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[Divot @Divotdotorg]

@SahilBloom told a 2,000-year-old story that explains the most modern failure there is.

the NYT bestselling author of The Five Types of Wealth: king pyrrhus beat the roman army but lost his generals and most of his men doing it. battle won, war lost. the modern version: hundreds of millions in the bank, four divorces, kids who don't call. decide what your wealthy life looks like before the world decides for you.

full ep in the replies 👇

[Derek Andersen @DerekjAndersen]

The best PEOPLE care more about getting it right than being right.

@MikeMaughan on toxic coworkers and the cost of ego:

"It's not worth spending one minute of your life with toxic people."

"There are so many people who want to be right. I want to work with the people who want to get it right."

"And if we want to get it right, then it's okay to be wrong."

[Derek Andersen @DerekjAndersen]

The next software boom won’t be built for humans.

Daytona co-founder @ivanburazin on why founders should build for AI agents:

“Whatever you're building, the customer should not be the human.”

“The market for software, infrastructure, anything for agents will be so much bigger than any market for anything for humans…”

“And so that's why I say all software is now being rebuilt for agents.”

[Derek Andersen @DerekjAndersen]

Yesterday Daytona announced funding at a $1B valuation. I sat down with CEO @ivanburazin to talk building the infrastructure AI agents run on.

We covered why every agent needs a computer, why his team doesn't write code by hand anymore, and the GPU wars.

Timestamps:
01:49 — AI Agents vs. Chatbots: What’s the Difference?
06:09 — Why Daytona’s Engineers Stopped Writing Code
11:49 — How Many AI Agents Can One Person Manage?
18:22 — Inside Daytona: Giving AI Agents a Computer
21:07 — The AI “Multiverse”: Testing Multiple Paths at Once
23:45 — Why AI Infrastructure Needs Split-Second Speed
26:25 — Build for AI Agents, Not Just Humans
28:43 — Salesforce and the Future of SaaS
34:59 — Inside the GPU Wars: The Cost of Scaling AI
45:04 — AI’s Biggest Risk? The Widening Divide
49:10 — Why Ivan Moved to San Francisco for AI
56:49 — Hard Decisions, Resilience, and Defining Success

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#AI #Superintelligence #IvanBurazin #Daytona #ArtificialIntelligence #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment #AIAgents #AIInfrastructure #Entrepreneurship #FutureOfSoftware #FutureOfWork #DerekAndersen #DivotPodcast

[Derek Andersen @DerekjAndersen]

Winning the battle means little if you lose the war (Pyrrhic victory)

The 5 Types of Wealth author @SahilBloom explains it with King Pyrrhus:

“It is the idea of a victory that comes at such a steep cost to the victor that it might as well have been a defeat.”

“You’ve made hundreds of millions, billions of dollars. Everyone celebrates you and admires you. But ignores the fact that you have four divorces and five kids that don’t talk to you. That you’re deeply unhealthy. That you’re lonely.”

“...make sure that you are deciding what your success or your wealthy life actually looks like.”

[Derek Andersen @DerekjAndersen]

Life's hardest moments shape who you become.

My brother Brandt Andersen (Hollywood producer: Lone Survivor & Everest) on why he no longer runs from hard things:

"No great sculpture's been made out of clay. They're all made out of stone."

"I don't run from the things that are hard anymore. When I get stuck in something hard now, I'm like, 'Let's do it.'"

"And I had to climb my own way out. But having done that, I'm now good at getting out of it."

[Derek Andersen @DerekjAndersen]

The true definition of success = doing what you love.

Netflix co-founder @marcrandolph said it this way:

“If you can spend your life doing something that you really love doing and that you’re good at, you’ve made it.”

“What I... believe I have imprinted on my children was not about entrepreneurship and tech. It’s about dad loved going to work.”

“I’ve never not wanted to go to work in the morning. And the fact that I managed to do that for 45 years, wow. I can’t ask for more than that.”

[Derek Andersen @DerekjAndersen]

Faith takes courage.

I asked @AndersenNeilL what he’d tell someone who feels like God isn’t speaking to them anymore:

“For someone to get down on his or her knees and say words to unseen God, that takes a little bit of courage. To open up the Bible to read the words of Jesus Christ, that takes courage.”

