Michael Warren

Entrepreneur | Real Estate Investor | SaaS Builder | Competing in business like it’s a sport

[Chris Clark @ChrisClark111]

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[Michael Warren @MMWarren81]

Where's the opportunity?

Economic value (aka opportunity) comes not from the invention or innovation itself, but from the entrepreneurs who turn it into something practical and usable.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

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[Big Cat @BarstoolBigCat]

What a game. What a moment

[Michael Warren @MMWarren81]

I’m also an optimist, but like tech adoption, change
management becomes opportunity

[Tat Tvam Asi @AJanamse]

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[Michael Warren @MMWarren81]

Like Nietzsche said, your life keeps score daily. Your actions (often driven by habits) are the stat line. Over time, they show whether you chose comfort and delay, or courage, creativity, and responsibility.

[Michael Warren @MMWarren81]

Totally agree with this. We are creating an intelligent application that will get you off your screens and able to really connect with people.

[Aryan Siddiqui @Ar_boian]

Brian Chesky's vision for an AI-first world is miles ahead of the Silicon Valley narrative. Haven't seen it this clearly since Steve Jobs.

[Michael Warren @MMWarren81]

“A lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client.” I think the same goes for many aspects of life and business. Trust your gut, but don’t let your ego be your only advisor. The best operators know when to seek guidance of others.

[Michael Warren @MMWarren81]

Hey operators...trust your gut.

Your gut is just pattern recognition built from reps. If you’ve been in the game long enough, listen to it. Overthinking is usually fear in disguise.

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Ben Horowitz explains why courage is the most important trait for startup founders

“Does the founder have the courage to build the company?… Aristotle said courage is the first virtue, and it’s really important in leadership. Integrity, honesty, and so forth - everybody has them in certain situations. But that’s not the question. The question is if it’s going to cost you your company, do you have your integrity? If it’s going to cost you your job, are you honest? If it’s going to completely embarrass you in front of everybody, do you have it then? The only way you have it then is if you have courage.”

Ben continues:

“Courage ends up being the foundation for a lot of what we need in an entrepreneur. I always say you need two things. You need great intelligence and great courage. And I always found as an entrepreneur my courage was tested far more than my intelligence. And I think that’s pretty universal.”

Video source: @kevinrose (2012)

[Michael Warren @MMWarren81]

We have been invisible for too long...

[Clifton Sellers @CliftonSellers]

Alex Hormozi said something that should terrify every founder:

“Obscurity is the real bottleneck.”

Not competition.
Not the algorithm.
Not “market saturation.”

It’s the fact that most founders are invisible.

You can have the best product in the world,
but if nobody knows you,
it doesn’t matter.

Your personal brand isn’t a nice-to-have.
It’s the distribution engine your business lives or dies by.

[Michael Warren @MMWarren81]

Reality Check..."We have to be willing to confront the world as it is, not as we want it to be if we're going to be successful."

— Barry McCarthy

[Michael Warren @MMWarren81]

Getting mine made today...

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

He wasn’t trying to be nice. He was trying to destroy his competitors before they could destroy him.

[Michael Warren @MMWarren81]

Going to be a real differentiator for us. We only train on real operators

[Daniel @danielisdizzy]

Larry Ellison $ORCL stressed that AI models perform at their best when trained on privately owned data—not just the public web data used by GPT, Grok, Llama, and others.

That’s why companies like $HIMS, $DUOL, $LMND are set to win.

Proprietary data is the real competitive edge.

ChatGPT can’t match that

[Michael Warren @MMWarren81]

Neurons that fire together, wire together. Every action you take strengthens the connections in your brain. You can’t always choose your circumstances—but you can choose your response, and train your mind to wire for success.

[Michael Warren @MMWarren81]

The same law that governs money governs life.

Borrow money, you pay interest. Save money, you earn it.

Same with energy, focus, and discipline.

Everything in life charges or pays interest. Choose your side.

[Michael Warren @MMWarren81]

How do we differentiate from everyone else. There are a hundred CRMS, and thousands of other individual tools out there that do parts of what we are doing. This is all I am thinking about right now…differentiation is survival

[Michael Warren @MMWarren81]

Great can come from anywhere...

Doesn't matter where you are right now or where you are from. Great Leaders, Great Managers, Great Team Members, Great Ideas can come from anywhere.

[Michael Warren @MMWarren81]

1 cut from David Senra’s episode on Elon Musk: “Do not fear losing. It hurts the first 50 times but then you’ll be able to play with less emotion. You will take more risks.” Sports teach the same lesson. You lose, you learn, you keep playing. Business is no different. Lets Go

[a16z speedrun 🧊 @speedrun]

Ben Horowitz with another banger

On fear and self-belief: “If your guts aren’t boiling, you’re not even trying.”