Tony Gauda

VP, Chief Architect of Security, Risk, and Fraud @Intuit Formerly @FleetCTL, @ThinAirLabs (@YCombinator W15), @Bitcasa, @Mastercard.

[darkzodchi @zodchiii]

Anthropic's head of security:

"90% of our code is written by Claude. If yours is too and nobody's reviewing it, you're shipping bugs you'll never notice."

In 28 minutes he shows the exact security setup Anthropic uses internally to protect their own projects.

Watch the full interview, then save the config below 👇

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

The sweet sweet moment you find product market fit (wait for it)

[Tony Gauda @tonygauda]

This is hilarious

[Enron @Enron]

Meet The Enron Egg, the world’s first at-home nuclear reactor. Watch the historic reveal.

[Jawwwn @jawwwn_]

$PLTR CEO Alex Karp is ripping analysts to SHREDS right now on CNBC 🔮🔥

“Intelligent people learn from their mistakes… everyone else becomes an analyst or an advisor.

“Do you want to believe what the librarian says about a book or do you want to go out in the world and see if it works?

“They have a huge opinion about how to handle LLMs. It’s completely theoretical and idiotic. If you want to manage LLMs or AI, the infrastructure that allows you to manage them is where the actual value is.

“People have been saying we are overvalued for 20 years. People have been saying our products wouldn’t make us profitable. That we would not be able to become a juggernaut. That we would not become GAAP profitable. That we wouldn’t get on the S&P. Keep saying that about us. We love it. It discourages people from doing anything like what we’re doing. And we are winning.”

[Ben Lang @benln]

Paul Graham one-pager on how to start a startup:

[Tony Gauda @tonygauda]

Great pillars to keep in mind while on your journey

[Sam Altman @sama]

what i wish someone had told me:

https://t.co/1nEaYimzXG

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

The SHA256 for this sentence begins with: one, eight, two, a, seven, c and nine.

[Anthony Vicino @AnthonyVicino]

Here's how I'd go from zero to $1M net worth in under 3 years if I were starting all over again:

P.S. I know this works because this is exactly how I built my first 8-figure business.

1. Pick a High Value Skill

You're paid in proportion to the magnitude of the problems you solve.

Want to make more money?

Solve bigger problems.

I recommend focusing on solving one of these 3 Universal Problems:

1. Health
2. Money
3. Status

Personally, my favorite problem to help people/businesses solve:

How to make more money.

This is the best kind of problem to solve because it's a virtuous cycle.

If you help somebody make more money then you KNOW they have money to afford your service.

Contrast that with getting a six pack.

Plenty of people out there would LIKE to be fit, but most are unwilling or unable to pay an amount that makes it a no-brainer for you to do the work.

So, my recommendation:

Develop a high value skill that helps other people make more money.

Example Skills:

• Sales
• Design
• Marketing
• Copywriting
• Lead generation
• Video production
• Social media management

Of all the skills you can learn, there are two to rule them all:

1. Sales
2. Copywriting

If you know how to sell and write persuasively then the world is literally your piggybank.

This is where I would start.

2. Get Good Enough At That Skill

Most people vastly overestimate the amount of time it takes to get "good enough" at a skill.

In my experience, you can achieve 80% competency in practically any endeavor with only 20 hours of hyperfocused work/practice.

Once you become "good enough" at a skill, I recommend layering in another complementary skill rather than trying to achive pure mastery of the one.

Remember, becoming an n=1 is easier than becoming #1.

So design your unique Skill Stack with intention.

This begs the question:

How do you actually get Good Enough at a skill?

Simple answer:

• Read books
• Watch YT videos
• Take online courses

But the most important step (and the one most people completely neglect):

Do the thing... a lot.

3. Deliver Free Value Using That Skill

It's time to build:

• Network
• Experience
• Social Proof

Network

You've probably heard:

"It's not about what you know, it's about who you know."

This is wrong.

Correct is:

"It's not about what you know, it's about WHO KNOWS YOU."

Right now, nobody knows you.

Experience

Knowledge is knowing the right answer.

Wisdom is knowing how to apply it.

Up to this point, you've acquired Knowledge.

It's time to transmute that into Wisdom.

This is done in the crucible of real life where theory smashes headlong into practice.

Social Proof

Because nobody knows you...

