John Bourous

Partner Marketing @snowplow | Former @braze @amplitude_hq @census @button @simon_data 🗽🏌️‍♂️⛳️

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@JJEnglert GUIDE please- great overview!

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@henrythe9ths AI Guide

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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)

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@JimDaily @LinksDAO 👍🏻

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@JimDaily @LinksDAO Also can’t DM here but just shot you one in Discord!

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We won the bid.

WE'RE BUYING A GOLF COURSE!!!

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I just minted my Links Champion 🏆 by @LinksDAO

Tweet about minting yours for a chance to win a Global Membership!

👇 https://t.co/iZN2qM36xe

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@TheM_A_L You’d hope not. He might want to spend it on Trea tho 🙂

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@TheM_A_L Bracing for the DeGrom to ATL news

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@KFCBarstool @MetsFansAnon @KFCBarstool DeGrom closer for rest of the year whenever he’s back? Diaz setup? Look at Smoltz career stats for blueprint

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oh my. 👀

the moment you’ve all been waiting for.

only one winner for the grand finale.

what could it be?

take a wild guess.

wrong answers only.

*like, follow, and RT by 11:59pm EST today to enter.*

winner will be announced tomorrow 🔥🔥🔥

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round 2 of merch!

LINKSDAO MERCH MADNESS:

5 winners a day.

4 days to win.

*RT and follow by 11:59pm EST today to enter.*

winners will be announced tomorrow, as well as the next round of prizes.

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LINKSDAO MERCH MADNESS:

5 winners a day.

4 days to win.

*RT and follow by 11:59pm EST today to enter.*

winners will be announced tomorrow, as well as the next round of prizes.