Each birthday (and today is my 44th!) invites reflection—on what I’ve learned, what I hold dear, and how I want to walk forward with greater clarity, courage, and grace.
I grew up a @nyknicks fan.
Today, I got to watch my son celebrate a championship parade that generations of New Yorkers waited a lifetime to see!
What a day for NY and every Knicks fan!
🧡💙🏆
Thank you @danawhite and the entire @ufc dream team for putting together an absolutely epic celebration of America’s 250th birthday at the White House last night, honoring our nation’s history, strength, and resilience !
SpaceX's first employee Tom Mueller @lrocket says he first met @elonmusk by making amateur rockets in his garage:
" I've done a few things in my garage."
Ivanka (@IvankaTrump) on the traits of the greatest entrepreneurs she knows:
“The best entrepreneurs can see clearly. They can find the signal in the noise.“
“They hone in on the variables that matter most.”
“They're solving meaningful problems. They're removing a lot of friction from people's lived experiences with products or services. They're distributing their products aggressively.”
“They're enduring the hardships that will inevitably come as they build a big and meaningful business. And they do it over time with the same level of commitment, stamina, and passion.”
Each enterprise I've spoken to is spending their AI token budget quicker than they anticipate... @FactoryAI and @matanSF just came out with model routing which will help lower costs and save tokens without sacrificing performance. Will be huge as AI spend continues to explode!
A recurring theme from the history of entrepreneurship: Seeing opportunity where others only see waste.
Ivanka (@IvankaTrump) on (1) expanding the secondary market to offset the 40% of produce grown that never makes it off the field, (2) supporting small and medium-size farmers, and (3) connecting their fresh produce with partners like Chobani instead of letting it go to waste:
“There was no secondary market for any fruit or vegetable that didn't meet an exact specification in terms of size and color, even though the taste and the quality were in no way compromised.”
“Well that makes no sense at all. Let's stimulate the demand side so that we could support these small and medium-sized farmers.”
“Why isn't there a secondary market? Why aren't these great strawberries going to a juicer if they can't be displayed at stores because they don't meet cosmetic specification that's really exact?”
“We stimulate demand by working with companies and getting offtake for these small and medium-sized farmers that's meaningful. Companies like Chobani. Now all of the fruit that we find in their beautiful yogurt products and smoothies is all sourced by Planet Harvest from small and medium farmers. That would've been 100% waste.”
Introducing model routing to Factory.
Factory Router picks the right model for every task, automatically.
Maintain frontier performance while cutting costs by 25%.
Ivanka (@IvankaTrump) on escaping competition through authenticity:
"@Naval always says escape competition through authenticity.
If you're competing it's because you're copying.
Build something that fully comes from you and that will feel most right.
It’s also the thing that's least replicable.
I love the idea of just escaping competition through authenticity but you have to do the hard work of knowing who you are."
TIL @IvankaTrump started her first business at 22
Her fashion brand reached over $800 million in annual sales
while she was running all real estate acquisitions for the Trump Org
and raising 3 young kids, with her 6-month-old son on her hip. wow.
I used to think instinct was something you're born with.
I was wrong.
Ivanka said something that stopped me cold.
'Instinct has to be developed. My instinct at 22 is different from my instinct today.'
You don't trust your gut because you're talented.
You trust your gut because you've built reps.
It's all about small wins, early failures and patterns over time.
That's how instinct gets built.
Not in a journal.
Not on a weekend retreat.
It's built in the work.
@davidsenra@IvankaTrump
Ivanka Trump: "Dana White is a great example of somebody who knows himself so well. He's authentically who he is. He would be wildly uncomfortable wearing a mask and performing in some other role."