History is defined by top players pursuing good quests. Today, we are in a crisis. Silicon Valley's best — our top operators, exited founders, and investors — are almost all on bad quests. Trae Stephens and I write about quests in Pirate Wires piratewires.com/p/choose-good-…

One of the most under-appreciated parts of being a founder is how lonely it is Founders who are 10+ years in, will tell you almost no one who started with them is still around You start the journey alone and end it alone It's why founders bond so tightly with other founders

IN NEWS: Alex Danco joins a16z. "Writing is power transfer technology. As you write and read, it reshapes your brain and understanding. The writer can transfer some legitimacy to the reader, giving them power." "The job of a VC firm is to make founders powerful. Having an

The goal is to stay as low status as possible for as long as possible.

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Advice from Rockefeller: “Hire talent as found, not as needed”

AWS on planning their infrastructure buildout based on where usage is really coming from. Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman tells Matthew Berman at the end of the day, it comes from inference… it’s the customers using the end product. "It’s fun to talk about new model-building

We just launched ChatGPT Go in India, a new subscription tier that gives users in India more access to our most popular features: 10x higher message limits, 10x more image generations, 10x more file uploads, and 2x longer memory compared with our free tier. All for Rs. 399. 🇮🇳

🚀 We’re hiring a Machine Learning Scientist at Cartesian! Building on our exciting success, we’re looking for a PhD-level ML scientist to help spearhead our next product direction and support our rapidly scaling deployment. This is a high-impact role with room to grow — and

One of the most exciting things in Utah tech right now is Sandbox, built by Chris Crittenden and co Today they are announcing the Sandbox Fellowship: -12 intense months launching a venture-scale startup -It’s one location -100 fellows, -2,500+ hours of building -all while

Today, we’re officially announcing our Self-Driving System for Automotive — our L2++ ADAS product for passenger vehicles. 🚀 Meet the system under the hood: appliedintuition.com/blog/sds-for-a… #autonomousvehicles #vehicleintelligence #adas

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🧬 Dr. Mikael Dolsten is joining the @ChaiDiscovery board! In 15 years as @Pfizer's Chief Scientific Officer he: ⚛️ Progressed 150 molecules to clinical trials 💊 Delivered 36 approved medicines, from vaccines to cancer therapies

here is a list of 80+ folks looking for a co-founder leaving companies like - Robinhood - Brex - Ramp - Stripe - Mercury - Visa - Goldman & more if you're looking to start something and need a co-founder check it out! never a better time to build in fintech (link to list in

"From studying the outcome of past expeditions, he believed that those that burdened themselves with equipment to meet every contingency had fared much worse than those that had sacrificed total preparedness for speed."

Tobi Lütke: "Decision making is the easiest thing in the world. What isn't easy is finding the inputs."⁣ ⁣ Most people struggle with choosing. The real work is gathering context and knowing what to ignore.⁣ ⁣ Search for "Tobi Lütke on The Knowledge Project" to listen to this

PM is the new bottleneck. What a new cadence could look like: Mon: prototype. Tue: 10 user touches. Wed: ship cut A/B. Thu: decide. Fri: kill or double‑down. Run faster to get a higher chance at winning distribution before incumbents wake up. h/t Andrew Ng sarah guo // conviction

America's the best country in the world. But we need more founders working on real problems. If you're in the early stages of building something that actually matters, you have to be in El Segundo. 🇺🇸 Apply to the Fall Cohort in bio. Deadline August 31st.

O'Shaughnessy Ventures Backs 22 Innovators With $220,000 in Grant Funding prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

This is one of several reasons why "star performer at xyz hot company" very often does not transfer to star founder. People fall in love with the resume and a glittering references, without thinking about how different the sports are. Often the oddball at the hot co is the