Did hackathon this week
Optiblack Team created a knowledge base agent that
We want to use internally to capture all our knowledge and make it searchable
Europe quietly built its own payment rails.
Wero is live in 13 countries,
with 48.5M users
and €7.5B processed in year one
and fees around 0.7%
vs Visa/Mastercard’s 1–3%.
It doesn’t need 50% market share.
It just needs enough scale so Europe can finally say:
we have our own switch.
Hiring has been wild lately.
3 types of candidates reach out:
- "Attach CV" and disappear
- Generic copy‑paste cold emails
- The rare ones who do the work upfront, show proof, and ask sharp questions
We only move forward with (3).
In 2026,
being proactive + specific still beats every AI‑written CV.
AI has found its perfect product-market fit,
and unfortunately,
that’s software engineering.
- Analyst, Motilal Oswal
What this means is
Engineering will undergo changes and make software creation easier
But scalability more hard
Every company is now planning to become an AI powered company
reason
AI gives the productivity boost
Cost reduction is always part of company directives
so it fits a natural way to come in
a customer hired us in 2022
he left the company in 2025
he started a new company in 2026
he is hiring us again
people change
but people always go to the people they know to do the work
be that person
Talked to a 15-year-old professional
He says selling the old way is falling flat
CMS, DAM are old technology
and need a new way of services and selling
what is selling today is AI
anyone who asks me do I invest in stocks
my answer is
I have stocks of only 1 company
my own company
that is the only stock I own
that is the only stock I want to see grow
that is the only stock I am focussed on
Naval just said that Apple and SaaS are dead
what will work?
Data flywheels.
The companies that train better models, gather proprietary data through user interaction & build feedback loops competitors cannot replicate are durable.
Tesla's autopilot data.
Bloomberg's terminal data.
The data compounds. Software wrappers around commodity data do not.
If your product generates unique data with every user interaction, you have something.
If your product is a UI on top of public APIs, you don't.