Women founders have been reaching out to me over the past 24 hours about how they don’t have permission to run their companies in Founder Mode the same way men can. This needs to change
Excited to announce we've raised 73.6M$ at 520M$ valuation, led by IVP, along with our seed and Series A lead investors NEA, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman. Honored to have NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos, @tobi, Databricks, @naval, @rauchg, @balajis partner in this round, among others.
He sold over 20,000,000 pairs of sunglasses with a 240 word story.
And is considered to be one of the greatest copywriters, ever.
Here’re 5 of Joe Sugarman’s most powerful writing secrets:
(Starting with the two he called “THE most powerful”)
Stephen Wolfram of Wolfram Alpha wrote the absolute best post on ChatGPT and Large Language Models.
It took me about two hours to read, but significantly increased my understanding of what's going on under the hood of ChatGPT.
A few of my favorite takeaways (helps my process)
This meeting could have been an email
This task could have been an AI prompt
This job could have been a series of API calls
This company could have been a fully autonomous entity acting on its own volition to set and achieve its goals
Listen and be open, but don’t let anybody tell you who you are. This was just one of the many stories telling us all the ways we were going to fail. Today, Amazon is one of the world’s most successful companies and has revolutionized two entirely different industries.
Product-as-journalism
- https://t.co/IFCG9444ug
- https://t.co/ZQKPVs0Ok5
- https://t.co/iqa518zlXt
- https://t.co/8Wxae8H92J
Dashboards that present numbers alongside (monetizable?) actions can replace pure text coverage in many verticals.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent her life in pursuit of an equal world. She fought for the unheard, and through her decisions, she changed the course of American history. We can never repay what she has given us, but we all can honor her legacy by working toward true equality, together.
People aren't surprised when I tell them there are 13,000 Covid-19 cases outside China, or when I tell them this number doubles every 3 days. But when I tell them that if growth continues at this rate, we'll have 1.7 million cases in 3 weeks, they're astonished.
Thank you to the entire @atrium team for their hard work over the years, all the customers for their love and $ and all our fellow co-investors for believing in @justinkan audacious vision. Sorry that it didn’t work out the way we were all dreaming about... Startups are hard :(.
Startup vanity: Valuation, Press, Funding, # of Employees, Offices, Meetings w/ famous people, Meeting to give lots of advice
Success: Revenue, Users, Word of mouth, Retention, Servers on fire, Emails asking for features, Meetings w/ users
Less than 5% of all bonds yield more than 5%.
Pension funds need 7% to break even, assuming they are funded (most aren’t).
Thus, almost all Pension Funds are fighting an impossible battle to meet future obligations.
They Broke The Entire System.
Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.
—Bruce Springsteen
Something changed in the US around 1980. I was there when it happened, and what happened was that the country shifted from a model that was a market economy at the macro scale but not at the level of individuals to a market all the way down (if you wanted it to be).