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New post: AI is catalyzing a long-awaited enterprise software promise.
This shift from traditional SaaS to AI co-pilots and autopilots increases market sizes by 10x+ for startups.
- My feed is filled with “moving to x country”. Same stuff from a few weeks ago about CA and wildfires. Your state and country is not a freakin AirBnB to leave a one star review and move on. Toughen up, help fix this shit!
- This is Elon Musk’s true victory and we should all be grateful for it*AUTOMAKERS COMMIT TO SPEND $250B ON ELECTRIC CARS IN U.S.
- So $170B dropped in just two IPOs this week and assuming employees (excl founders) own 15%, that’s $25B+. Some large fraction of that is coming to new startups and philanthropy, maybe real estate too.
- The best investment of the past decade and likely a top ten return in VC history was made by a Latino immigrant (@ssubo) in Zoom. It was overlooked by everyone else. That’s what you get from hiring great people from diverse backgrounds folks. It’s not charity.
- Finding it hard to square the fact that it only took 2 days to create the vaccine and costs <$90B to give it to everyone on the planet and yet here we are, losing thousands/day after spending trillions, hoping it won’t mutate further and evade antibodies and start all over again.
- Fairly convinced frequent blood tests and micro tuning of the body is going to be a thing. It’s very expensive now ($thousands/quarter) so only folks with high stress and means do it, mostly CEOs. But the results seem undeniable and technology will eventually deflate the cost.
- PayPal produced a ton of great founders. Their rise is well chronicled. Twitter doesn’t get enough credit for producing an unusually high number of female execs and now investors. Don’t recall seeing this from any valley company before or after.
- It’s really cool that govt officials in Singapore are paid so well (upto $3M for the PM) and public service is a top choice for college grads. It’s quite unfortunate that we’ve glamorized being CEO of a 5 person company vs being Mayor of 2M people.
- Goals for tech should be people in 2070 saying - “I‘d rather be a peasant today than a king 50 yrs ago. They had dirty air, uncontrolled viruses, were dying prematurely and trapped on one planet. Things were awful.”
- I want to live in the alternate universe where Recode takes @balajis criticism seriously a month ago, does a full blown expose, rallies everyone to the cause, forces action, saves lives and wins a Pulitzer.
- Satoshi on Clubhouse with a voice modifier would be a game changer
- I’m fascinated with how many of the current big successes were pivots. Slack, Discord, Lyft etc It’s hard enough to execute on a good idea. Now imagine the first set of ideas not working, being nearly out of cash and having to race against time to find something that might.
