🔥 “It is a poorly kept secret in Silicon Valley that companies ranging from Google to Meta to Twitter to Uber could achieve similar levels of revenue with far fewer people” via Brad Gerstner medium.com/@alt.cap/time-…

Choose your fighter $AAPL $MSFT $GOOG $AMZN

1995: PHP is dead, learn ColdFusion 2002: PHP is dead, learn ASP​.net 2003: PHP is dead, learn Django 2004: PHP is dead, learn Ruby on Rails 2010: PHP is dead, learn Flask 2011: PHP is dead, learn AngularJS 2016: PHP is dead, learn Next.js 2022: okay this is awkward

During boom periods CMOs take over and businesses play on offense. They focus on growth. During recessions, CFOs take over and businesses play on defense. They start to cut costs.

Which three, in order, will increase in value the most in five years? Remind me of this tweet in 5 years

This is because of the extreme pain hypergrowth comes with, how it pushes systems to be rewritten all the time. The opposite of hypergrowth is sensible and controlled growth where people have the time to grow with the company and their roles.

7 groundbreaking startups that will change the way you live by 2030: 1) Pipe Dream Labs 2) Spin Launch 3) Neuralink 4) Anduril 5) Levels 6) Skysafe 7) Interior AI

One serious way to help mitigate fraud as a VC: Always Talk To The CTO Yes, CTOs can mislead, too But they tend to be worse at it. And often are brutally direct. Every VC talks to the CEO. So few talk to the CTO.

most orgs don't have a CISO most orgs don't have a SOC most orgs don't have EDR most orgs don't have a Sec Team

On this day in 1996, Apple Computer announced its acquisition of NeXT Software.

It's so strange, because pretty much any SaaS allows to pay annually as well. In the worst case: you pay 12 times the amount. Usually you get a ~20% discount, reflecting that churn tends to happen over a year. I simply don't understand why streaming services don't offer annual.

Five Predictions for B2B SaaS and their impact on metrics in 2023 👇

This is probably the hardest text I have written but IT IS NEEDED. Happy for arguments for/against and discussions around details.

On this day in 1999, the world prepared for Y2K.

Dridex malware pops back up and turns its attention to macOS theregister.com/2023/01/06/dri…

What if ⁦1Password⁩ was breached? We should be asking this question of all password managers, here’s the answer: blog.1password.com/how-1password-…

The same app built in SwiftUI, React Native, and Flutter. All with the same Rive animations. Can you tell which is which? Poll in thread. Credit to Ashu, Lucas Lima and Meng To for the amazing work.

Part II: The failure points from $5m to $100m in ARR getpocket.com/@wSuFF/share/8…

Becoming an Essentialist getpocket.com/@wSuFF/share/8…

PREDICTION: There's a mass extinction event coming for early & mid-stage companies. Late '23 & '24 will make the '08 financial crisis look quaint for startups. Below I explain when, why & how it will start & offer *detailed advice to founders* on surviving the looming die-off. /1