And because you've never "done" the thing for real...

It's very hard to get people to pay you..

By delivering free value first, you develop a body of work to be leveraged later in your pursuit of making money.

Okay, so how do we actually deliver free value?

It's simple...

Here's a copywriting example:

• Find ideal client
• Subscribe to their email list
• Study their onboarding email automation
• Improve it
• Send improvements via DM or email
• Suggest other areas you could help, but...
• Don't ASK for anything

Repeat 100x

Yes.

Seriously.

100 times.

4. Convert Free to Paid

If you did the previous 3 steps, chances are good you already have people wanting to do business with you.

Now, we add fuel to the fire by doing 2 things:

Establishing Authority

• Craft a compelling offer
• Create a landing page
• Collect testimonials

Overcoming Obscurity

Number one tactic I've used over the past 3 years to raise $25M in private equity:

"Ask for the referral, not the sale."

Go back to that list of 100 people you delivered free value to and:

Do not ask them for the sale.

Instead, let them know about your compelling offer...

And then ask them:

"Would you mind connecting me with anyone else you might know who could benefit from my help?"

5. Overdeliver Value

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

If you consistently overdeliver on value, you'll have:

• A full pipeline
• The ability to raise prices
• Proven it's time to scale

6. Scale

Every prior step has built towards this moment.

We have skill, demand, and clarity.

Now it's time to apply leverage.

But that's a story for another day...

And that's how I'd rebuild from $0 to $1M in under 3 years:

TLDR:

1. Pick a High Value Skill
2. Get Good Enough At That Skill
3. Deliver Free Value Using That Skill
4. Convert "Free" to "Paying"
5. Overdeliver Value
6. Scale

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

As a VC, I’ve graced Twitter with my expertise on epidemiology, international relations, and even how to get a cargo ship unstuck from a canal.

Today, I read the first few lines from a Wikipedia page about how banks work and boy do I have a lot to say.

SVB 🧵 👇👇

1/729

[John Bradley🇪🇺 @flypie]

@sentdefender I wonder if someone is flying balloons with various RCS across the US to see what stealth aircraft the US air defence radars can see.

[Tony Gauda @tonygauda]

@arrington Can speak volumes about character. Good call.

[Open||Source||Data Podcast @osd_podcast]

A new episode is here! Tune in to @sramji and @tonygauda discussing serial entrepreneurship, metadata capture systems, and Osquery: https://t.co/TK9HgYX9Ka

#OpenSourceData #Entrepreneurship #MetadataCaptureSystems #Osquery

[osquery@scale @osqueryatscale]

Stoked to welcome @thezachw back to the #osqueryatscale speaker lineup. Zach is the CoFounder+CTO of @fleetctl and a living legend in the #osquery community. Excited to have him take the stage for the third year in a row.

🎟's still available https://t.co/f3gjbdS6qK #infosec

[Sam Ramji 🇺🇦 @sramji]

I am psyched about an interview we just recorded with @tonygauda of @fleetctl, the company backing @osquery.

He led a whirlwind tour of using AI to understand physics and how data abundance creates a new design principle for the next generation of security. #opensourcedata

[Fleet @fleetctl]

💡@thezachw shows us how to dig up software using #log4j with @osquery and Fleet.⛏️

https://t.co/AuJiqBuvBF

[Mike McNeil @mikermcneil]

🎙️ Live now: See how you can use osquery to make it simpler and safer to manage your macs, servers, and whatever else you've got:
https://t.co/mAm44Fws7X

This month's @MAMonthly is hosted by @marczak, with special guest @thezachw, co-creator of osquery. See you there!

[Academia Aesthetics @AcademiaAesthe1]

1,400-year-old Ginkgo tree, golden explosion of leaves.

C/o Han Fei

[IG:NERAWZ @nerawz]

@electronutLabs we just started a IoT Sartup https://t.co/F1y0k5ki5U we like to use open source hardware for our projects.

[Shehan @TheCryptoCPA]

Web 1.0 - Read-only.
Web 2.0 - Read & write.
Web 3.0 - Read, write & own.

[Balaji @balajis]

All this money rained from the cloud to subsidize San Francisco for so long. The whole earth propped up this wealthy, dissipate city. Now it's over, and the failing state is facing a reality check. https://t.co/43g2i72bjG