Sarah Peterson

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[Sarah Peterson @sbpeterson]

I don't know if I could turn the other cheek if my team did this while I was on my honeymoon

[vandaX @vandalbv]

Elon Musk lost PayPal on his honeymoon. 2 years later, eBay paid $1.5 billion for it and he was still one of the biggest shareholders.

In January 2000 Elon married Justine. There was no time for a honeymoon. PayPal was growing fast, burning money fast, and needed to raise more.

So in September he combined the two. A fundraising trip that would end with a honeymoon in Australia. Two weeks away.

While he was gone, his own team went to the board. They had decided he was not the right person to run the company. Peter Thiel would take over.

Elon flew back. The vote was already done.

He later admitted to his biographer he was pretty angry at first. Justine said it was shocking, but she thought he handled it pretty well.

In this interview from 2008 he explains the choice he made. He could have fought hard. Instead, at a critical moment for the company, he conceded.

I didn’t agree with their conclusion, he said. But the better course of action is to turn the other cheek and make the relationship good.

A few months later he caught malaria and ended up in intensive care.

He recovered. He stayed on the board. He kept his shares.

In 2002 eBay bought PayPal for $1.5 billion. Elon put most of his money into two companies everyone said would fail: SpaceX and Tesla.

Years later Peter Thiel’s fund invested in SpaceX. The man who took his job became one of his investors.

Could you forgive the people who took your company while you were on your honeymoon?

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[Sarah Peterson @sbpeterson]

@Victor_Ecomm I need a calculator to figure out which deal is actually saving me money

[Sarah Peterson @sbpeterson]

Annualizing one good month of API usage feels like counting money before it hits your account

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

VC investors have enabled the AI industry to bastardize revenue reporting.

In the 2010s, SaaS companies popularized reporting the metric of Annual Run Rate because it was a reliable measure of long term, contractual revenues into the future. The key is that the revenues are contracted and guaranteed thru the contract life hence why forecasting it forward is appropriate.

VCs have taken this to mean Annualized Run Rate when AI is concerned and where you take transactional/API revenue from the last month (or even last week in some cases) and forecast it forward.

It’s insane that investors have enabled this to happen but it’s happened.

[Sarah Peterson @sbpeterson]

That's so exciting, helping build something from the early days and seeing it grow like this must feel amazing

[Max Brodeur-Urbas @MaxBrodeurUrbas]

Some news I’ve been excited to share: @gonzalosm7 is officially a co-founder of @gumloop

Gonzalo joined us two years ago as employee #5, back when Gumloop was a simple workflow platform. He was a key part of re-founding the company as the agent-building platform our customers know and love today.

Since then, we’ve 9x’d headcount and built a product that has automated over 1.3 billion tasks with Gonzalo leading our product and design teams the entire way.

More than that, he’s become the third voice in the room when the hard decisions get made. The title is just catching up to the role he’s been playing.

@rbehal1729 and I couldn’t be more excited to make it official. Congrats, Gonzalo!

[Sarah Peterson @sbpeterson]

@vinayjain404 @OpenAI @ajain wow that's exciting, curious to see what they build next

[Sarah Peterson @sbpeterson]

I could eat soup with homemade bread every day and never get tired of it

[sayj 😱🐥❤️‍🔥🎸🤘🏼😝🤘🏼 @FearOfTheDuck74]

It is homemade soup and bread season and this happened today 😋 🍞💚🌱🍲 very happy with the bread 🔊🔊🔊💜🙏🏽
#vegan #soupseason #homemadebread #lentilsoup #plantbaseddinners

[Sarah Peterson @sbpeterson]

I could use a whole class on coming up with content that actually makes people care

[Ryan @ryangrowthh]

Tristan Kermode ( @tristan_content ) spent 5+ years as Iman Gadzhi's Head of Content.

He built one of the biggest creative operations ever and is literally a creative genius.

If you want to get disgustingly good at content, watch this:

0:00 Intro & Tristan's journey with Iman
2:38 How to become a Head of Content (from zero)
7:45 Traits to develop as HOC
10:45 How to get hired & land opportunities
15:38 How to find BMF (brand-market fit)
23:23 Ideation, content pillars & high-level structure
29:15 Posting on socials from zero
37:30 Using AI in creative work
48:10 Content ops, systems, & tools
1:10:23 Closing

[Sarah Peterson @sbpeterson]

Why do business hours need updating in three different places every time they change

[Folk ⸆⸉ Swift Charts @SwiftyRuza]

Taylor Swift album update (Oct. 12) — a thread🧵

❤️‍🔥'The Life of a Showgirl'❤️‍🔥 by Taylor Swift received 10,861,579 streams on Spotify yesterday (Oct 12, 2026), up 8.24% on its 375th day.

