

What is happening at the Olympics 🤣

This is how I see the value in AI for sales as well It can help with high velocity, low ACV sales motions that weren't scalable before

I made a 1970's inspired landing page for HubSpot CRM in 10 seconds using AI 😃

Some of the least effective managers are the most liked "Eliminate people manager roles. Leaders must operate at all levels, just like founders." I'd rate all managers based on this - ability to operate at all levels. Their ability to do the work, be in the weeds, drive

Being in the work is the only way to manage effectively

The least effective teams have one thing in common. They backchannel on Slack, complaining about one another. But, in meetings, they're all smiles and kool-aid. Create single slack channels per goal. All conversations around those goals happen in that slack channel, not

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Talking with Karim Atiyeh about this and realizing how thoughtful he is about choosing vendors made me change my behavior on how I do this. Speaking to the founder, going deep on capabilities, product roadmap, and differentiation of their solution are all things I didn't have

Hard agree

Incredible managers ... ... Manage the work, not the people. I truly believe they are the most effective people to put into leadership roles.