Mark Thiel

Head of Projects → Building online | AI × PM systems | Husband | Father | 🍺 | Arsenal ⚽

[Mark Thiel @themarkthiel]

Wow! Interesting times, indeed!, 🙌

[Vivek Sen @Vivek4real_]

ANTHROPIC IPO VALUATION: $850B
SAMSUNG VALUATION: $800B

ANTHROPIC REVENUE: $30B
SAMSUNG REVENUE: $230B

[Mark Thiel @themarkthiel]

@willia_mbrown Yes

[Henry Shi @henrythe9ths]

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)

[Mark Thiel @themarkthiel]

@henrythe9ths AI Guide

[eye zen hour 🥶 @eyezenhour]

Mark my words:

This guy will be the richest man in the world by 2029

While Bitcoin's a big part, it's not Michael Saylor's whole story

10 secrets from his shockingly simple money-making formula:

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@heyshrutimishra Canva

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@willia_mbrown YES

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Quick and to the point... worth a share 👇

[Mark Thiel @themarkthiel]

I think these might be worth pursuing.

Anybody built/using one of these or similar Notion templates, feel free to share some screenshots below.

What do you think about my list?

[Mark Thiel @themarkthiel]

"There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all." - Peter Drucker

It's one of my favourite productivity quotes.

What are the top 10 most productive and valuable Notion templates for realtors?

Here's my list...

[Mark Thiel @themarkthiel]

10/10
Rental Tracker

- Automate tenancy updates and maintenance reminders
- Stay organized with maps and location-based tools
- Track properties and manage rentals with ease