Founders: Be so expert in your market that your prospects reach out to you for professional advice.

I highly recommend any founders or product people to take Shreyas Doshi's "Improving Your Product Sense" course. Given I have followed his writings very closely and I work at Stripe where his product sense and strategy guides still live on. It was not only work it but a deal. He goes

I have made this mistake before. It's lazy and ineffective. 100% start with pain point.

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This may be the most inspiring sentence I've ever read. Which is interesting because it's not phrased in the way things meant to be inspiring usually are.

It is very difficult to overestimate the impact Y Combinator has had on technology and therefore on the world. Very likely an order of magnitude more than what anyone’s highest estimate would be.

"Oh yeah? Well, I'm going to tax MY people when they buy stuff from YOUR people!"

Overheard from a YC founder: "Whenever a new frontier model comes out, a subset of the batch's products just start working and they takeoff. Many of us are keeping burn rate low, kind of just waiting" Hoping that o3-mini unlocked the takeoff moment for some startups last week!

YC is funding undergraduate computer science and engineering students for summer grants this year: $20,000 in cash and $90,000 in compute credits and automatic invite to AI Startup School Apply now ycombinator.com/blog/summer-fe…

"Now I know harm reduction is simply hospice on city sidewalks."

[update] weekly signups for Supabase - much of the growth from AI Builders/Platforms we're primarily seeing: cursor; bolt; lovable; v0; codev; windsurf. many low-code builders from the past few years are now going all-in on AI

We should legalize supersonic flight in America! Could be done by Executive Order from @potus or The FAA ✈️ rule making. Make the regs based on decibels of sound that cause disturbance, not speed limits. No better symbol of American dynamism.

Grace Brewster Hopper was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming. She developed COBOL (1960), an early high-level programming language still in use today.

$0 to $100M ARR in X months is a vanity metric. Not saying all these fast growing AI products aren’t impressive, but that stat doesn’t say a whole lot more than explosive DAU metrics did in the pre-AI era. The underlying AI tech powering most of these products is pure magic and

The Democrats desperately need a new vision. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are offering one. thefp.com/p/ezra-klein-a…

Great startups don't get noticed by using tricks to get people's attention. They do it by making something so amazing that people tell their friends about it.

A great test for a great place to work is your best boomeranging back

So many founders making something people want. $$$

Woah, Jack Black 's mom was a bad ass!