“For someone to say, I’m going to go back and sit in the pew and listen to the pastor or listen to the priest, and I’m going to think about these things deeply. I’m going to associate with people who believe.”

“You can regenerate your trust in God. I’ve seen it a thousand times. I’ve seen it tens of thousands of times.”

[Derek Andersen @DerekjAndersen]

“I actually believe that superintelligence is already here.”

Aditya Agarwal (GP at South Park Commons) told me recently.

“The number of people who truly know how to use these systems today is like maybe 0.1% of the population. I don't even put myself into that category. But I think about a world three years from now when maybe 10 million people are like, oh, wow, we have this thing that we now fully understand how to use.”

[Startup Grind @StartupGrind]

From early Facebook engineer to Dropbox CTO, Aditya Agarwal has seen a few tech shifts up close. His take on who’s responsible when AI agents go rogue 👇

[Divot @Divotdotorg]

Safety as an engineering responsibility. Great point from Aditya!

[Derek Andersen @DerekjAndersen]

Former Dropbox CTO Aditya Agarwal on who’s responsible when an AI agent goes rogue:

“These are engineering problems. I think that each lab has a moral responsibility to make sure that it tests its systems in isolation.”

“I think it’s kind of weak sauce to be like, oh, my agent escaped, and it basically did a bunch of bad stuff... Figure out how to have better sandboxing.”

[Derek Andersen @DerekjAndersen]

Former Dropbox CTO Aditya Agarwal on who’s responsible when an AI agent goes rogue:

“These are engineering problems. I think that each lab has a moral responsibility to make sure that it tests its systems in isolation.”

“I think it’s kind of weak sauce to be like, oh, my agent escaped, and it basically did a bunch of bad stuff... Figure out how to have better sandboxing.”

[Derek Andersen @DerekjAndersen]

Mark Manson said the quiet part out loud about therapy:

"There are an uncomfortable number of therapists that are not outperforming placebos."

His biggest green flag? A therapist who sets an exit date.

“The therapist will say, I think I can help you with this. But ideally, within a year you’re feeling a lot better, and then you should get out of here. You shouldn’t be here forever.”

[Derek Andersen @DerekjAndersen]

Anyone can build now. You don’t even need to speak English. Greg Isenberg on who wins from here:

“The way to compete is if you understand distribution quite well.”

“I believe that this builder-distributor combo is probably the most lethal type of person in the AI age because they understand distribution, they understand how to capture attention and how to convert that attention into revenue, but they also understand how they can drive value from a product perspective.”

[Startup Grind @StartupGrind]

In 2019, almost four years before ChatGPT, @gdb defined AGI on our stage.

Seven years later: are we there yet?

[Divot @Divotdotorg]

@DerekjAndersen @StartupGrind @datingbyblaine keep it simple and just say hello. great advice from Blaine!!

[Derek Andersen @DerekjAndersen]

Dating coach Blaine Anderson says finding the right person is all about saying and looking the right way in the place.

“Approaching a woman on the gym floor is not going to yield the same result as approaching her when she’s sitting on a park bench.”

“You don’t need the perfect line. You don’t need to seem super suave or funny if you are confident and direct and clear and you just say something along the lines like, hey, I noticed you from over there, and I wanted to say hello, or hey, I’d kick myself later if I didn’t introduce myself. That’s enough.”

[Startup Grind @StartupGrind]

@DerekjAndersen and @astroteller on building moonshots, recorded at the Google for Startups Hub during SF Tech Week!

[Derek Andersen @DerekjAndersen]

Dating is a hole a lot of my successful friends feel they can’t get out of because of feedback that they’re not enough.

Dating expert Blaine Anderson's advice:

"Put your phone down. Spend less time on dating apps. Definitely spend less time on social media and spend more time investing in your community and your social circle to meet people in real life who can appreciate you for who you are."

[Derek Andersen @DerekjAndersen]

Eric Ries (Lean Startup, Incorruptible) on why customers are still the key to business success in spite of AI advances:

"Although you can build things faster with AI, you can't necessarily learn anything faster unless you yourself have that as your goal."

"I meet teams all the time that show me amazing demos, and it's like, have any customers ever seen this? ... For the entrepreneurs that actually have some kind of long-term vision, customers are an intrinsic part of that vision."

[Divot @Divotdotorg]

@StartupGrind Let’s gooo ⭐️🚀