One thing I wish I realized earlier: There is no right way to build a company. For most people, you're better off structuring your company in a way that makes you want to work on it for a long time. The company is there to serve founders. Not the other way around.

Entrepreneurship: It's not a get-rich-quick scheme. It's a get-tough-quick scheme.

People want you to lose because it helps them justify the risks they chose not to take.

Losers give up when it gets hard. Winners show up when it gets hard.

Maybe we have a spending problem?

If you gave up being a founder because you were rejected from YC...they made the right call

4 out of 5 doctors can't answer an introductory statistics question Doctors are midwits maintaining a medieval guild system, not geniuses

There's a meme in VC that all founders have deep seated trauma / a "bug" that drives them to be successful. And if you fix the "bug", you "mess up" the founder. IMO this stereotype is both demeaning to founders + discouraging of personal growth 🤷‍♂️

I'm seeing more founders put together "investment memos" as fundraising material. It's a good idea. But too many of them read like book report summaries. Founders if you are going to write a memo, make sure it reads like a thesis: 1) How you developed your thesis: the way you

Gonna wade into the ayahuasca debate here, since I’ve had a “supervised trip”…my belief is similar to the below and that if you can handle it, doing something like ayahuasca, kambo, LSD, etc. is fine once but most people doing it are doing it to seek a vague idea of “healing”

Unsurprisingly, it’s always the people who don’t do things who dunk on people who do things

Pranesh Umashankar You’re not insane. What’s insane is that we spent over $200B a year subsidizing home ownership and are culturally inoculated to thing renters are subhuman.

Swedish Central Bank cuts rates by 25 bps…the global easing begins

twitter/X as a platform now fills a massive need in society: - it leaves very little doubt that the even the billionaires among us could be seriously retarded.

TIL Commodore (og Video Game company) was founded by a holocaust survivor

Companies that acqui-hire small startups should start disclosing what certain VC firms do, at the finish line, to shiv the founders for a few bucks after things didn't work out. It would shock you. And it's always exactly the firms you'd expect.

Just found this awesome paper biomimicry-maxxing a robotic forearm. If you've ever stared at your arm rotating your hand back and forth wondering how tf two solid bones rotate 270 degrees, this is for you