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[Garry Tan @garrytan]

If you're wading in the swamp of churn prevention, it's already too late. The product sucks and you're just trying to move a few percentage points.

The faster path to a high retention low churn is actually having a real awesome product. Everything else is a small side effect.

[Dan Shipper 📧 @danshipper]

THEY DID IT FOLKS

[Dilip Kumar @kmr_dilip]

Btw, one of my favourite things to do is to hang out with founders and remind each other on the mental and physical health. Founders Peak exist for that. Hope to see some of you in your city some day. https://t.co/3IIQJYNoxv

[Dilip Kumar @kmr_dilip]

If you’re a founder or work in a startup, you should know- no one cares about you. Not your employees. Not your investors. Not your customers. Not your insurance. Not your team members. Nobody. Everyone will pretend because they want something from you. But if you stop caring about yourself, you’re screwed. Your priority should be to work on your health- both physical and mental. Just the way you work on your startup. Else there will be no coming back. The number of people who have earned so much and are leaving it all to fix what’s broken is mind boggling. Your ability to bounce back when things don’t work is a bigger status symbol than your valuation or esops. You are the greatest project you’ll ever work on.

[Neil Rahilly @neilrahilly]

https://t.co/2QaxouWxxm

[Codez @0xCodez]

Google just dropped a 1-hour course on agentic engineering from scratch:

00:00 – How to build your first AI agent
08:24 – Build agent memory (short, persistent, long)
28:34 – Agentic loops, long-running AI agents
40:04 – How to build MCP (MCP vs API)
1:00:22 – Multi-agentic systems

This 1-hour watch will replace 10 paid agentic courses on the internet.

Watch it today, then read how to build a self-improving agentic system in the article below.

[Alfred Lin @Alfred_Lin]

Despite their success today, most forget that @Kalshi had 6 years of no revenue, no evidence it would work, and many crucible moments including having to sue their regulator.

@mansourtarek_ shares more on these in the latest Long Strange Trip. He talks about how he and @luanalopeslara co-lead a company now doing billions in revenue and tens of billions in trading volume, why embracing chaos is part of their strategy, and what they felt in those early days without proof their commitments would ever pay off.

Proud to be their partner since 2020, and they’re only getting started.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Here's YC's official advice about being truthful and precise about what is pilot, bookings, revenue and recurring revenue.

Founders, particularly first time founders, need to sear this into their brains. Don't mistake one tier for another. Be precise, and always be truthful.

[Christian Adib @AdibChristian]

Another banger by Gupta

[Jim Cantrell @jamesncantrell]

@multiplanet1 I worked with Elon in the early days of @SpaceX. This is EXACTLY what I have described as his greatest strength …. A total absence of even conceiving failure

[Ayman Al-Abdullah 🧱 @aymanalabdul]

THIS is the future of AI

A 24/7 employee constantly thinking about your content strategy

The research + CTA capabilities is worth the price of admission alone. The voice to text feature is the cherry on top.

Proud to be an advisor but even prouder to be a customer

[Phosphen @phosphenq]

Anthropic just dropped a 3-hour course on how to actually master Claude Code, taught by the engineer who built it:

00:07 – everything new in Claude Code
24:39 – Boris Cherny builds a full app live
55:38 – the complete prompting playbook
1:29:07 – the "thinking" lever almost everyone misses
1:52:58 – how to pick the right model for the job
2:24:22 – how Anthropic itself codes with Claude

This 3-hour watch will replace 10 paid Claude Code courses on the internet.

Watch it now, then read how to build an AI that codes while you sleep, in the article below.

[Jarred Sumner @jarredsumner]

@mitchellh Thanks

I do recommend using dynamic workflows. Then a single long-running context just writes and monitors workflows (each agent within has a clean context) + reads the results. This is what I do for any project more than like 300 LOC

[Alfred Lin @Alfred_Lin]

Solid tips from Immad. Some favorites:

- Be Weird:
The core of strong company culture is how authentic and real everyone is. If everyone is pretending to be someone else then its hard to have a cohesive culture.

- Be Very Careful with Hiring Execs and Leaders:
Culture is a very top down phenomenon. The company always needs role models for culture and a bad exec hire can hurt the company culture in a disproportionate way.

- Embed Culture into Company Rituals:
Culture can't just be a piece of paper.

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

New in Claude Code: /checkup

Run /checkup to:

1. Clean up unused skills/MCPs/plugins and save context
2. Dedup your local CLAUDE.md against the checked in CLAUDE.md
3. Break up root CLAUDE.md into nested CLAUDE.md's + skills
4. Turn off slow hooks
5. Update your Claude Code to the latest version
6. Enable auto mode by default
7. Pre-approve frequently denied read-only commands

.. And a few other goodies.

/checkup confirms with you before making any changes. Enjoy!

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

its impossible to overstate how formative jeremy giffon thought has been for all of us.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If you want to start a startup, don't learn "entrepreneurship." Learn how to build things. The hard part of startups is not "entrepreneurship" but product: to know what to build, and to be able to build it.

[GEOFF @geoffwoo]

a founder told me their best marketing test was deleting the word “platform.”

old copy:
“ai-native intelligence layer for field operations”

new copy:
“we cut pump inspection reports from 42 minutes to 6.”

conversion doubled.

buyers are not allergic to vision. they are allergic to homework.

[Pietro Schirano @skirano]

You should basically never use Fable for coding, but instead use it as a planner/orchestrator.

Most of today's advanced models can implement a spec perfectly, and once done you can send the work to Fable to review.

This has been my most powerful flow so far.

[The SEO Guy @theseoguy_]

one of my favorite Claude discussions

“I’m trying to accomplish [insert goal here]. What is the standard amount of time it takes someone to complete this goal?”

Claude will spit out some number based on some research

my next prompt “I have to do it 5X faster than normal or everyone I know dies. how should I go about accomplishing it?”

you’ll love the answers it spits out