Bench is now Mainstreet.
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We’re combining our tech and teams to give small businesses more power, speed and scale than ever before.
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Smart people don’t work for companies.
They work for people who are catalysts for their careers.
Find the leader who makes you uncomfortable in the best way.
The one who calls you out, levels you up and will 10x your career.
Unpopular opinion: I love when people decline offers.
Usually, they just don’t get what we’re building. And if you don’t see it don’t understand the product, the traction, or the direction...we’re better off without you.
Every “no” saves us from a misaligned hire who’d slow us down. A younger me might’ve tried to convince you.
Now? I don’t have time to explain the obvious.
Just know this: my goal is to make the equity you walked away from the most painful regret of your next decade.
LLMs are like Utilities
AI is electricity.
When the grid goes down, intelligence 'brownouts.' Just like when OpenAI crashes and half the internet stops working.
The AI infrastructure layer is where the real value will be captured as @JesseTinsley keeps telling me.
I joined Scale in early 2018 when we were ~15 people. Watching it grow into one of the most important AI infrastructure companies in the world has been wild.
I left to join another soon to be deca 🦄 (Coinbase but that’s another story).
Massive respect to Alex and the team!
The AI Gold Rush is Over.
If you're building another AI niche app... RIP.
You're already late. The opportunity window has closed.
The winners?
Not app devs. Not prompt bros.
The ones selling picks and shovels: compute, land, power, chips, water.
AI isn’t an opportunity anymore. It’s a utility. A toll road.
And if you're not owning the rails, you're just paying the toll.
We're not chasing hype.
We’re accumulating the infrastructure the hard, boring, cash-generating foundation of what’s next.
Real alpha doesn’t trend.
It hides in the systems everyone depends on.
More to come.
The next $100B empires won’t just be AI LLM's they’ll own the rails:
- Land
- Energy
- Servers
- Cooling
- Manufacturing
This is AI Infrastructure as a Service. Think cloud kitchens but for AGI. Build the stack, lease the system.
Office Politics = Incompetence Theater
If someone’s playing politics in your company, odds are they’re not adding value.
High performers don’t need drama.
They win on merit.
Real leaders make performance louder than politics and the games stop real quick.
I can tell if someone is going to make it working with me in less than ~2 weeks.
Most people simply don't want it bad enough.
Not anything wrong with that other than you joined the wrong company. There are moments to go all in and this is the biggest opportunity since 2008.
My episode on @goingpublic just crossed 30M+ views in under a week.
The most watched episode of all time.
No ads. No billboards. No celebrity collabs.
Just real business, real deals and a story people couldn’t scroll past.
If you missed it.. fix that 👇👇👇