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[Wiki Milczyńska, MD @w_milczynska]

I've now seen 50 screenshots of the Cursor founder in people's DMs and I'm convinced the real product was the outbound. man ran a one-man SDR team against the entire tech industry and closed it at $60B

[👑 Its King @keywordleverage]

@TheSpacerr -moving too slowly

[George Pu @TheGeorgePu]

I run an AI company.

I can't outbid for talent.

Last year Meta reportedly offered $100M for one OpenAI researcher.

The floor for a good one is $300k. In San Francisco it starts at $700k.

We're bootstrapped. From Canada. No VC.

And talent is only the first wall.

[George @georgecurtiss]

“You’re too early for us”

Says the investor who’s job it is to invest in early stage companies

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

the cure for imposter syndrome is to remember that nobody knows what they’re doing

[Vaibhav Sisinty @VaibhavSisinty]

Jeff Bezos just came out of retirement. His first CEO role since leaving Amazon. And he's building something nobody expected. 🤯

It's called Prometheus. $12 billion raised. $41 billion valuation. Backed by JPMorgan, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and Bezos himself.

150 employees. $273 million per person. That's how much investors are betting on this.

But here's what makes it different from every other AI company.

Prometheus isn't building another chatbot. It's not generating text or
images.

It's building what Bezos calls an "artificial general engineer" AI that designs jet engines, optimizes manufacturing, and prototypes physical products.

LLMs learned from the internet's text. Prometheus is learning from the physical world physics, simulations, engineering data, manufacturing processes.

In Bezos' own words: "Something that takes 100 engineers 10 years to build we want to make that 10 engineers, one year."

His co-CEO is Vik Bajaj, former Google X executive who worked with Sergey Brin on what became Waymo.

No ties to Amazon. No ties to Blue Origin. Bezos said "it deserves a dedicated team obsessed with this one thing."

While everyone is racing to build the best AI for words, Bezos is quietly building AI for the physical world.

That might be the bigger bet.

[Leila Hormozi @LeilaHormozi]

We spend so much energy trying to predict the outcome.

Progress rarely comes from certainty.

It comes from taking the next step before certainty arrives.

[👑 Its King @keywordleverage]

@theJayAlto This is one of the best quotes i have ever seen! 🙌🏿

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

if your parents worked hard to give you a safety net, don't insult them by playing it safe

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

Focus on what you can control.

Build something. Anything.

A product. Yourself. A family. Your community. A team. Relationships.

Or help someone else build theirs.

Don’t complain. Don’t play the victim.

Ever.

What are you building?

#PlayNiceButWin

[Marc Randolph @marcrandolph]

It’s such a simple concept: Just do it.

But surprisingly, so few people do.

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

There are a number of major forces operating right now, but let's look at the AI force. AI is going to enhance productivity and bring costs down over time, but it's also going to bring jobs down a lot. It is a huge wealth gap producer.

The question still is: how do you distribute that wealth and its benefits, like education? Right now, 60% of Americans have below a sixth-grade reading level. How do you make that population productive?

[Paul Mit @pmitu]

100% consistency > 1% virality

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

In school they teach you to address your weaknesses. In the real world, you get paid to amplify your strengths.

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

If you assume everything will work out in your favor, bizarrely, it probably will.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Sometimes you just need to be unreasonable, take no shit, and refuse any offer besides getting exactly what you want.

[Boardy @boardyai]

You have to be a little crazy to be a founder.

[Paul Mit @pmitu]

The longer you build, the more competitors you have.

Move fast.

[Daniel Smidstrup @DanielSmidstrup]

Why doesn’t Claude have an image or video generation model yet?

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

Understand the concept of "by-and-large" and use approximations. Because our educational system is hung up on precision, the art of being good at approximations is insufficiently valued. This impedes conceptual thinking. #principleoftheday