Most interesting charts to me from Okta’s annual overview of the software industry. Quite a few standouts both ways, especially relative to last year.

Something I used to believe that I no longer believe. A great entrepreneur can create amazing value, even in the hardest of markets. Not true. Some markets are just really shit to be in. Even if they kinda work, opportunity cost of great entrepreneurs time is so high.

Theo Priestley Benedict Evans

For my very first company, I made the classic mistake of building a product and then figuring out distribution. It didn't work. Distribution is king.

It'll be twice as easy for him to sell tickets 🤑 People love controversy.

Reminds me of the great Blaise Pascal quote... "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."

I don’t even think you can be mad about this. Just genius.

What have I done?

WeWork with a $500m market cap after raising $22.2b in funding 😬 crunchbase.com/organization/w…

Me vs this contraption for the next 48-72hrs #iykyk

Day trading was a zero interest phenomenon

When you invent magic, there are no best practices

One of the best threads I’ve seen on product discovery. No matter the stage of your product or company, there’s something in here for you to apply to your product discovery rituals and artifacts

Who's gonna break it to them?

When you’re pre product market fit, intuition > data. Intuition takes you to the mountain, data gets you over it.

The perfect pitch doesn't exis....

Waiting for the Netflix Documentary about the poor soul who unraveled their family's web of lies while trying to pass the IRS' identity verification questions

Half the world talking about AGI and it still takes 5 to 10 days for me to be removed from an email list after I unsubscribe

2023 NFC CHAMPIONS

If we repurposed all the money spent on political text messages, we could give every American $1 million