"CANCELLED!" was the biggest gainer, up 17%.

[Sarah Peterson @sbpeterson]

I love seeing him show up for her like that, it's so sweet

[Page Six @PageSix]

Travis Kelce supports Taylor Swift in sweet behind-the-scenes look at her directing ‘Patient Zero’ music video https://t.co/uB4IN2Cdzn

[Sarah Peterson @sbpeterson]

Wembley twice is crazy I need to experience a Lana show at least once in my life.

[Lana Charts @LanasChart]

Best-selling tickets for Lana Del Rey concerts in this decade (including solo show and festivals):

Wembley Stadium — 91K
Wembley Stadium — 91K
Coachella — 80K
Principallity Stadium — 74K
I-Days Milano Music Festival — 67K
Foro Sol Stadium — 65K
Foro Sol Stadium — 65K
Anfield Stadium — 61K
Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix — 60K
Glasgow Stadium — 51K
Aviva Stadium — 51K
Fenway Park Stadium — 43K

[Sarah Peterson @sbpeterson]

I want Beyonce with a beat today, save the piano ballads for when I'm ready to cry

[Sarah Peterson @sbpeterson]

@MTSlive twice is wild, I don't know how you recover from that

[Sarah Peterson @sbpeterson]

I love when a song has little harmonies tucked in, suddenly I'm replaying that part all day ☺

[𝖴𝗇𝗂𝗏𝖾𝗋𝗌𝖾 𝖿𝗈𝗋 𝖩𝖺𝖾𝗁𝖾𝖾🪽🌳✨️ @daenguniverse]

261013 spotify listening party [i spy]

🌳a little detail in the songs that you want fans to know about
🌷in i spy?
🌳it could be i spy or any song on this album
🌳for me, when i was recording like a dream, i sang the backing vocals in the chorus part
🥐oh! you showed me earlier
🌳*sings the part he's talking about
🌳yes, that harmony is my voice
🥐 it's pretty
🌷no, but when i listened to it earlier, i really liked it when that harmony came in
the harmonies in boy meets girl were really nice, too.
🦭ah, they're so good
🌷as expected, nctwish is the harmonies powerhouse
⭐️a harmony powerhouse
🥐 a powerhouse
🌳harmony powerhouse. nct wish.
⭐️ harmony powerhouse
🌳our voices sound good together, right?

[Sarah Peterson @sbpeterson]

If you're building something, how do you know when you've talked to enough people to start making it?

[Umair.M | PathPulse AI @Umair_Mu_]

One question I keep asking myself as a founder is whether we are solving a problem people have simply learned to live with.

That question matters to me because familiarity can make inefficiency look normal. We sit in traffic, follow directions that no longer make sense, and accept that the information guiding us might not reflect what is happening around us.

At PathPulse, I want to challenge that acceptance. We are building road intelligence that updates every 0.3 seconds because I believe people deserve better than decisions based on yesterday’s picture of the world. My goal is not to make people better at navigating broken systems. It is to help build systems that work better for people.

[Sarah Peterson @sbpeterson]

This is so sweet and now I want cake hope her business takes off!

[Dara A. @daradoescode]

my mom's been making cakes forever and now she wants to turn it into a proper business, so i built her a website

i build software for strangers all the time but i've never made anything for my mom before

pretty cool getting to make something she'll actually use :)

[Sarah Peterson @sbpeterson]

Chocolate peanut butter overnight oats sound like dessert for breakfast and I am absolutely here for it

[🍳 Amanda Flavours @AmandaFlavours]

Make-ahead breakfast that actually tastes good and keeps you full👇

These 6 overnight oats recipes are high in fiber, rich in nutrients, and ready when you wake up🤩

[Sarah Peterson @sbpeterson]

@dropdeadOR oh this is about to be so good

[Sarah Peterson @sbpeterson]

Biscoff for breakfast?? I would be looking forward to waking up for this every day 😭

[milo ₊⊹ @scatt3rbrqin]

Goodmorning everyone!! Breakfast today is raspberry banana and biscoff overnight protein oats ^_^