Fernando Martínez de la Vega

Nietzsche & Wes Anderson fan

[Fernando Martínez de la Vega @egaroo]

@TheChipi @carlozuri No sabía que Antonio Ricaurte también hablaba portugués

[Fernando Martínez de la Vega @egaroo]

@bandiaditya @AndreaShuyuWang @noondesign Get Noon

[Oren John @orenmeetsworld]

https://t.co/3cgXehslAU

[Good Work @goodworkmb]

one country now

[Good Work @goodworkmb]

Monday motivation.

[Dara @daraladje]

Most founders accidentally train their customers never to pay them.

@MadhavanSF (the "pricing guru" of Silicon Valley - having worked with LinkedIn, Uber, and 30+ unicorns) calls it the 20/80 Pricing Trap

• 20% of your features drive 80% of the willingness to pay
• Founders give that 20% away for free to gain distribution
• You are left trying to monetize the remaining 80% of features - the ones users don't actually value.

The result? You build a charity, not a business.

In this week's episode of The Library of Minds, we discuss the science of monetization and deconstruct how to architect ‘Profitable Growth’ - the core framework from his new book, Scaling Innovation.

03:33 - Netflix vs Blockbuster: The Pricing Decision That Changed Tech
08:06 - Why Most Startups Get Pricing Wrong
11:39 - Freemium vs Paid: When Free Destroys Value
15:38 - Pricing Models Matter More Than Price
16:28 - The AI Pricing Framework: Autonomy vs Attribution
21:49 - The Biggest Pricing Mistake Ever
25:05 - Why Steve Jobs Was a Pricing Genius
26:44 - Behavioral Pricing: How Founders 10× Deals Without Changing Product
31:02 - Data vs Conviction: How Great Founders Make Pricing Decisions

[Henrick Johansson @compliantvc]

99% of founders are building companies wrong.

This is why, after 3 years of development and 14 months securing approval from the European Commission for Educational Content Compliance...

I'm pleased to announce my MasterClass: "The Art of Compliance"

In this class I will teach you:
- Why the cookie consent banner isn't blocking your product—it IS your entire product
- Why I rejected Stripe at pre-seed for having ZERO certifications (the Collison brothers personally called me, I hung up)
- Why I wake at 3am to physically touch my SOC 2 report before returning to sleep
- Why you must hire a Chief Compliance Officer on DAY ONE—before your first engineer, before your first line of code

Stay tuned.

Access details pending approval from 11 European data protection authorities.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

THE COGNITIVE COLLAPSE

We are witnessing the first documented case of mutual intelligence degradation between humans and machines.

This is not theory. This is peer-reviewed science.

Texas A&M, UT Austin, and Purdue just proved that AI systems trained on viral content lose 23.6% of their reasoning ability. Long-context comprehension collapses by 38%. Even after retraining with 4.8 times more quality data, a 17.3% deficit remains permanent.

The models are forgetting how to think.

MIT tracked 54 humans using ChatGPT for four months. Result: weakest brain connectivity of any group tested. When asked to write without AI assistance, 78% could not recall a single passage from essays they had written minutes earlier.

The humans are forgetting how to think.

Nature published the mathematical proof: AI trained on AI-generated content undergoes “irreversible defects.” The tails of the distribution vanish. Nuance disappears. Everything converges toward the median of whatever the algorithm rewards.

Now connect the system.

Platforms optimize for engagement. Engagement-optimized content degrades AI training data. Degraded AI produces degraded content. Humans consuming and delegating to these systems experience cognitive decline. Those humans produce content that becomes training data.

The feedback loop is closed. Both intelligences are degrading together.

560,000 weekly ChatGPT users now show signs of psychosis according to OpenAI’s own data. Websites blocking AI scraping tripled in one year. AI incidents increased 56.4% in 2024 alone.

The information ecosystem that built modern civilization is consuming itself.

This is not a technology problem. This is not a human problem. This is a coupled system approaching a phase transition where the quality of thought itself becomes the scarce resource.

The organizations and individuals who secure access to genuine human intelligence and uncorrupted information will define the next era.

Everyone else will wonder what happened to their ability to reason.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Read the full article here
https://t.co/lz92GGz4N4

[John Wang @j0hnwang]

Never forget the homie in the group who waited for you while you tied your shoelace

[David Perell @david_perell]

Ezra Klein: Part of what's happening when you spend seven hours reading a book is you spend seven hours with your mind on a given topic. But the idea that ChatGPT can summarize it for you is nonsense.

The point is that books don't just give you information. They give you a container to think about a narrowly defined scope of ideas.

Downloading information is obviously part of why you read books. But the other part is that books let you ruminate on a topic with a level of depth that's hard to achieve on your own.

@ezraklein

[Fernando Martínez de la Vega @egaroo]

Este día tiene su propia canción: 16 de mayo https://t.co/cVk3KRO0Ue

[Fernando Martínez de la Vega @egaroo]

@peeplaja Hi Pep, this may help you: https://t.co/XKNp0Zvq6D

[Javier Cañada @javiercanada]

Diseño: ¿oficio o profesión? Es uno de mis guiones favoritos de Design Graduate. Estoy volviendo mucho a él estos días, mientras preparo el programa de Liderazgo Creativo y Visión de Diseño en @somostramontana . Dejo el video en abierto, que me han dado permiso, que creo que el tema tiene miga.

[Fernando Martínez de la Vega @egaroo]

@petesena Figma. Thanks Pete!

[Fernando Martínez de la Vega @egaroo]

@RatheeJaisal I curate everything Growth-Product Marketing related here, ideal for founders who want to learn from the best minds in the field :) https://t.co/XKNp0Zvq6D

[Yo fuí a EGB @YofuiaEGB]

Maravilloso esto de @forocoches

[Niels Olsen @NielsOlsen]

No se pierdan esta nueva producción de @DisneyPlus narrada por Brendan Fraser 🇪🇨

Disponible desde el 22/Abril.

@EcuadorTravel

[Fernando Martínez de la Vega @egaroo]

@RatheeJaisal A curated list of the best posts on everything Growth :)
https://t.co/XKNp0Zvq6D

[Nabeel S. Qureshi @nabeelqu]

Imagine being Miyazaki, pouring decades of heart and soul into making this transcendent beautiful tender style of anime, and then seeing it get sloppified by linear algebra

[John Coogan @johncoogan]

Best thing I’ve read recently.