Accelerationism is our Lisan al Gaib. The vibes for the next 10 years:

Home Depot is worth more than all the European start ups created in the past 50 years combined. Home Depot.

a16z founder Ben Horowitz explains how startup CEOs should think about delegation “You only get leverage if the person that you hire can do it better than you can. As long as you feel like you’re better than them at it, you’re just going to keep second guessing them and you’re

Marc Andreessen on what makes Elon impossible to compete with “I’m not aware of another CEO who operates the way he does.” Marc believes you have to go back in history to the industrialists of the late 1800s and early 1900s to find founders comparable to Elon Musk (e.g. Henry

- There's a ~0.5–2.5% chance that a venture backed company, at seed, will produce a unicorn outcome. According to Ilya Strebulaev: 0.5% According to AngelList: 2.5% According to: CB Insights: 1.28% - Most VCs are willing to admit they really can't predict which of their

When agent labor commoditizes, competition rises to higher level of abstraction (planning, orchestrating etc).

Frank Slootman is corporate David Goggins - I love it.

Pedro Franceschi explains why Brex doesn’t hire “people managers” anymore One day Brex founder Pedro Franceschi made a list of all of the leaders at the company who worked and didn’t work. “I was trying to find what was predictive of leadership success,” he explains. “A lot of

Keith Rabois on how to identify great talent “What you want to do with every single employee every single day is expand the scope of their responsibilities until it breaks… and that’s the role they should stay in.” Keith tells the story of giving an intern the task of getting

Airbnb founder Brian Chesky on how to design an amazing user experience “How do you make something for a million people? I don’t know where to start. But if you pick one person, study them, and take their journey, you can actually build something really personal. You can design

This is 100% my experience.

Peter Thiel on the importance of pitching your startup as a “discount to the future” Most founders will pitch their startup valuation as a sort of premium on the last round (e.g. “Our valuation last year was X, we’ve made Y progress, and now we deserve a valuation 2x greater.”)

This is a terrible way to run a company. “Everything is urgent” is just another way of saying “we don’t know what’s important.” Works for a startup of 5. Destroys a company of 500. Sounds great as a tweet, though!

Laws. Regulations. Rules. America has millions of them. Two thousand years ago, Tacitus saw the same disease. “The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.” It was a field report from inside an overextended empire, masking decline with paperwork and decrees. History

I think current US policy to try to contain China’s hegemonic rise until they possibly collapse from some internal mistake is in itself a possible mistake. Whatever would replace the CCP would be a more violent, nationalistic, majoritarian political system that will want to see

Everyone’s saying this is ‘super fucked up.’ But is it really worse than humans selling themselves online? I don’t like either. At least fewer people are wasting their lives doing it. The Kardashians & Instagram already broke our sense of what a normal life looks like. Now

“One of the best-kept secrets in the economics of regulation is how regulation's costs fall disproportionately on the poor. "Well-intentioned regulation often indulges the preferences of the wealthy," observes Creighton University professor Diana Thomas. By "driving up the prices