James Isilay
@JIsilay
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Founder and CEO of @Cognism Also angel investing......
Zurich, Switzerland
Joined November 2015
We selected @cursor_ai for our engineering team last week after running a pilot program. We introduced this AI tool with three goals in mind: Automate repetitive tasks Accelerate development cycles Empower our team to focus on innovation The pilot achieved the following: 31%
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We're giving away an 11-page guide titled: “How to clone your voice and make an agent in <10 minutes” (Like we did for Elon and Karan). It can call support to complain on your behalf, make reservations, prank your friends, etc. You also get $100 in free credits so you can play
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Sam Altman on how to identify founders who can build $10 billion companies “It’s difficult to hear an idea at the very early stage and say: ‘Yeah, this idea has what it takes to be a $10 billion company.’ However, I think you can, with practice, identify founders that have a
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As an EU AI startup you now need to read, understand and implement 144 pages of the EU AI Act, if you manage data another 88 pages of GDPR. There is no allowance for size of company. Before you can build a solution for your target customer you need to build to the regulations.
I'm from Berlin. Afghanistan gets better tech than Europeans now. It's not a joke. It's the result of 30 years of suffocating regulation. And now, the EU's new AI Act is about to make it 10x worse. Here's the tragic story of how the EU is killing our tech future 🧵:
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Mark Zuckerberg on the best advice Peter Thiel ever gave him “Peter was the person who told me this really pithy quote that, ‘In a world that’s changing so quickly, the biggest risk you can take is not taking any risk.’ And I really think that that is true.” Mark continues:
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Acknowledging failures begins with defining boundaries. Establish your families expectations in writing. Every wise man knows his family’s happiness is his business. I'm giving away the exact same contract my family uses! I’ll send it to you! For free! Just Like+Comment
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Deeply believe this is how leadership should work, unfortunately it is not the norm. Typically CEO support gets the label micromanaging - lets just solve the critical issues and move the business forward.
4. The "Musk Method" is revolutionizing leadership Andreessen has worked closely with Musk for years. His operating method is unlike any modern CEO: • Shows up weekly at each company • Identifies their biggest problem • Fixes it personally While others plan meetings about
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4. The "Musk Method" is revolutionizing leadership Andreessen has worked closely with Musk for years. His operating method is unlike any modern CEO: • Shows up weekly at each company • Identifies their biggest problem • Fixes it personally While others plan meetings about
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LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman: Founders have no work-life balance “I actually think founders have no balance… If I ever hear a founder talking about how ‘this is how I have a balanced life’ and so forth, they’re not committed to winning… The really great founders are like: ‘I
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this post was inspired by me not being able to try out Veo 2
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Introducing Willow, our new state-of-the-art quantum computing chip with a breakthrough that can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits, cracking a 30-year challenge in the field. In benchmark tests, Willow solved a standard computation in <5 mins that would
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Jack Dorsey on why building something for yourself can be better than trying to solve a problem When a 29 year old Jack Dorsey joined the podcasting startup Odeo, he soon learned that no one there really cared about podcasting either: “That was one of Odeo’s biggest failures.
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A British and London success story! Congratulations to Sasha Nathwani for his swim Last Swim which will have its world premiere at Berlin International Film Festival (@berlinale ) on February 16th and will have the honor of being the opening film for the generation 14plus. I am
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#filmfestivals 🆕@berlinale (15-25 February) unveils its Generation line-up. The 14plus competition will kick off with the world premiere of Sasha Nathwani's debut feature Last Swim & the Kplus strand with Soleen Yusef's Winners. 🎬 More here:
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A big thank you to all the team from Cognism that completed the 10 km Tough Mudder on Sunday for Ukraine charity Children of Heroes. To learn more about the charity visit : https://t.co/WPcbKTBaEO To donate for the event : https://t.co/mY0KgBTyxJ
#ukraine #charity
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Speaker at @podimconference today with @TatjanaZabasu on startup scaling. Loved the energy in Slovenia.
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Running the Edinburgh Half Marathon again! https://t.co/6TaKlY5hHi
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Very proud of the the team @Cognism for being selected by @Deloitte for the Technology Fast 50 https://t.co/Trqz5aqrUo
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Deloitte 2021 UK Fast 50 winners
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