SEO is slowly losing its dominance. Welcome to GEO. In the age of ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude, Generative Engine Optimization is positioned to become the new playbook for brand visibility. It's not about gaming the algorithm — it's about being cited by it. The brands that

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"The battle between every startup and incumbent comes down to whether the startup can get the distribution before the incumbent can build the innovation."

maybe obvious but in the last few months i’ve met some very successful people that have been in silicon valley for a while and it’s made me realize how powerful the compounding effects are of being an honest and upstanding person for two decades at every turn people are a little

listening to acquired's episode on google and one of google initial business plan was to leverage their technology to build a search engine for the enterprise to search through their own documents. It's interesting because I believe that's what Glean does today.

Saturday well spent

you can pretty much hard reset your life by watching an entire mit opencourseware playlist

Motivation.

San Francisco is a gold rush town. There were fewer than 500 ppl in SF before the gold rush of ‘49. It’s in our DNA. As a result, it’s accepting of risk and variance, and brutal if you fail. And people who come seeking their fortune tend to see SF as a temporary waystop. A mine.

Love this!

Glad we've all come to our sense that nobody is vibe-coding a CRM. Here's my running list of remaining bear cases for SaaS that I've heard over the last few months: - Expansion revenue will go to AI-native apps who plug into the System of Record (SOR) instead of the SOR modules

After years of using Chrome and never switching from it as my default, Comet is now my default browser.

a healthy person will never discourage an obese person trying to work on themselves at the gym. it is always the ones sitting on their couch eating non stop junk who will. lesson in there.

You’ll close more deals finding reasons a deal is at risk than finding reasons a deal is a good fit

One thing that's been consistent in my user interviews is that people are looking for more substance, agency, and depth in the content they consume. There's more awareness around the fatigue caused by constantly consuming things that are trending, viral, super short format

Being an AI whiz is the new being an Excel whiz

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