Never Again?

Today was a bad day for the pro-Palestine brigade. Their lies about the ‘poor, oppressed’ Palestinians also being victims of Hamas died before their eyes.

POV: You shed light on previously hidden areas of their business:

Bootstrap startup idea: Cursor/Windsurf, but for JetBrains IDEs. The current solutions I’ve tried (that I know of, at least) are terrible, and there’s a huge community of coders like me who can’t stand VSCode.

$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

A somewhat obvious and silly post, but email is an amazing protocol. You can just send messages to incredibly smart, high-profile people, and they’ll often reply with their thoughts. The level of access it provides is remarkable.

I still don't get why MCP exists and what it does differently than having an API. Yes, it's built "for AI specifically" but AI is already capable of using APIs. And we have tons of good protocols/frameworks already. Srsly, I can't be the only one here thinking this?

We’re building in voice AI. Honestly, it’s scary to be a smaller lab (not OAI, Google, or Meta). There’s nothing keeping us locked in. We swap them out the moment one model gets better. Not even sure what they could build that would keep us.

Doing some research: What are some forward-deployed startups or companies that made it, besides Palantir?

After getting pitched so often by vendors and investors these past few years: some sellers go cold the moment you say no or they sense you’re not in their ICP. It makes it feel *extra* transactional (yes, we’ll know it is), and they lose me right there. Applying this lesson to

Oh, snap. Need to make a video now, I guess? a16z speedrun 🧊

When you’re taking advice from someone you respect, it matters a lot that they can be blunt and to the point, no sugar coating. Otherwise, you risk wasting a lot of time going down the wrong path. Just had one of those moments with Binyamin grobman. Thanks man.

Founders, if you’re thinking about your startup in terms like ‘fair’ and ‘not fair’, you’re ngmi.

Raising money and getting married at the same time? Not my brightest idea

Nothing like a bit of geopolitical war games to season the stress of a wedding maybe happening

We’re on

The Iran/Israel war is a litmus test for whether someone is rational. I can understand how people believe Israel has gone too far in Gaza. I don't agree given the bombings/terrorism from Hamas, but I understand the argument. But with Iran (and specifically the current Islamist

This. 🇮🇱🇺🇸