Hiltin Guo, CPA, CA

AiriWheels| HKU&LBS MBA'19 | MIT MS'26 Data Sci

ex-Amazon Finance, ex-Marriott Int. Analytics & Strategy;

co-founder, uCloudAccounting, serving 1M+ businesses

[Hiltin Guo, CPA, CA @hiltinguo]

This is Steve Jobs’s 2005 Stanford commencement address, told through three stories from his life.
He opens by admitting he never finished college himself, so this is the nearest he’s come to a graduation. Then he lays out his three stories.
The first is about connecting the dots. He dropped out of Reed College because he couldn’t justify draining his working-class parents’ savings on classes he didn’t care about. Free of requirements, he sat in on a calligraphy course purely out of curiosity. It seemed useless at the time, but a decade later it shaped the Macintosh’s typography. His lesson: you can’t connect the dots looking forward, only backward, so you have to trust that they’ll eventually link up.
The second is about love and loss. He built Apple with Steve Wozniak from a garage into a $2 billion company, then got fired at thirty from the company he founded. It was devastating and public, but he realized he still loved the work. That freedom let him start NeXT and Pixar, meet his wife, and eventually return to Apple. Getting fired, he says, turned out to be the best thing that could have happened. The takeaway: find work you love and don’t settle.
The third is about death. After being diagnosed with what looked like terminal pancreatic cancer (later found to be a rare curable form), he reflected on mortality as a clarifying force that strips away everything but what truly matters. He urges graduates not to waste their limited time living someone else’s life or being drowned out by others’ opinions, but to follow their own heart and intuition.
He closes with the line from the final Whole Earth Catalog that he’s always wished for himself, and now wishes for them: “Stay hungry, stay foolish.”

[Hiltin Guo, CPA, CA @hiltinguo]

Probably, the way of Heaven is to reduce excess and make up for what is lacking. - 天之道，损有余而补不足
Poster designed by GPT, figures and content are cross-researched by human^^

[Hiltin Guo, CPA, CA @hiltinguo]

@paulg Mine: AM for partners/advisors/investors ; PM for customers and contents; Night for building and shipping products

[Hiltin Guo, CPA, CA @hiltinguo]

@maircomm @paulg @fede_intern Yep, "genuine authenticity" to me, is speaking on my own experience, value and perceptions, not faking any feelings or views - namely making the efforts of critical thinking from 360 degrees of an incident/input and emotionally/behaviorally mature on the outputs.☺️

[Hiltin Guo, CPA, CA @hiltinguo]

@SpotifyCares that's sad😅

[Hiltin Guo, CPA, CA @hiltinguo]

@Spotify just downloaded your iOS app, so I am your new customer from today, planning to move from Apple Music to your platform if it works well. However, I tried to find singer 张茜’s “逍遥最好”….not sure why your music-base doesn’t include this song…attached the YouTube link for your reference: https://t.co/HGsD4JBJDO

[Hiltin Guo, CPA, CA @hiltinguo]

This song is very meaningful cuz it is developed based on Xiang Guo (郭襄）’s legend: Guo Xiang is the younger daughter of Guo Jing and Huang Rong. Free-spirited, kind, and intelligent, she grows into one of the most beloved characters in Jin Yong’s novels.

As a teenager, she meets Yang Guo and falls deeply in love with him. Yang Guo, however, is completely devoted to Xiaolongnü. Realizing this, Guo Xiang never tries to win him away. Instead, she quietly accepts her unreturned love and sincerely blesses their happiness.

Years later, after Yang Guo disappears from the martial world with Xiaolongnü, Guo Xiang searches for him but never finds him again. Rather than letting heartbreak define her, she channels her emotions into a higher purpose. She eventually founds the Emei Sect, becoming its first leader and remaining unmarried for the rest of her life.

Meanwhile, the young Zhang Sanfeng is deeply inspired by Guo Xiang’s kindness and develops a lifelong affection for her. Although that love is never fulfilled, he too transforms it into purpose, later founding the Wudang Sect.

Guo Xiang’s life is remembered not as a tragedy, but as a story of emotional maturity. She loved without possessing, accepted without resentment, and turned personal loss into a lasting legacy. Through her, Jin Yong conveys that the highest form of love is not always about being together—it is about wishing another person happiness while finding your own path and leaving the world better than you found it.

