Startups have extreme highs and brutal lows. For me, the clarity of what I'm building makes hard days survivable.

Resumes don’t build startups. Character does. I ask: 1) What’s the hardest problem you’ve ever solved? 2) What was your toughest life moment? 3) What are you obsessed with?

Early-stage startups require emotional resilience. I look for people who’ve been through something hard and grown from it. Adversity reveals depth.

Everything is energy. Do you even need the best model if you can just give a decent model more thinking budget? Whoever has abundant cheap energy wins.

We just passed React on GitHub stars. 🦞 Let that sink in. A personal AI assistant built by a lobster-obsessed Austrian and an army of crustacean enthusiasts just outstarred the library that powers half the internet. We shipped 90+ changes today. They shipped a conference.

Your intuition gets sharper the longer you build. Founders should train their taste as much as they track metrics. Data tells you what happened. Taste shapes what should exist.

$1.5M ARR in 2 weeks. Zero (human) teammates. Solo Founders Podcast is live with of Polsia, an AI that runs your company while you sleep. His solo founder rule: 80% AI, 20% taste. 0:00 — How "solo founder" has changed with AI 2:40 — Scoping and trusting AI agents

Fundraising doesn’t start when you open a round. It starts way before that. Build relationships now. Always define a next step. Ask what milestone unlocks investment. Then go execute and do it sooner and circle back.

Agents will be the biggest users of software. They’ll often need their own computers, identities, file systems, and tools to do their work. As a result, software will increasingly become API-first to be as useful to agents as they are to people. This is a huge opportunity.

True. Same thing happened to mathematicians when the calculator came along.

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Product builders — this workflow is insanely useful: Screenshot a UI problem Drop it into ChatGPT or Claude Describe what’s wrong Ask it to generate a Figma Make prompt Figma Make designs the fix Take that to Codex / Claude Code to implement Feels like design → build loop just

In honor of 50 years of Apple, we're sharing - for the first time ever - Don Valentine's original 1977 memo for Sequoia's investment into Apple Computer. #Apple50

50 years of Apple From the early days of the #iPod to bringing the #iPhone into the world, some of the most formative years of my career were spent there. The products and teams stay with you. But more importantly so does how Apple thinks. A few lessons that have held true

OpenAI just crossed $25B in annual revenue. Three years ago that number seemed impossible. We are so early.

ANTHROPIC HAS OFFICIALLY BANNED OPENCLAW USAGE!!! no this is not ai-generated Starting April 4, users will no longer be able to use their Claude Subscriptions for third-party harnesses including OpenClaw. THIS IS CRAZY. 👇

AIs using the browser is insanely inefficient my colleague Nimna created a claude skill for cowork to make it 800% faster - and open sourcing it comment “skillz” here and i will get you to browser-optimizer skill kicker: it even reverse-engineers any web app's hidden API in

"Tradclaw is the tradwife we all deserve."