It's an amazing time to be building with ai except the part where every second I spend shipping and not trying to figure out the newest thing I feel like I am falling behind
Maybe it's the boomer in me but I really like having different channels in my agentic tools like grok bot and find single threads a mess for anything beyond a random one off
Pro rata mostly sucks as a founder. If your round is soft and new investors see early investors aren't taking their pro rata it's a really bad sign. If your round is hot you now have early investors that didn't help (besides sending a wire) aggressively defending their territory
The true gift of product market fit I am most excited about is no longer having to be performative on social
People will have an agent they use for work, a different one for their personal life and then a third vindictive one to aim at opps
"people can actually write this shit?", me every time I see even a small amount of the code for something I am building
Using AI to build fake companies to then shut down and sell our internal data to AI labs for training
13 year old me would be so disappointed to learn this is the kind of models we work with when we grow up
Not sure a company has ever made a bigger bet than Facebook did on the Metaverse and have it be so wrong and not kill the company. Wild these guys are in even stronger position now. Next level impressive.
Been a venture backed ceo for 15+ years and basically nothing pre 2026 means shit anymore so I am actually only 9 months in on this job
Once I get past the "go fuck yourself" stage of getting feedback it usually turns out to be pretty valuable


