Tip: Except if you were asked a yes/no question, do not reply to someone with "No." If you don't agree, explain why. The "No." is unnecessary and doesn't invite your interlocutor to listen to you.
Just spoke to @KanyeWest about his friend A$AP Rocky’s incarceration. I will be calling the very talented Prime Minister of Sweden to see what we can do about helping A$AP Rocky. So many people would like to see this quickly resolved!
Invest more time, effort and money to keep talents than you do to recruit them. Recruiting the right people is insanely difficult, don't ruin all your work by not caring for your teammates.
🔥This, from an old @naval podcast, is simple but great
Vs. 15 years ago:
🔽 It's 10-100x cheaper to build a software business
🔼 Market size have increased by 10-100x as internet & smartphone penetration 📈
➡️ The opportunity to make money in software is simply 100x to 10,000x
A: "I need your 3 year plan."
B: "We have a 6-month plan & will adjust from there."
A: "I need your 3 year plan."
B: "Our market changes every 18 months."
A: "I need your 3 year plan."
B: "No 3 year plan has lasted longer than 6 months."
A: "I need your 3 year plan."
B: "Okay."
Uber and Lyft now doing >1 million rides per day. Most of those are random contractors picking up random people.
There are 2 million Airbnb stays per day. 2 million strangers staying in strangers’ homes every night.
People are, on average, much better than we’d suspect.
It’s the worst feeling when you have to use a product Stripe might eventually offer but doesn’t yet. Old school financial companies are beyond abysmal at software and customer service.
Thread: Looking at China illuminates just how nascent the US “influencer stack” is. While the US continues to debate whether influencer marketing is even effective, China has an entire industry of influencer incubators who work end-to-end to turn individuals into big businesses.