[Hiltin Guo, CPA, CA @hiltinguo]

@SoCalSmokeSD Hahaha

[Hiltin Guo, CPA, CA @hiltinguo]

This is exactly the beauty of X - seeing people’s views are really different here, just from scanning through the comments now. I might be really the minority on earth. I do prefer people coming to me with some polished version, seeing me with their well-prepared outlook, acting properly after self-simulation or AI-assisted simulation. Basically, “prepared” before outreach.

[Hiltin Guo, CPA, CA @hiltinguo]

As a way younger dragon than Paul, I completely understood where he comes from - our attention is really precious. And we value genuine authenticity the most. however I would think a bit other way in using AI - if the person spends time using AI polish his/her language or check the rationals of his/her argument, before sending it to me, actually it means he/she cares about my feelings and the message context and logic perfections. I would certainly block a person if he/she kept sending inappropriate stuff, but not for someone using a smart tool to present themselves better in front of me. Just like a girl putting her making up for seeing you. To me, It’s actually shows respect and care. :-)

[Hiltin Guo, CPA, CA @hiltinguo]

As a way younger dragon than Paul, I completely understood where he comes from - our attention is really precious. And we value genuine authenticity the most. however I would think a bit other way in using AI - if the person spends time using AI polish his/her language or check the rationals of his/her argument, before sending it to me, actually it means he/she cares about my feelings and the message context and logic perfections. I would certainly block a person if he/she kept sending inappropriate stuff, but not for someone using a smart tool to present themselves better in front of me. Just like a girl putting her making up for seeing you. To me, It’s actually shows respect and care. :-)

[Hiltin Guo, CPA, CA @hiltinguo]

Ben’s <The Hard Thing About Hard Things> is my favourite book.

[Hiltin Guo, CPA, CA @hiltinguo]

Super! I always say: there must be a solution, there must be a way. Resonates really well. Very motivating, thanks for sharing. And happy 4th!

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Ben Horowitz to startup CEOs: “There’s always an answer”

Ben recalls Business Week writing a cover story about his company Loudcloud titled “The IPO from Hell.” The Red Herring wrote an article speculating that Ben was taking the company’s cash and setting it on fire in his parking lot.

“These things hurt my feelings… But most of the stress doesn’t come so much from what people in the press and people on Twitter think. It’s more how people in the company start to feel about it. You’ve brought all these people in. They believed in you. Things aren’t going as sold. And you feel that, and it’s going badly. And then it’s amplified if they read that you suck in the press, as they did about me many times.”

He continues:

“I didn’t care that they said I was an idiot. What bothered me was people who work for me would go home and their spouse would go, ‘You know your CEO is an idiot? I just read it here in Business Week.’”

As an entrepreneur, Ben had never really found a great outlet for this. He vented to his friend Bill Campbell who had similar experiences running a company called Go. But that didn’t help that much:

“We’d talk about it and he would understand, but it didn’t help that much. It’s still a struggle. It’s still difficult. You just have to focus your mind on what you can do… You can’t focus on what’s going wrong and what that might imply.”

He recalls an idea from Peter Thiel’s class on startups:

“He says there are people who believe in statistics — they believe there are probabilities, that things happen, and all you can do is run a process and it is what it is… And then there are people who believe in calculus, and they believe there’s a right answer. If you’re a startup CEO, you have to believe in calculus. You have to believe you can find the answer and that’s all you can focus on… And trust me, there’s always an answer.”

Source: @StartupGrind (Feb 2014)

[Dr. Theophano Mitsa ☦️🇬🇷🇺🇸 @theomitsa]

https://t.co/1DoptStzxK
MIT Found a Human Brain Hiding Inside Six AI Models
They never told the AI to copy us. It sorted itself into the brain’s exact thinking regions on its own.

[Hiltin Guo, CPA, CA @hiltinguo]

@elonmusk @iam_smx Thank you for being so inspiring and likewise.

[Hiltin Guo, CPA, CA @hiltinguo]

@jasonlk This hits home as it happened to us a few times…it really depends on how we foresee future and the calculated risk of returns on each possibilities.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

God Bless America

[Hiltin Guo, CPA, CA @hiltinguo]

@elonmusk Nice shot.

[a16z @a16z]

Happy birthday, USA.

[Hiltin Guo, CPA, CA @hiltinguo]

US high school kids are having a great time at China’s largest automotive factory. Airiwheels is very proud to sponsor @hackclub 2026 Fall Out. Glad it worked out while I am busy kicking off AiriWheels’ pre-seed in Boston. :-)