If you are into reading drab documents and making sense out of them, you'd do well in fintech. 90% of the job is to just read random government regulations, payment network documents, and compliance requirements. eg both Brex and Stripe founders read a massive amount of drab.

Being willing to compete with the best is a minimum requirement to achieve success. Even if you fail, you have to be willing to compete with the best of the best. And believing that you can win.

Join millions who have switched to Grok.

How do you consistently seek out excellence to up their game is an important question.

There's a new way to do consulting businesses now. Never been easier to build an audience, relationships, and get a good consulting business off the ground. It's not going to be life changing money right away, but it'll be a good cash flow option. You don't need capital, you.

Acquisitions are tough and nerve wracking. You may start a few companies or see them up close, but you don't see many acquisitions. It's tough for founders to navigate these conversations. Acquisitions don't work like fundraising, most VCs don't know how to help their

Counterintuitively, managing is more important than before. The speed of startups and tech has exponentially increased in the last few years, with AI supercharging it. Now you need to manage faster shipping velocity, faster selling, faster hiring, faster fundraises, etc. All.

A word of caution for the AI induced constant distraction.

FSD's latest version is really bad in many ways. It feels like a step back. - it's super conservative in changing lanes and can't make up its mind - it starts to change the lane and then decides "just kidding", then the same thing again; even if there are no cars around; with.

If you’re hunting for good news here’s something: Talkspace therapy is covered by most insurance plans and the average copay is only $15 (but most covered members pay $0).

People used to aim for $5M to be happy. Post COVID it became $10M. Post AI, I'm hearing people think you need $25M to be happy. Things have gotten expensive. But massive inflation in the numbers needed to feel rich.

Google is going all offense on Microsoft. Potentially inking a deal with Apple, trying folks to migrate to Google Docs, pushing Gemini in everything, shipping a feature request in a month (CEO following up on completion), Waymo growing exponentially, etc. I think people

I can't shake this feeling that I'm behind in leveraging this new technology shift. It's a land grab right now, and most people are just worried about edge cases and not jumping on something that could change their life. You only get 1-2 of these technology S-curves in your.

Oh man, OpenAI paying insane salaries in India will create a storm.

I'm surprised that SBF is not the #1 VC on The Times list.

Google's Gen AI features have become really good. They figured out all the steps for transferring a UK entity to a US entity on Stripe and laid them out step by step. They explain the same steps as ChatGPT or others without fluff. I may use Google Search more now.

Founders don't need to think too much. The ideas are here. Your company needs to have 3 ingredients:.- AI.- Enterprise.- Old School (protected by regulations). Do whatever it takes to sell your AI products to them. Lock them in multi year contracts, continue to stay up to date.

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Some people entertain, others are just looking to get entertained. One of them make all the money.

Run towards bubbles as fast as possible. If you run faster than others, you will make more money than others. If you run towards it because FOMO, you will lose more money than others. Either run fast towards it, or stay on the sidelines.

An easy way to increase your valuation is to call yourself an AI-native company. Grow revenues quickly.

Startups are about making long term bets, not just current revenue. The revenue is just an indication of whether you are onto a new trend that will grow over the long term. But getting the trend right is the big thing that matters. Which some people call "market.".