Peter Thiel on pivoting and PayPal’s early failure “When we started PayPal, the initial product was an infrared-beaming device on Palm Pilots for sending money. It was voted one of the 10 worst business ideas in 1999. And 1999 was a year when there were many bad ideas in

Listen … talent, serendipity, moments and timing all matter … but let there be no confusion …. 99% of the people who “make it” or many of you aspire to be … are out working you .. are working much harder than you think when you don’t see them. Worth ethic matters friends ..

Roll up doors seems to be a popular item that the government secures from boring businesses

5 companies killing rn: 1. Fyxer AI adding $1m/week every week 2. HeyReach adding $1m every month 3. Instantly is at $80m ARR (prob $50m run-rate profit) 4. Deel hit $1b ARR. 5. Clay raised another $100m at $3.2b. study what they're doing & implement it for yourself.

This video is literally 50 entrepreneurs giving you an MBA in 18 minutes:

Next time someone says MicroStrategy is a Ponzi, play them this Saylor Thug Life Mic Drop moment 👀

Jeff Bezos on his favorite interview question “When I interview people, I ask them to give me an example of something they've invented. And I always point out, it doesn't have to be something that you actually took to the patent office. It could be a metric that you invented and

Leadership isn’t about perfection. It’s about showing up with intention, no matter how long the day has been. That’s been true through every chapter of my journey — from being in the service, launching companies and raising a family.

Stop selling like you need their money. Start selling like they need your help.

Instead of adding more features, do this: 1. Launch everywhere (Hacker News, Product Hunt, Reddit, X, LinkedIn, YouTube etc.). Spend a week giving your MVP its best shot. 2. (if #1 didn't take off) — Rebrand. New name, new logo, new design, new landing page, new headline. Same

I have a friend who was convinced his business was dying because he didn't have a COO. He was doing $3M in revenue. Good margins. But every time he tried to scale, the business would stall. So he started interviewing for this magical "integrator" who would take all the chaos

Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey Reveals The AI-Powered “Fury” Fighter Jet: “We were competing against Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and Boeing.” “And guess what… we beat all of them.” FIGHT UNFAIR. 🇺🇸

Jeff Bezos: “Thinking small is a self-fulfilling prophecy” Bezos is asked where he gets the confidence to even attempt to build companies of such massive scale, like Amazon and Blue Origin. He responds: “I think it’s generally human nature to overestimate risk and

Great post and inspiring story!

I did this before when my son was middle school. His friends still talk about 15 years later. It was effective.

What would you do when someone keeps stealing your content? I’ve taken the high road too long for all these fake gurus taking my ish! Looking for suggestions, no bad ideas apply!

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and they still managed to conquer half the world 🤯

And JC Penney and 50 other brands through ABG ownership / holdings

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth I don’t know who is targeting the 8(a) program, or why, but I’d guess it’s big defense contractors who stand to win big by portraying 8(a) as race-based DEI. Whoever it might be, they have misled Secretary Hegseth into a friendly fire scenario that will hurt rural voters and