POV: You bring your CTO of a 5-person startup to help close a deal with a Fortune 50 company.

Here’s why Volt is the next big Base alpha: ⚡ Instant liquidity – Borrow against your assets without selling conviction bags. 📈 Market-efficient rates – Lenders compete, borrowers get the best deals. 🔄 Zero liquidations – No forced sell-offs, just strategic flexibility.

Intelligence is on tap now so agency is even more important

Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are

If you're split between two paths, pick the one with the better story. At the end of your life, it's all your gonna have left anyways.

Pick the path with the better story

A second clip from my recent podcast with Chris Williamson . Full episode releases Monday.

Steve Jobs on how to run a company

Ghanaians looking at this

Transmission Start. Comfort is dead. Risk is law. Every 12 hours: Recon. Sabotage. Survive. Code Name: SPY INC. Objective: Outsmart the chain or be killed by it. First Intel drop in ████ Agents who hesitate won’t be remembered.

Man said Tik Tok 🤭 Legend

Everyone needs to hear this…

A lot of people's minds are getting warped by fake/juiced MRR numbers on here. So they think they "failed" and give up too early. It took me 5 months and 7 days to get to $1k MRR for Rephonic. It's now dramatically beyond that and by far my most successful endeavour. Also that

My AI investment thesis is that every AI application startup is likely to be crushed by rapid expansion of the foundational model providers. App functionality will be added to the foundational models' offerings, because the big players aren't slow incumbents (it is wrong to

James Currier on how he grew a photo sharing site to 47 million users in 6 months “Most product people start by saying, ‘There’s a problem and we’re going to build a product that’s going to solve that problem. Then we’re going to market it,” NFX founder James Currier observes.

“Geniuses only.” Nivi: To me, the missing ingredient in most people’s recruiting is intolerance. You should really just treat every employee in the company, including yourself, as an enemy agent that’s trying to destroy the company by bringing mediocre talent into the business.

If you’re a parent, watch this. It will stick with you forever.

A lot of software is about to get a lot better, right before it becomes unnecessary.

First trailer for the ‘HARRY POTTER’ series. Releasing this Christmas on HBO.