Carlos Gomez

Co-Founder & CEO @cheerfy | Entrepreneur, Engineer, Optimist | @MIT @Techstars

[The Iceman @the_iceman64]

90% of the soldiers on the first boats to hit the beach didn't live to see the end of the day. Look at those faces. Some of them never made it to 18.

Never forget that they paid the ultimate price for our freedom. We live our lives the way we do because of them.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

There are two loops in every founder's head.

The autism loop: run your own model to the floor, ignore consensus, hold a thesis when everyone says you're wrong. That makes conviction.

The empathy loop: feel what the user feels, sense what the market wants before it has words. That makes traction.

Most people crank one and starve the other. Pure conviction builds something brilliant nobody wants. Pure empathy builds consensus mush.

PG put the whole job in four words: make something people want. The autism loop makes the something. The empathy loop knows it's wanted. The founder is the bridge.

Most great founders show up dominant in the first loop. That's why they're contrarian enough to try at all. The work is grafting on the second.

There is no place in the world that helps founders make the two loops work together to make great startups than Y Combinator. It is the most gratifying part of our work.

[GRAZIANO PASCALE @grazianopascale]

Esto de @perezreverte sobre Zapatero, que es de antes de que fuera imputado por delitos de corrupción, es sublime.
La comparación entre malos y tontos es de antología.
Es para poner en loop y verlo 10 veces, y después darle RT.

[Martin Varsavsky @martinvars]

La IA hará brutal la diferencia entre saber pensar y fingir que se sabe. El niño que lee, calcula y escribe bien la usará como bicicleta eléctrica para la inteligencia. El que no, como muleta para no aprender. La prosperidad empieza antes de la empresa, empieza en el aula.

[Martin Varsavsky @martinvars]

Dotcom telecoms 2.0. We built fiber for traffic that took a decade to arrive. Half the carriers died waiting. OpenAI's $1.4T in compute commitments versus $20B revenue is the same script, same math. Infrastructure always overshoots. https://t.co/RQedpahhpg

[rvivek @rvivek]

The hottest job for the next five years is going to be the agent operator.

They don't need to be an engineer. They can walk into marketing, legal, or life sciences research and actually make agents work for that function.

Required skills:
> MCPs
> CLIs
> Writing skills (the file kind)
> agents.md fluency
> Business acumen

None of this is in any CS curriculum today.

Soon, enterprises will be pressured to redesign their workflows for agents, not for people. And when that happens, agent operators will be in massive demand.

[Arturo Pérez-Reverte @perezreverte]

Si no lo hubiera escrito hace 32 años lo volvería a escribir ahora.

[Zach Chmael @ZachChmael]

@shl The best founders I know don't retire — they just upgrade their obsession. The skills that built company #1 become the foundation for company #2, but with better pattern recognition and fewer dumb mistakes. The 'retirement' is just the refractory period between ideas.

[Socratic Experience @socraticexp]

If your child becomes a reader, about 80% of the educational job is already done. That's our honest assessment, based on many of us working in education for over three decades. Everything else is secondary. Most parents think science education is important. Yes, it is. But if you can't read the biology textbook, you're not going to learn biology.

Reading is the meta-skill that enables all other skills. History requires reading. Science requires reading. Even math increasingly requires reading as it becomes more sophisticated. The child who reads voraciously will figure out everything else. The child who doesn't will struggle with everything.

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

AlphaGenome is our latest & most advanced genomics model published in @Nature today including making the model & weights available to academic researchers. Can’t wait to see what the research community will do with it. Congrats to the team on our newest front cover! #AI4Science

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

Before you sell,
Before you quit,
Before you step down

Remember at best, we have 3 >real< start-ups in us as founders.

And often just 1 good one.

If you have any traction at all -- maybe find a way to make this one work.

[Tony Fadell @tfadell]

We don’t need more startup theatre. We need more innovators quietly building and shipping products that feel like magic. Building trust > buzzword filled posts.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If I could send my 18 year old self a message, it would have three parts:

1. Prestige is often mistaken. Follow curiosity instead.

2. There's no way to avoid hard work. It's not sufficient, but it is necessary.

3. Don't take your parents for granted.

[Naval @naval]

In 1971, money changed from a natural system (gold) to a socialist system (fiat).

Crypto is tech to replace socialist money with a free-market system.

Market systems are inherently competitive and as tech evolves, new monies will continue to emerge to challenge existing ones.

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

You think it's the competition
The funding drama
Those lost key deals
That rough quarter

You think those are what wear you down

But it's the internal battles that do the real damage

[Alex Lieberman @businessbarista]

I stole this idea and now use it with every single employee.

It’s the best illustration I’ve seen of teaching someone to be high agency.

It says there are 5 levels of work:

Level 1: “There is a problem.”

Level 2: “There is a problem, and I’ve found some causes.”

Level 3: “Here’s the problem, here are some possible causes, and here are some possible solutions.”

Level 4: “Here’s the problem, here’s what I think caused it, here are some possible solutions, and here’s the one I think we should pick.”

Level 5: “I identified a problem, figured out what caused it, researched how to fix it, and I fixed it. Just wanted to keep you in the loop.”

Using this framework, here’s what I say to every new employee…

You will live at Level 4 from Day 1 and as we build trust you will rise to Level 5.

Being high agency doesn’t just mean tackling problems in this way. It means your entire way of working should be oriented to being a Level 4+ employee.

Plz feel free to steal it as well.

And ty @stephsmithio for the framework!

[Martin Varsavsky @martinvars]

Preparando la visita a Almaraz mañana.

[Pedro Domingos @pmddomingos]

This should be a poster in every classroom.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

“Money is essentially an information system for labor allocation, so it has no power in & of itself. it's like a database for guiding people as to what they should do.”

— Elon Musk