Harish

AI and Culture

[Harish @HarishMuk]

@signulll He can't stay true to his persona. The machine won't let him. Won't make it past the primary i'm afraid.

[Harish @HarishMuk]

@eastdakota Thank you for sharing. And all the founders who "made it" should share all of their VC horror stories here. Y'all already have FU money. Use it.

[Harish @HarishMuk]

@GJarrosson Agree with the sentiment but $5m in 5 years is not a lot.

[Harish @HarishMuk]

@burkov Claude is better than any other model. They got the enterprise credibility. With the IPO, they got capital to secure compute. Only concern is the people leaving after grabbing the bag.

[Harish @HarishMuk]

@futurenomics I know this sounds petty but it is pretty legendary TBH.

[Harish @HarishMuk]

@dara_venture Same goes with seed as well. Maybe A is where it starts to matter!

[Harish @HarishMuk]

@jturntdev Absolutely the right take. 3 more months for that “stealth startup “

[Harish @HarishMuk]

@Polymarket Google: we just raised $80b to build god
Apple: you can now split your happy hour bill.

[Harish @HarishMuk]

@RepCasar And there you have it- that’s why you see all the AI leaders downplaying the job loss.

[Harish @HarishMuk]

TLDR; you’re not bullish enough.

[CNBC @CNBC]

BREAKING: The AI revolution will be 50 times bigger than the Dotcom revolution in the 2000s, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son told CNBC Monday.

“I think this is like more than 10x, probably 50x bigger than dotcom,” Son told CNBC’s Arjun Kharpal in Paris a day after the company announced that it’s investing 75 billion euros ($87 billion) to build AI infrastructure in France, including 5 GW of AI data center capacity.

More details: https://t.co/BpyAOFdoKM

[Harish @HarishMuk]

@KobeissiLetter Here is a theory, after 2 IPAs. They have a few exceptional researchers who made Claude better than every other LLMs. After the IPO, they either chill out on a yacht or take another billion to jump ship. Then we may see other companies catch up.

[Harish @HarishMuk]

@icedcoffeluvr Relics of the ZIRP era.

[Harish @HarishMuk]

@Polymarket This is directionally correct, though framed wrong. If US companies build AGI, then we reap the exponential productivity/GDP gains and leapfrog other countries that hold our debt. At the same time, use AI to reduce spending. Assuming AI economics pan out eventually.

[Harish @HarishMuk]

@LinkofSunshine Moral: don’t do crimes

[Harish @HarishMuk]

@KobeissiLetter The number will start with $3

[Harish @HarishMuk]

@TheStalwart "Put your money where your mouth is". Pretty much everyone is plowing money into AI. You are not bullish enough. The music won't stop anytime soon!

[Harish @HarishMuk]

There is a huge alpha is teaching rank and file employees of F500 companies to clock in 20 hour work weeks using AI.

[Harish @HarishMuk]

@mvernal The extreme manifestation of this are the AI services companies. All you need are Models + Services.

[Harish @HarishMuk]

@AnthropicAI Reaching $3T market cap on opening day.

[Harish @HarishMuk]

I don’t understand the hate for this POV. Every company is built different. US has At-Will employment rules. Nobody is forcing you to work at a specific company. And i appreciate that the founder is upfront about the culture.

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

"If you are not working 7 days per week, you are going to lose".

Corgi Insurance is the most intense workplace culture in startups.

- The company works 7 days per week.

- Founder (@nico_laqua) lives and sleeps in the office.

- He built a cafe in the office because there was no local cafe that was open 24/7.

- 2/3 of the first 30 team members have the Corgi logo as a tattoo.

Today I went behind the scenes with Nico, who has used this culture to scale the company to a $2.6BN valuation in just two years.

My condensed notes below:

1. If You Are Not Working 7 Days Per Week, You Are Going to Lose:

Whatever you can get done in 5 days, you'll get more done in 6 and 7. If you are trying to solve the world’s hardest problems, a standard 5-day workweek will not cut it.

2. Work Trials Repel the Mediocre:

Corgi forces candidates into mock work trials over the weekend. If seeing a full office on a Saturday scares them, they don't belong. True intensity acts as a natural filter to attract killers and repel clock-watchers.

3. Lead from the Front Lines

You can’t demand 7-day weeks while sitting on a yacht. Nico sleeps 3–4 hours a night on a mattress inside the office. If you want your troops to bleed, you have to be in the trenches with them.

4. Culture Only Means One Thing: Winning

Forget superficial jargon like "hackers" or "ex-founders." Strip away the corporate fluff. A great startup culture is aggressively optimized around one single word: Winning.

5. Lifespan vs. Victories

Building something world-historic requires radical sacrifice. When asked if he'd rather build a trillion-dollar company and die at 50, or fail and live to 80, the answer was easy. "I would rather measure my lifespan in victories."

6. Reject the Comfort of "Quiet Quitting."

If you are operating in a hyper-growth environment and your days off happen to be Saturday and Sunday every single week, you are quiet quitting. To win, you must deliberately bypass the off-ramps of personal comfort and low volatility.

Corgi isn't for everyone—and that’s exactly the point.