Nikita Bier this is the most satisfying public investing strategy. Also a startup idea somebody should build: like Affirm/AfterPay, but an offer to roll some portion of your purchase price at checkout into shares of the company you’re buying the product from. Consumers get ownership in

There are 3 Indias. 1% that can afford to enable Coldplay to make $50M on one tour (wonder how much was really spent what with travel, tickets in black etc) 80% living hand to mouth on rations. 19% thinking they belong to the 1%, but just one setback away from joining the 80%.

not gonna lie im on what has to be the 500th flight of my life right now and im getting pretty tired of walking by first class and going all the way to 52F i cant justify spending all that money on first class but if I do have the disposable money to spend on first class one

Word. This is my benchmark for being wealthy.

A year ago, I was stuck between grinding Leetcode to get a FAANG job or building my own product. Spent months solving mind-numbing Leetcode problems, got bored out of my mind, and said screw it, let’s build something. Fast forward 4 months: my product made 3x what FAANG would

Product management is the only role where everyone thinks they could do your job better. Why? Because everyone has an opinion and making decisions seems easy But there's a whole iceberg of work nobody sees: - running 47 customer interviews at 7am - analyzing data until your

At some point the meaning of ‘driving’ and ‘self-driving’ will invert.

Sundar Pichai You could do the most amazing thing right now. You own the IP and trademark…

I used to think Sapiens was a great book. Sweeping, provocative, the kind of book that makes you feel like you finally understand the big picture of human history. It's on every CEO's bookshelf, assigned in universities, praised as a masterwork of synthesis. Yuval Noah Harari is

Jensen Huang on the smartest person he's ever met;

I’ve been approached by several startups to join them and move to SF Honestly, I’d love to. On paper, SF has everything I want in a city - it’s walkable, has public transit, mild weather, and a lot of interesting people The problem - being able to afford family sized housing in

Matched with Tom Blomfield as my Product Soulmate We both identify as The Focused Experimenter. Tag them if they’d agree 👀 Who's yours? Take the quiz to find out: who-is-my-product-soulmate.netlify.app/share/tom_blom…

Even the best developer tools mostly still don't let you sign up for an account via API. This is a big miss in the claude code age because it means that claude can't sign up on its own. Putting all your account management functions in your API should be tablestakes now.

ai agents should be able to sign up on my behalf.

The sun was free. They sold you SPF 50 and a vitamin D deficiency. Sleep was free. They sold you an app, a pill, and a wearable that tells you your sleep was bad. Walking was free. They sold you a treadmill, a fitness tracker, and a £180 pair of trainers. Fasting was free.

i hate this page.

legendary run daringfireball.net/projects/markd…

One interesting thing about running a very modern AI product (@fin_ai) with 8,000 customers is that literally all of these users exist at the same time. And you kinda have to make it work for everyone.

I like this on a couple of levels, including “If you repeat this story frequently enough, you become a company staffed by people who care about this broad class of issues. They will refer to them as ‘ciobatta bread.’”

When I sit down at my computer and start typing, that's not the beginning of writing. It's the LAST step. 80% of the writing is already done. It just happened in my head. - Writing ≠ generating text - Building product ≠ writing PRDs - Designing ≠ making mockups - Engineering