Marwan Basha

Founder, MD @FlexLabs_ME | ex-@McKinsey | Advisory, Ventures & Investments

[Marwan Basha @BashaTalks]

How a 5 minute conversation with a CEO hiring for his company changed my entire career trajectory..

About 9 years ago I was a second year BA at McKinsey & Company and having a tough time.

I started looking at potential exits, and landed an interview for a strategy role at an exciting tech. startup.

The Head of Strategy was an ex-McKinsey colleague, and the interview went well. Afterwards, I was introduced to the CEO, Muhammad Chbib, for a quick chat.

He asked why I wanted to join. I gave him my rationale. He listened, and then told me (politely but directly) something along the lines of: "we'd love to have you, but I don't think you're leaving for the right reasons."

That was it. Five minutes, but the impact of that conversation and his honesty was profound and fundamentally altered the course of my career.

I didn't take the job. I went back, put my head down and started 'making my own McKinsey'. Stayed for almost 6 years, and that set up everything that came after.

I never thanked him. Honestly, I didn't even remember the conversation until this week. When it came back to me I sent him a message 9 years later (better late than never, right?)

He had every reason to just hire me but he didn't. Not everyone would have done that.

If you're ever in a position to give someone the honest answer instead of the easy one, do it. You might not hear about it for 9 years, but it still counts just the same.

Muhammad Chbib, thank you.

[Marwan Basha @BashaTalks]

@Austen So you can say it on a podcast I reckon

[Marwan Basha @BashaTalks]

If everyone is building the future, who is building the present?

[Marwan Basha @BashaTalks]

But but but the data centers and the water..

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Surgeons successfully remove a brain tumor using live AI guidance for the first time in history.

[Marwan Basha @BashaTalks]

Now this is exciting.. Next steps: fix Opus and optimize Fable?

[Claude @claudeai]

Claude now has its own built-in browser in Cowork.

When your task involves a website, a browser opens in Cowork's side panel, and Claude navigates, fills forms, and finishes the job.

[Marwan Basha @BashaTalks]

How long before w have kids controlling robots fighting in the war zone? Over/under 15 years?

[Bodycam Game @ReissadStudio]

Welcome to the Trenches.

Devlog 3/4 is live. Go behind the scenes of Trenches before Lock & Loaded drops September 2nd.

Full episode on YouTube.

#Bodycam #BodycamGame #NewMap

[Marwan Basha @BashaTalks]

@vasielv Super cool - are you sharing the same leads to different people, or is a lead exhausted once shared, or is there a timer? i.e. if both my neighbour and I sign up, can we get the same leads?

[Marwan Basha @BashaTalks]

@launch_llama Fix it?

[Marwan Basha @BashaTalks]

@AlexHormozi Necessary not just okay.

[Marwan Basha @BashaTalks]

@FelonyTrades This is awesome - good for you man

[Marwan Basha @BashaTalks]

@rihntv Better prompting, more defined guardrails, and alternating between models depending on complexity.

[Marwan Basha @BashaTalks]

@danellisona Life is hard for everyone man, it doesn’t need to be a comparison. Just hard in different ways.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

When calories became cheap, convenient, and abundant, bodies decayed.

Thinking is now cheap.

[Marwan Basha @BashaTalks]

@toddsaunders Yeah it’s rough, especially given Fable is the only decent model on Anthropic right now.

[Marwan Basha @BashaTalks]

@santiagoroel What if I don't feel anything?

[ADONIS @adonispara]

Dostoevsky writing to his brother a few hours after nearly being executed by order of Tsar Nicholas I.

[Marwan Basha @BashaTalks]

@0xgaut I treat my LLM better than anyone I know.. I'm convinced over a long-enough time period, he'll eventually stop asking for money in exchange for work.

[Marwan Basha @BashaTalks]

@JamesonCamp Wholeheartedly agree. Personal experience in professional services is clients who pay less, tend to demand more. Clients that pay more value your time more appropriately, and you therefore spend more time on value-adding work rather than churn.

[Marwan Basha @BashaTalks]

The year is 2035. We're holed up in an apartment, waiting for the drones above us to pass.

The sound thins, then dies. We step outside and move fast.

Then, over the horizon.. Something clunking towards us. It picks up speed. It doesn't slow down.

We turn and run. I hear it before I feel it, and then I'm on the ground, tasting dust, mustering the strength to open my eyes.

When I do, a cute-looking robot is looking down at me. It waves its little arm.

Everything fades to black.

[el.cine @EHuanglu]

china’s AI robot just hit 14.5 m/s