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[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

In 2009, Stanford business professor Tina Seelig split her class into groups and issued a challenge:

Each group had $5 and 2 hours to make the highest return on the money.

At the end, they'd give a short presentation on their strategy.

What happened next was fascinating:

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Success = keeping promises to yourself.

That’s it.

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Q: What are the muscles of #entrepreneurship that you would recommend people work on

A: Delayed gratification.

Alex Hormozi’s clarity of thought continues to astound me.

Podcast episode here: https://t.co/q3PVzTSndn

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Exiting the office at Marina Bay on a rainy night made me think, inexplicably, of London.

[Varun @varun_mathur]

Dear Mira and Ilya - congratulations on your coup at OpenAI. Since both of you have together never raised a penny as entrepreneurs, let me explain what happens.

Oh, and you *will* need to raise since your venture’s unit economics don’t make sense. Remember, you pay $0.30 every time someone asks a doofus question to ChatGPT. Heck, I sometimes ask the same thing 5 times.

Also, the last deal at $80 billion valuation - is as dead as the Egyptian pharaohs. Glorious to write about and visualize. But super dead, under the sand, not coming back.

Not only that - but you sideswiped your biggest partner, Microsoft. Of course publicly they will say the right thing, but you know and they know it and a random fellow like me knows it - they must be seething mad about it.

Few of your top researchers have already quit, and if there is one thing Sam Altman is especially good at, it is raising and deploying capital. Before the sign with your name and title as “CEO” and “Defacto CEO” gets emblazoned in the OpenAI offices, Sam would have a new company, $1 billion investment and offers out to all your, soon to be ex, top product people and researchers.

So you head into next week having lost your top dealmaker, top researchers, top product visionary, top partner and top investor, and with a business which has terrible unit economics.

And let’s not forget - the two of you are not entrepreneurs. Most people in your board have never held a proper tech job ever. You have never had to face the abject rejection which follows from pitching many investors, going through the process, and getting to close. Getting to close is the toughest. Sometimes investors say yes, but they don’t actually mean it. Sometimes they even sign, and still don’t wire the funds. You will need to live through all of it, the pain and rejection, and feel intense amount of pressure of having to provide for your team members - who pays their mortgages, car loans, kids school tuition - the ones whom you played with at the last company picnic.

After you are exhausted with the realities of the market - you will sell out OpenAI to Microsoft entirely, and be housed as Global Principal Product Managers in building 4 in Seattle, where it rains non-stop. Microsoft will never fire you, Satya will always say the right thing about you - because he is an honorable person.

But deep down in your heart, as you are watching the Netflix movie on OpenAI and Joseph-Gordon Levitt’s wife plays herself as a board member who fired Sam Altman over Google Meet, you will think and realize that you had it all - you could have been at the helm of a $1 trillion company. History will forget you. Sam and Greg and everyone else would have moved on and forgotten about you. e/acc would have built out fundamental OpenAI alternatives in anycase..

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@jsadiq Beautiful shot man

[Harrison Faigen @hmfaigen]

With that basket, LeBron James has become the new all-time leading scorer in NBA history, surpassing LeBron James

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One of the things I'm proudest of working at LinkedIn is how our platform connects people to opportunity, which then leads to #socialmobility. But a platform doesn't magically make that happen all the time (although the #AI does a…https://t.co/u6FSWgNrsj https://t.co/ndbRRuPVKs

[NBA on ESPN @ESPNNBA]

.@Rjeff24 shared a powerful message on load management in the NBA:

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5-minute read below on how to improve your employer brand. If you’re in the #Philippines and want to understand this better, the team at Viventis Search Asia are leading the way in #employerbranding and one of our Best Employer Brand winners at LinkedIn…https://t.co/GUYIhhG0AT

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@IcedKnife HODL

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This burn just accelerated climate change

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

yes, please do enlighten me. email me at [email protected]

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

I recently came across data on who we spend our time with over the course of our lives.

The insights are simultaneously inspiring and depressing.

Here are 6 graphs everyone needs to see:

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"Ruthless prioritization. Do fewer things and do them better than anyone else"

Sage advice from Vivek Vikram Singh as he opened up APAC's first channel partner event for the year. This is how we're going to gain a mile as our competition gains 100 yards…https://t.co/x2kXjbzBUZ

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"Today, we’re further expanding access to certifications by partnering with notable third-party providers including IBM, Meta, and Oracle, to help learners discover certification preparation content directly from the source."

"In the next couple of month…https://t.co/QU3lFpVlHo

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The Confusing Job Market: CEOs and CHROs Seem Baffled. Interesting read from @Josh_Bersin here:

#talentstrategy https://t.co/nwvIEBlpy6

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Spending Relationship InDay reconnecting with an ex-colleague over breakfast and hanging out my awesome Families@LinkedIn team over lunch was a great time of laughter, learning from one another, and stuffing our faces.

Stanford research says that having…https://t.co/Y64uXKtQCp

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Check out the top 20 #linkedinlearning topics in Singapore this year. Top 10 are free for you to dive into until 31 Aug! #alwayslearning #lifelonglearning #freecourse https://t.co/vkUNrnBliZ

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Check out the top 20 #linkedinlearning topics in Singapore this year. Top 10 are free for you to dive into until 31 Aug!

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"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations"

See below on how organizations can unlock hidden opportunity and latent potential by focusing on upskilling and reskilling. https://t.co/e9ld3B2ShX