The risk with hiring a domain expert for a zero-to-one product is that new products that breakout are always outliers and break the rules.
Foolish people who start from a clean slate and operate from first principles don't have that scar tissue that can cloud decisionmaking. For example, Airbnb had no hoteliers on the founding team.
However, the best scenario seems to be composing the team with both types of people, as it will create the chemistry to avoid obvious mistakes while also questioning "expert" assumptions.
The best time to join a rocketship is before everyone knows about it.
I’m excited to launch The Next 50: the 50 hottest early-stage startups to keep an eye on (and try to join).
Using @harmonic_ai’s data, the juiciest startup dataset out there, we looked at every early-stage startup and ranked them on headcount growth, recent funding, and investor interest.
We then picked the top 50.
Here's the full list: https://t.co/4NKVmf3qI9
We’ll update it quarterly, and I’d love your feedback on what other factors we should consider.
P.S. This is in addition to the Lenny 100, the top 100 well-known companies with the highest talent density, tackling the most ambitious problems: https://t.co/zko7uMaIUK
You can now connect multiple local computers to the same dot and choose which one it uses for a task.
It can build and test your app on a dedicated machine while you keep coding on your laptop.
I've changed how I work over the last few weeks.
I now have one lead agent for each area of focus, running all the time, and a chief of staff agent that oversees them. Each lead manages its own sub-agents that write code, test it, chase reviews, and coordinate with team members.
Everything I need to decide or review comes into one prioritized queue, a simple local web app. Each product review includes screenshots and a video demo of the feature. I clear the queue in batches, mostly by voice and keyboard shortcuts. The leads also bring back ideas I hadn't considered.
Working from one queue, instead of switching between dozens of chats, has cut a lot of mental overhead. The system keeps learning my preferences and distilling my judgment into a "Brian brain," so its recommendations and first drafts get better before they reach me. The goal is fewer corrections per change.
Every change still goes through the same human review and security checks. It is eliminating tasks, not human judgment.
What an exciting time to push the frontier of productivity, especially as we build the economy for agents (agentic finance). We should all keep pushing in this direction.
@lingxi@bot Connect to @Nuitee_Official for booking travel, flights and experiences to make the experience much better and visual v. scrapping websites and filling out forms.
@Nuitee_Official is the infrastructure powering many of the AI assistants, largest companies offering travel, etc. using the browser and filling out forms as an AI assistant isn’t a great experience for the consumer and isn’t a good product capability for the AI assistant… would love to partner with you to make this a better experience for everyone!
If China “beats” the US in the AI race, I’d bet two big reasons would be their outsized focus on open models and their massive renewable energy buildouts.
China added 11x as much renewable power capacity as the US in 2025. Even adjusting for population differences, it’s still almost THREE TIMES our added capacity per person.
This potential rollback from the EPA is sending us in the wrong direction.
https://t.co/3WdAlZonC0
@ChrisCoons Stop fraudulent and wasteful spending first then prioritize this… seems more important .. especially since we have data on that and no data on AI.. it is just a theory.. there are a lot of those
Look it is simple. Without data it is only opinion… all of these people posting their opinion that AI is gonna kill us all without data just need to stop.
I guess they also believed the world was flat..
and Fauci when he said COVID was gonna kill us all… which put us in extreme inflation and debt
And those against nuclear energy which has put us in a potential energy crisis in the future and our cost for adding energy is 15x of China…
Yeah we should keep listening without any data or facts..
If you are gonna post something - add data or facts … otherwise stop or you will be part of our future problem as a country…
Look it is simple. Without data it is only opinion… all of these people posting their opinion that AI is gonna kill us all without data just need to stop.
I guess they also believed the world was flat..
and Fauci when he said COVID was gonna kill us all… which put us in extreme inflation and debt
And those against nuclear energy which has put us in a potential energy crisis in the future and our cost for adding energy is 15x of China…
Yeah we should keep listening without any data or facts..
If you are gonna post something - add data or facts … otherwise stop or you will be part of our future problem as a country…
Guess we should have listened to everyone that the world was flat, and Fauci that COVID was gonna kill us all and those against nuclear energy (bc that didn’t put us behind) 🙄… if you believe this… where is the data? Show it… without data there is only opinions so people need to stop posting them until you have data and facts.
@SenRubenGallego The world is flat, COVID is going to kill is all and we shouldn’t built nuclear energy… 🙄.. let’s get behind other countries bc that makes sense … where is the data?
@jappleby The world is flat, COVID is going to kill is all and we shouldn’t built nuclear energy… 🙄.. let’s get behind other countries bc that makes sense