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SaaS & consumer entrepreneur and investor / Podcast host of The Crest
Joined February 2010
Interesting thought about continuous improvement. I do think there are true instances of disruption but continuous improvements still tends to be underrated.
Sequoia's Alfred Lin: Why 1% Compounding Beats a 10x Idea "I hear founders talk all the time about how they only want 10X ideas because those are the things that move the needle. And it turns out that just simply compounding 1% every single day moves the needle even more."
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If you’ve been following vibe-coded games over the last month (and have tried making one yourself), it should be abundantly obvious that we are very close to someone building a “creation” ecosystem—or App Store—where anyone can be a game developer. And success of the creators
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When it comes to brand creation, the long and steady route may be the best way to achieve iconic status. I was listening to the latest episode of @AcquiredFM which covered the history of @ROLEX over the week-end. It hit me that when it comes to brand building, sometimes the
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In these uncertain times, all you can do as an individual and leader is to keep pushing hard in the ways that are under your control. Say what you have to say. Join all the webinars and groups you need to. Post what you have to post. And then, get back to work. Don't get
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Congrats! Excited to see the progress at @NumeralTax
Excited to share that Numeral has raised an $18M Series A led by Benchmark! We started @NumeralTax two years ago to solve the nightmare that is sales tax for growing ecommerce brands. Simply put – sales tax was the last thing I wanted to think about when scaling my brands.
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Attended the first edition of the Rilla Masters which brought together hundreds of the top contractors in North America - to talk about sales coaching and business growth. The home services industry has been booming since the pandemic with a significant surge in demand but also
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Likely, the best place to build generational wealth in 2025 is... Not in SaaS Not in DTC Not in Agencies Not even in AI... But in the trades. There has been a significant growing trend of private equity firms investing in skilled-trade businesses, particularly plumbing,
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Excited about this one
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great take
Once you make 8 figures, you shouldn’t waste the rest of your life trying to get incrementally higher—like doing a b2b saas startup. Instead, you should be thinking of ways to piss off millions of people on the internet each day by launching controversial app concepts, for pure
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Management is about dealing with daily complexity - leadership is about creating simplicity. NZ needs to simplify its core Gov framework first - make it simple and streamlined. Then we can focus on being the best country in the world in those core areas. Everything else
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Big fan of perplexity and how they are carving out their own path.
Today we're open-sourcing R1 1776—a version of the DeepSeek R1 model that has been post-trained to provide uncensored, unbiased, and factual information.
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From $1 a day to $2B in revenue with no outside funding is crazy. I learnt about @NMowbray23 's story in a recent episode of @myfirstmilpod and it's well worth the listen especially if you are building a physical goods company.
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Seeking a driven Prompt Engineer to join the agentic revolution! Curiosity and fast learner are by far the most important criteria. Otherwise... - Experience in developing GenAI and LLM applications. - Experience interacting with GPT-4o or other foundational models (Claude,
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Perplexity Deep Research surpasses leading models in performance—scoring 93.9% accuracy on the SimpleQA benchmark.
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I remember when companies used to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on research papers from Gartner or Forrester... Never again
Introducing Deep Research on Perplexity. Deep Research lets you generate in-depth research reports on any topic. Available to everyone for free—up to 5 queries per day for non-subscribers and 500 queries per day for Pro users.
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Great resource if you're ever looking for standard legal docs like privacy policies, service agreements, etc.
builder-blueprints.com
The go-to document library for building the best companies with trust. This library was created by ex/ante and the Ford Foundation for founders who want to build the best company worthy of their...
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New colorways of Norda 001 and 002 are dropping tomorrow! Don't sleep on this one.
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And to follow-up on my previous post... Verticalized agents = AI solving a specific business problem It's ultimately the answer as to why AI will disrupt every industry. Whether it's crypto or AI, new technologies begin by sparking widespread optimism—almost like magic. But
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Love this. Absolutely in agreement that ultimately it's not about the technology but the job to be done.
"Verticalized agents" is a bit of a meme among startups right now—but rightly so: Over the last year, we indexed too far into AI being a Swiss army knife—jack of all trades and master of none. You simply cannot go wrong building something obsessively focused around a problem.
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Pretty impressive
new open source AI from China. ByteDance just dropped Goku AI, it can generate videos, voice and even characters with realistic lipsync.. 10 examples:
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