Tony (Tony Fadell) thank you for writing Build! I got answers to so many questions about career, managing, building, and work in general (& life!). You intended to be a mentor to everyone that might not have a mentor and you have succeeded 🫡

Seems like we are going back to IE…

Wait a second… I’m 30 and I just started reading about Napoleon, Rome/ Byzantine, US civil war… I’m right in the discovery process ain’t I 😅😅 Ps. WW2 nailed already Pps. i also dig persian / asian history

Some features that are missing from business email clients (most of them are available in Slack): - Un-CC me from the thread - 👀 "looking at this" + ETA - 1-button to unsubscribe and/or reply "don't email me again with your BS" what else?

Interesting addition to SaaS pages 👀

- Our annual net revenue is 3x of what we raised since inception - Profitable (16% NI margin) - Growing fast even at this scale - Small team (150 people) - Massive, fragmented market Raising to grow even faster (& do M&A)!

Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) Iris COMMS OPEN (2/3) Вы/ж. р. 😂🤩 WE'RE SO BACK Levitatoors Alex Kaplan Prakash (Ate-a-Pi) Iris COMMS OPEN (2/3) Вы/ж. р.

One of the most simple and yet profound questions (inspired by Frank Slootman) a person can ask themselves in life, workplace, etc: Am I a passenger or a driver?

Can’t wait to see an independent report in 12months that shows that taxpayers money were spent to train an AI-Waifu

Buffet

Most often “smart” money VCs are not the value add ones - but just the ones getting out of the your way, wiring money and signing docs on time. The bar is extremely low

Kyoto is great, I want to move here… Top fav cities for living rn: London Copenhagen Kyoto

At this point the whole “what if Google builds this” can be flipped into a fund thesis: Copy widely used Google products as they will ultimately kill them off ☠️

Adam Neumann needs to redeem himself by buying WeWork after ch 11

In my 20s: I thought my bosses ran these precise, well-thought-out plans. Eventually, I saw behind the curtain. They were making it up as they went along. It was a liberating moment -- realizing we're all idiots.

7,5 million years to calculate meaning of life

That was it, the bull thesis

Works everytime 80% of the time

The tower has caught the rocket!!

When he catches you doing things that don’t scale