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Someone asked what's the most underappreciated quality in startup founders. I realized I could answer this by asking what's the most underappreciated aspect of startups. That's easy: how hard they are. So the most underappreciated quality in founders is sheer toughness.
My number 1 use case for AI is brainstorming.
Discussing plans, asking for feedback, 'challenge my thinking', and strategising.
It's kind of therapeutic
As a consumer, I scroll through pages like this super quick just to see the cool movements but register 0.0001% of the content and then leave the page and never think of it again
It is crazy difficult to get honest and up to date ratings/ pictures of a hotels gym/ spa facilities.
It’s always a big factor in my booking decisions
Although I actually think you built something to solve this!
I think fitness hotels will be a massive thing in the next few years
Every luxury hotel I go asks me "would you like champagne or wine?" during check in
Then you enter the room and there's a bottle of champagne waiting
Then you go to the restaurant and they give you the 100-page wine list
Then you go to the gym and it's 4 treadmills and and no barbell or plates in sight
I understand this is because boomers are generally alcoholics, don't work out except walking and they control most of the money; see how Bill Gates looks these days
But when they die that will be the largest generational transfer of wealth in history
The generations after them are more health focused, don't drink alcohol, want to eat clean and work out properly
One hotel I visited last year that fit the bill completely was Siro Fitness Hotel in Dubai (not affiliated, I just like it)
They had the best gym I've seen (along with Stay in Phuket which similarly is a fitness hotel, they had a protein shake bar, and the food was all clean meat and vegetables and health-focused
Health and fitness is more present in higher income categories so it's perfect for the luxury hotel market
I don't see many hotels market to this though, I think there's a lagging demand as they still think the boomers control most of the money, which they do, for now...
The more senior your role the more you need to sell.
Maybe not literally selling to customers, but you’re selling to someone - suppliers to convince them to extend your credit, potential employees to join you, shareholders to back your decision ….
When I first started out I thought 90% of the value was the ‘idea’ or just being there at the beginning of a company
Now I realise the idea is about 1% and 99% is walking on glass, eating bricks and just staying in the game for a long time.
The initial has little to no value.
There are some things that are impossible to imagine a future without.
There is no future without widespread robotics adoption in pretty much every part of life.
Whether it happens next year, in 15 years, in 100 years, it will happen and @Hausbots will be there
The obstacle is the way.
Shiny ideas and new things are the easy path, and just delay the inevitable of having to do the very hard thing.
The real value in starting a company is one’s ability to batter through unrelenting difficult problems, often for many years.
To most of the population even just 150+ years ago, almost all of western world now lives like literal Kings.
Effectively unlimited food, hot showers, running water, education, etc.
Don’t take how lucky you are to be a human right now for granted, kids!
Putting this out here as a sign to tap when folks respond with "things are worse today" or "middle class shrinking" or other wrong ideas they have.
Everyone should internalize and have these charts as core understanding of the world today.
The time price of everything has gone down over this same time frame (see Superabundance).
And while the middle class might technically be smaller, that is only because the upper class is much, much bigger. And fewer of us are in poverty.
Globally, and nationally. Things are better.