AI tools do a very good job projecting false confidence and obfuscating source data. Be careful. Garbage in garbage out .

Stay small

Very excited about James Tamplin's new startup!

We are headed back to ZIRP. Act accordingly

We should be doing this at a national level with our immigration policy too

Most founders quit right before the breakthrough. David Gu from Recall.ai nailed something I see all the time: "Some things won't work until you've sunk 6 or 12 months into them." Three months building a product? That's not enough time to build anything

1/ Some sales tips for engineering founders: 1. Sales is a learned skill. But as an engineer it’s easy to want to procrastinate or avoid it. Make it your primary job for a few years and you will get good at it 🧵

True. It’s way easier to roll your own software now. Build is winning vs buy for simple point solutions This means startups need to focus on complex products that would be difficult to build internally, for markets that hate building. Tech startups as customers will become

Mercor (Mercor) scaled from $1-500M in revenue run rate in the last 17 months, making us the fastest growing company of all time. Our growth is accelerating. We averaged 11% week over week growth in July, 18% WoW growth in August, and 19% WoW growth in September. One trend

When billion-dollar valuations become founder traps. Jesse Zhang, CEO of Decagon.ai, shared a sobering perspective on today's AI funding environment that every founder should consider. VCs deploying capital into AI companies can afford to give inflated valuations

Adults should still play sports. I find it remarkable how few do. The same benefits that apply to kids continue for a lifetime. Learning how to win, how to play in a team, how to be a good sport, getting exercise, how to control your emotions - these lessons are evergreen.

Our government really doesn’t know how to deal with skilled immigration

Never use AI to apply for a job. It just makes you look and sound like everyone else.

Money destroys the trust that makes networking actually work. When you pay people for introductions, both parties enter conversations wondering if the connector has their best interests in mind or just wants to get paid. Andrew D'Souza, CEO & founder of Boardy, shares this