@svembu@nimivashi15 This is exactly the model we are building at Stedaxis from Nagercoil. AI engineering services for ANZ and Indian manufacturers. On the other side an AI-native system being piloted with a local fabrication shop this month. Five years of slow building and shaping up.
Board member of Coinbase, Pinterest, & TradeDesk, @gokulr, thinks credentials may be worthless in the AI era.
The man who built Google AdSense from 0 to $1 billion has watched ex-FAANG PMs and GTM leaders crash and burn in AI-native startups.
First principles thinkers with no resume are leaving them in the dust.
In this week's episode, we dig into:
• Why traditional product instincts break in AI
• How to hire for velocity & curiosity, not credentials
• Why customer relationships are the new moat
00:00 - Intro
01:00 - Who is Gokul
03:10 – Building Google’s Ad Model
06:00 – Metrics That Matter
07:50 – When to Ignore the Data
10:10 – Prioritizing Customers & Segments
11:50 – Knowing When to Kill a Product
13:30 – When to Build Product #2
18:03 – Hardest Moment in Gokul’s Career
20:20 – Founder Paranoia & Retention Metrics
22:00 – Culture & Early Team Dynamics
25:50 – What Makes a Team Scale
30:00 – Lessons from Great Leaders
33:40 – Sheryl Sandberg’s Decision Framework
Apple spent millions designing boxes you'll throw away.
Microsoft laughed at them.
But this 'wasteful' obsession is now studied in design schools worldwide.
Here is the crazy psychological principle they discovered which changed sales forever:
“Stop being patient and start asking yourself, how do I accomplish my 10-year plan in 6 months? You will probably fail but you will be a lot further ahead of the person who simply accepted it was going to take 10 years.”
-Elon Musk
"If I died knowing that I did what was right or did my best to do what was right and even If in the History books They said I did wrong, I would still feel okay about that. I care about the reality of Goodness and not the Perception of it"
-Elon Musk
Two years ago @elonmusk told us his ‘nutty’ idea to ‘catch the largest and heaviest flying object ever made and pluck it out of the air.’
Looks like it wasn’t so ‘nutty’ after all.
"The key to making life multiplanetary is full and rapid reusability. For building a city on Mars, you need thousands of Starships because you can only go to Mars every 26 months."
一 Elon Musk
The greatest thinker of the 21st century:
Naval Ravikant.
He was an early investor in Uber, Twitter, and Notion.
And he famously said, “You’re not going to get rich renting out your time.”
Here are 10 of his teachings on wealth that changed my life: