Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and Square, on why the best founders never feel like they've made it:
He is asked what advice he'd give to people who want to build an app or start their own technology business.
His first response cuts straight to the mindset:
"Never feel like you've made it. You have to constantly innovate. You have to constantly push yourself. You have to constantly raise the bar. I learn something new every single day. And if we stop that, we would just build a small interesting business. But we want to build something that really speaks to the world."
Jack then addresses what he sees as the hardest part of building something new:
"The biggest thing to do, the hardest thing to do is start. You have all these ideas and everyone has an idea, but it's really about executing the idea and building the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea."
His advice for closing the gap between idea and execution is simple:
"The way to begin is to get the idea out of your head, draw it out, talk about it, program it if you're a programmer or make it if you're building something."
When asked whether there's a first mover advantage in technology, Jack pushes back on the idea that being early is enough:
"You see with any technology that there is always room for disruption even with the supposed first movers of 5 years ago. MySpace as an example was a first mover in many regards, and then Facebook came in and was another first mover."
@jack continues:
"At the end of the day you can't rely on being a first mover. You can't rely on being first. You just have to rely on constantly bettering yourself and constantly staying ahead of the game."
The founders who win are the ones who treat every day as a chance to raise the bar on themselves, long after the world tells them they've already made it.
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An engineer at Anthropic wrote a spec, pointed Claude at an Asana board, and went home. Claude broke the spec into tickets, spawned agents for each one, and they started building independently.
When the agent is confused it runs git-blame and messages the right engineers in Slack. By Monday the agents finished the plugin feature.
That's one example of how the best engineers are shipping software right now.
Developers will soon orchestrate 50 AI agents in parallel and the difference between a good engineer & a great one would come down to specs.
You can't write a spec that holds up at that scale without genuinely understanding what you're building at a deeper level.
The next-gen developer who understands the fundamentals, can architect well and orchestrate agent is going to be a 1000x developer!
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language interfaces are going to be a big deal, i think. talk to the computer (voice or text) and get what you want, for increasingly complex definitions of "want"!
this is an early demo of what's possible (still a lot of limitations--it's very much a research release).
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Taking Venture Capital for your startup is like deciding to play a game that is really easy for the first 3 levels, and then nearly impossible for the last 3