Isaac Silverman
@IsSilver
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Founded & Sold Daydream (AI BI tool) Writing what I learned. Prev: @Uber, @Postmates, @Bloomnation, @Zynga
San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2008
Prediction: Edtech 2.0 includes a wave of "prestige" offerings featuring highly selective cohorts that learn together. Online education has potential to democratize the best education in human history but stigma and lack of accountability keep the category from realizing its
The dirty little secret of edtech: the biggest names donāt actually care if you learn anything. As co-founder of Udemy, it is something I reckon with every day⦠Duolingo - edtechās only decacorn, worth $14B. Brilliant app, addictive product, and great for motivation. But letās
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I think the purest form of love is just wanting someone to notice life with you. "taste this. look at that. hear this song." again and again. until you can't imagine noticing life without them
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Prediction: Paying $1M+ for top talent becomes normal as AI turns 10xers into 10,000xers. You donāt need many people. But the ones you have should be extraordinary.
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More companies will pay millions for top talent as AI turns 10xers into 10,000xers.
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The single most important skill you can learn: how to change the picture in your head. The second: how to change the picture in other peopleās heads.
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Demo storytelling: - What happens today - Why's it broken - What can you do now - Why's it matter All from the perspective of your audience, their top goals. Whether you're demoing internal or external.
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Here's a fun GPT 5 sequence - Ask it to estimate your IQ based on all your interactions - Ask why it thinks that, with examples - "What would someone even smarter than me do?" - "What's an example of each of these things grounded in our past conversations with what I do and what
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This is the era of the one man band. You can be sales, design, product, frontend eng, backend eng, marketing, and finance all at once. You donāt really need to raise. Progress has become permissionless. Thereās no stopping hungry, high agency people.
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Ira Glass has a great line about āthe gapā: theĀ painful void where your taste is miles ahead of your skill. You know what great looks like, but what youāre making is crap. Thatās the phase where most peopleĀ quit. With AI, the gap shrinks. Your taste becomes the primary tool.
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Turns out the honeymoon phase lasts forever when you pick the right partner.
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Ugh. The amount of time I spend waiting for AI to do a week of work in 4 mins is such a productivity killer.
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This is a good way to visualize the projected fiscal impact of the Big Beautiful Bill. It adds about a million dollars of extra spending per minute above the pre-BBB baseline.
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Your AI agent army isn't optional. Miss it and you're stuck at 1x. Here's the scale: - 1x = left behind - 10x = smart, networked, tool-savvy (the best people, until now) - 10,000x = shows up with a custom-built agent army. God mode. Your agent stack will follow you from job to
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