If you’re a first-time founder, this is what you signed up for. The investor who never replies. The customer who churns without warning. The teammate who quits two weeks before launch. The launch that flops. The week where nothing moves. And the question that creeps in quietly:

Good bye! I’ll remember the good times!

What Is Growth? open.substack.com/pub/seanellis/… Sean Ellis sharpening swords! ⚔️

Companies that invest in tools and infrastructure for constant experimentation also build robust risk management systems. It might seem counterintuitive, but this is exactly what will drive long-term growth. With each experiment, we learn more and more, compounding.

Failure is the process by which you find the team and learn the lessons that you will succeed with.

Roland Garros final today was that kind of game that we see all the value that sports can bring. Congratulations for the two great winners, Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz! What a game! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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When Google Cloud and Cloudflare come down, crazy things happen. 😱

And then I got accepted! Thank you Lovable shipped and Lovable.

I saw Cloudflare in trends, and god knows I thought that was down another time.

In my experience the only people who truly care about future adoption are growth PMs Everyone else is too biased

AI looking ahead. Powerful predictions here. Great reflections!

1/12 🧵 I've saved founders over $2 million using a 5-minute test that most people think is too simple to work. Steve almost lost $500,000 before running this test. Here's what happened (and the framework that saved him):

Here come a new job role from AI adoption. Wait to see in some listing in 3, 2, 1…

Trying out Blink.new to build up my very own customized workout tracker. > Supabase smoothly integrated (without security flaws) . > User auth built-in was a blast. > Code already at GitHub. > Built only with free credits. 🤯 Deployed at …cker-web-app-h9aprpxa.sites.blink.new

Terrible look for online sports gambling… Individual States are poorly run by Governors and State Houses with very little financial acumen. So they run deficits or miss allocate capital and then turn to simple, superficial ways to generate revenues like sports gambling. Turns

Next week in SF, we’re hosting a private, highly curated agenda for 13 ultra-high-net-worth tech leaders from Brazil 🇧🇷—founders & operators behind some of LATAM’s biggest outcomes. We’re looking to connect them with startups (or big tech folks) building solutions for

The feeling of deploying an AI agent "employee" is so strange. It's not like a system that you know how to operate; it's "live" and not fully predictable. Almost like a new human employee that you cheer for, and also take care to behave properly. Crazy times!

Totally agree.

Can relate to it. 🙌🏼