Eugene Mutiso

We thrive amidst adversity

[Eugene Mutiso @eugeneznm]

@paulswaney3 wonderful! would love this

[Eugene Mutiso @eugeneznm]

@paulswaney3 Would love to try it out

[Shipper @shipper_now]

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[Eugene Mutiso @eugeneznm]

@VittoStack AI

[Eugene Mutiso @eugeneznm]

@paulswaney3 Interested

[Eugene Mutiso @eugeneznm]

@paulswaney3 Integration

[Eugene Mutiso @eugeneznm]

@coldemailchris GTM

[Henry Shi @henrythe9ths]

There's a shocking fact about AI that nobody tells you: You can catch up to the public AI research frontier in just 2 weeks. Yes, really.

I've built a $150M annual revenue startup over the last 8 years and If I were to start a company today, I’d drop everything and go all-in on AI.

But like many busy software builders, I felt lost—overwhelmed by the noisy, crowded and fast-moving modern AI landscape. And I wasn’t alone.

So I spent my entire holiday diving deep into AI research—reading 30+ papers, watching hours of lectures, analyzing trends, and catching up to the research frontier.

✨ Here’s what I learned:
- You don’t need months (or years) to catch up.
- You don’t need a PhD or decades of ML experience.
- You need fewer than 20 papers and 2 weeks to understand the major breakthroughs shaping AI today.

It's because the technology is extremely nascent and most techniques that came before are no longer relevant:
- ChatGPT is barely 2 years old and Transformers are only 7 years old.
- Most game-changing discoveries happened within the last 4 years, driven by a few breakthrough ideas, scaling laws, and efficient matrix multiplication.

The biggest secret?
Many groundbreaking AI papers with thousands of citations are surprisingly simple and applied, like adding "let's think step by step" to the prompt, or simply asking the LLM over and over again to improve its answer (Self-Refine).

I realized there are tons of founders and builders in the same boat—wanting to dive deeper into AI but unsure where to start.

I've created an essential AI Guide that helped me catch up, in just 2 weeks, to the frontier of public AI research to figure out where the next opportunities and gaps were:
- Curated list of only the most important papers
- Simple explanations of key concepts
- Clear pathway to understanding the frontier of modern AI

It’s perfect for:
- Founders expanding into AI
- Builders wanting to innovate at the frontier of AI
- Investors looking to separate the signal from the noise

👇 Want the full guide?
- Like and Share this post
- Comment "AI Guide"
- I'll send you the complete guide

(ps, I’m also teaming up with @VishalVasishth, co-founder of @obviousvc with @ev (focused on large-scale societal impact companies like Twitter, Medium, Beyond Meat), to host a small meetup to discuss what's working and needs to be solved in the AI stack in SF. Message me if you're interested)

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The proscriptions of Marius led to the proscriptions of Sulla

[Eugene Mutiso @eugeneznm]

High quality and very useful!!

@paulswaney3 and @james_goat53509

[Eugene Mutiso @eugeneznm]

@SteadyCompound Valuation

[Eugene Mutiso @eugeneznm]

@calebmaru Interested 🖐

[Marko Papic @Geo_papic]

I have no insights into the Adani Group saga as I have zero experience reseaching single name equities. I would not even know where to begin.

However, I think that there is a broader macro story here that folks are missing. A brief 🧵...

[Kevin Gee @kevg1412]

The Santa Fe Institute is one of the most magical places on Earth. It’s home to some of the world’s most curious + interdisciplinary researchers, but it’s also attracted titans of business, tech, investing.

Here’s who’s on the board, what they've done, and an insight from each:

[Emeka Ajene ✍🏽 @eajene]

There are reports and then there are monster reports 👀

Highly recommend reading this new 200+ page monster of a report from @FTPartners & co

Especially if you're building or investing in fintech in Africa (or are otherwise interested in the subject)

https://t.co/s3dgHc1ypb

[Benjamin Carlson @bfcarlson]

I can't get over how prophetic this man was. Here's Marshall McLuhan over half a century ago (1966) predicting the world we live in decades before anyone had imagined it.

[Kenyan Business @BusinessIntelKE]

My most interesting interaction this year while traveling was with a random cab driver in his 70s who used to be an Austrian consulate at one of the Caribbean nations.

He later started an airline which collapsed and went bankrupt shortly after he started it.

1/n

[Eugene Mutiso @eugeneznm]

@getpaidwrite 100 years of solitude

The Master and Margarita

The Brothers Karamazov

[Eugene Mutiso @eugeneznm]

@hpierrejacques @HarlemCapital @pariti_io Would definitely love to attend.

[Doomberg @DoombergT]

1/ In the second half of the 16th century, Britain plunged into an energy crisis. At the time, the primary source of energy driving the British economy was heat derived from the burning of wood, and Britain was literally running out of trees.