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    Jul 15, 2025
    After @tobi published his now-famous AI memo, you probably saw similar posts from other founders and CEOs flood this platform. But most companies are still in the “memos and demos” phase — ambitious plans and mandates, “AI-first” roadmaps on board decks, flashy features and
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    Jul 24
    The NASA decadal is a report that outlines the highest scientific priorities for the next decade. When brothers @KaranKunjur and @neelkunjur were reading it, they wondered why no one was building the spacecraft necessary to actually achieve these missions. So they founded
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    Jun 5
    There’s no single archetype of someone who works at @AppliedInt. But most fall into one of three buckets: The domain specialists (like AV simulation PhDs), new talent (there’s always a big cohort of recent grads) and ex-founder or CTO types (they infuse the “startup” energy, even
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    Jun 3
    Applied Intuition has a practice called the culture table. Co-founders @qasar and Peter Ludwig, plus a few other leads (specifically, not managers) meet regularly to make sure manager bloat isn’t creeping in as the headcount has scaled past 1,000. Every six months, ICs score
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