Jon Low

Team Facilitator & Exec Coach
Founder @ ❤️ Human Excellence ... and Turtles 🐢

[Jon Low @JonLowTO]

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@LubaYudasina 1Hotel

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@edwardlando Their LPs could put more in Anthropic SpaceX and others instead too.

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@bryce LOL

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@lennysan TLDR: Don’t suck at anything you love. Or, double down on your areas of inspiration.

[Dan Shipper 📧 @danshipper]

We’ve automated every single thing we can @every with AI agents.

And yet there’s way more human work to do than ever. We’ve gone from 4 -> 30 human employees since GPT-3.

I wrote a report on the structural reasons: how AI makes expert competence cheap, why that drives up demand for experts, and why the dynamic only intensifies as we approach AGI.

After Automation: https://t.co/Lb7SUCduAg

[Jon Low @JonLowTO]

@dsog He was? Damn man. I never knew that. So cool.

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Client just used our calls to create a role play agent version of me to practice ahead of a fundraise. Highlight of the week.

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@dsog Lol

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@Jason Yeah. Almonds are bad for water. The better alternative are watermelon seeds.

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@evanjconrad Love this. 100%. Founders are fundamentally wired differently when it comes to addressing mass expectations.

[Nikunj Kothari @nikunj]

If you needed a signal that VC has truly become consensus capital, then this is the sign..

If you are a founder for the sake of being a founder, then this will resonate since you NEED capital to run your business.

If you are obsessed and don't care what the world thinks, then you'll treat each rejection as potential learning - but NOT a verdict on why you shouldn't start that company.

[Jon Low @JonLowTO]

@eoghan Fair. I also think all generalizations have their limitations. Context matters. But I love the meta message here.

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@sarahcuda Fair analogy. Only in combat sports there is mortal threat. Diff consequence of error.

[Jon Low @JonLowTO]

exec coaching in its distilled form:
Free the clients future from being hostage to the past. And, respecting that it is human :)

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@Kekius_Sage One has Batman energy. The other has Lex Luthor energy.

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@mwseibel Truth! I’ve been sharing this snippet of yours with founders. So good to know you’re so active post YC days.

[Jon Low @JonLowTO]

The future is brighter than most believe. The transition to the future is more uncomfortable than most would like. Find your tribe and work towards it together.

[Jon Low @JonLowTO]

“Structured L&D is often disconnected from the reality of high-performance work. The best employees are curious enough to figure things out on their own. By documenting all communication in transcripts and chats, new hires can use AI models to summarize tribal knowledge and develop themselves more effectively than any formal training program.” — Already seeing this across early stage startups. The future can be bright for new grads. Nothing like “just in time learning” that is contextual.

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

The Truth About Being a CEO and a Parent:

"I felt like for my children, I became more distant 'cause I wasn't paying attention to them.

I think any founder knows this experience. If they have kids, you hang out with your kids, but your mind is elsewhere. Either that or you're on your phone. So you're never really present.

What I realized is, like almost in every relationship in my life, I was never really present. What I tried to do to change that is to take at least small moments. To feel like I was present.

And so small moments might be 10 minutes at a time. But if I gave myself 10 minutes at a time to hang out with one of my children or a couple of my children, I felt like, okay, now I'm actually committing to them to be a hundred percent present."

What is your single biggest advice to CEOs on how to be the best parent they can be @sama @alexisohanian @SahilBloom @chetanp?

[Jon Low @JonLowTO]

A tale of two early-stage startup CEO’s. Strong revenue and economics. Stalling growth. Same symptoms but different causes. All roads lead to CEO-stance: https://t.co/rudoLqRhkB

[TBPN @tbpn]

"We're about to see the explosion of analog."

@garyvee wants to open a restaurant that makes you check your phone in at the door and seats you at communal tables.

"Extreme AI is creating extreme analog. I think it's a barbell."

"I could not be more interested in physical retail, event-driven businesses, in concerts and venues."

"There are a lot of interesting non-digital realities that are coming as a countermove to the insanity of AI advancements."

"We're literally within a half decade of not believing a single video that's on the internet. In 5 years, if we're having this interview, most of the audience is trying to figure out if we're real or not."

"That is very real, and has substantial counter-opportunities."

"Any real entrepreneur, they're not crying about AI killing them. They're curious about how AI at scale is going to create opportunity for them."