Financial LLMs may follow the path of Specialized Shopping Search Engines: an initial wave of niche tools, ultimately replaced by a few dominant, versatile players. Consolidation is coming. #AI #LLM #Finance

Why Startup Founders Fail: (based on my own failures & 100+ founders in my network)

"World-class entrepreneurs are polymaths." - Peter Thiel

Elites (vs. elitism) "We can celebrate elite performance without being elitist" seths.blog/2024/12/elites…

Why Founder CEOs are (Probably) Better Than Hired Guns newsletter.datadrivenvc.io/p/why-founder-…

Scientists are no longer sure the Universe began with a bang "The beginning of time may remain, in the end, a mystery that we will never conclusively answer."– aeon.co/essays/scienti… via Aeon Magazine

I'm not sure people understand how important this is: Goldman Sachs CEO says that AI can draft 95% of an IPO prospectus “in minutes.” White collar jobs will go first.... and fast.

Harvard says AI tutors are better than Harvard professors. The students who used an AI tutor in a Harvard physics class (instead of the professor’s teaching) learned more than 2X as much. The best part? They did it in less time and were more motivated and engaged.

Trusting AI "You’re either going to work for an AI or have an AI work for you. Which would you prefer?" seths.blog/2025/01/trusti…

"After decades of practising psychotherapy, I believe it has little foundation in science and often causes harm" – aeon.co/essays/i-am-a-… via Aeon Magazine

“6 Lessons From The Rise and Fall of Teespring” by Nicholas Moryl nmoryl.com/6-lessons-from…

My product went viral on social media but all I got were these shitty users open.substack.com/pub/andrewchen…

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RIP to the 10th world champion, Boris Spassky, here looking over my shoulder at my match with Hübner in 1985. Boris was never above befriending and mentoring the next generation, especially those of us who, like him, didn’t fit comfortably into the Soviet machine. (He emigrated

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NVIDIA IS NOW WORTH MORE THAN... WELL, BASICALLY EVERYONE ELSE Nvidia’s $4T valuation isn’t just historic, it’s comically massive. It’s now worth more than Meta and Alphabet combined. More than Microsoft. More than Apple and Amazon together. At this point, Nvidia could

The Great Reckoning — What the West Should Learn From China theideasletter.org/essay/the-grea…

Just read that Starbucks lost $30B after hiring a McKinsey consultant as CEO. Guy spent his career advising founders how to build companies, but never built one himself. 17 months later, he’s gone. They bring in the Taco Bell CEO… and the market cap jumps $20B overnight. Turns

Determination predicts success by a mile

Wildly wrong predictions from a generation ago are laughable today downtownjoshbrown.com/p/the-war-is-o… vía @downtown