Building @share_willow.
New York, NY
Joined April 2009
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instinct is 100% going to make money via commissions on travel.
i only book and change travel via instinct now.
Do I have to wait until AGI to fix the cartilage in my knees?
Can someone deploy an agent swarm loop on this problem plsss
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There are so many seasoned software executives who are completely out of their element with the types of products that will breakout in the next few years.
Over the last 20 years, their brains were wired to build apps that deliver value by outputting deterministic results, but AI produces value from probabilistic results. This is such a different way to approach how something should work.
Young people who are thinking in this way from the outset will be at a significant advantage -- in the same way they were advantaged when thinking about how products could be social in 2010.
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Most of my motion videos are now done fully by agents.
Best approach I found looks sth like this:
- Scribble out the rough storyboard
- Hand it to an agent with a short description
- Agent builds each scene with real components from the codebase
- Skills & references handle the camera, transitions, cuts, easing and pacing
It's impressive how fast you can get to sth solid, if you have the right workflow & skills.
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Granola runs ~1,700 ads on Meta alone
SF forgot paid ads exist while every $0→$100M AI startup runs them on steroids:
> Cursor - 1,100 active ads / 6,400 tested🤯
> Wispr Flow - 820 / 3,300
> Emergent -410 / 7,000
> Replit - 110 / 5,500
> Base44 - 560 / 2,100
> HeyGen -400 / 1,700
> Viktor - 620 / 1,300
> Lovable - 300 / 990
> Gamma - 110 / 350
> Framer - 710 / 2500
> Superhuman & Grammarly - 71 / 1800
(Data from Meta Ads Library)
Ads are cool again!
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.@owner has rocketed past $100M ARR automating everything for restaurants with AI, and 83% of its new customers now start inside an AI product
But it hasn't quite been that simple, or straightfoward
The top 7 lessons from @AdamGuild's rebuild:
#1. Your customer should never have to log in
Every login to fix what the software did is a failure. That breaks your pricing, your funnel, and your board deck.
#2. An LLM can build a website. Only Owner knows which version sells more food
They check 90 SEO and CRO factors and have order data from thousands of live restaurant sites. The model has none of that.
#3. Customer research goes stale in 90 days
Owner's own interviews said restaurant owners feared AI. Three months later a pizzeria owner scanned a QR code at their booth and proved it wrong.
#4. Your devs already have Claude Code. Almost nobody has an agent handling coordination
Owen does 90% of Owner's builder coordination and files PRs straight out of Slack.
#5. AI doesn't necessarily make you leaner
Owner is hiring more builders because demand outruns what they can ship. That only works if you have the demand.
#6. When someone says AI saved their reps time, ask what it did to revenue
More call volume is an input. $2M+ in ARR per rep is the result.
#7. Measure how long you take to go from customer complaint to shipped
A restaurant owner complained on a Friday. Adam shipped the fix Saturday afternoon
youtu.be/sJM9BrgpxwI?si=uhcY…
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Avoiding hierarchy as you scale — 10 things that actually work:
1/ Don't have an office. Sit with the employees.
2/ Sit in customer support and take calls every couple of weeks. Multiple benefits!
3/ Publicly praise people who disagree with you on Slack or the wiki.
4/ Push for 15:1ish reporting ratios. Flat orgs move faster.
5/ Host quarterly dinners at your house with 8 people who don't report to you. Multiple benefits!!
6/ If you fly private, shut up about it.
7/ Bring non-direct-reports to offsites.
8/ Get good at assigning DRIs who can drive projects across org boundaries. Single owner, no committee. …If you ask a committee to look after your plants while youre away, you’ll come back to dead plants.
9/ Take hard questions at all-hands and don't spin. If you need to think on a tricky one, say so — then actually follow up on slavk, wiki, wherever.
10/ Publish your priorities publicly. Transparency kills hierarchy faster than any org redesign.
Bonus/ Jensen is mostky right. Dirrct report 1:1’s should only last a short while. Criticizing (with care) and praising in public irks, but works.
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I’m a plumbing company owner and I’m using Grok @bot to automate a ton of office manager work. Here’s what I’ve done in the last 24 hours:
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Entrepreneurship is like a marathon.
The longer you stick around, the thinner the crowd gets.
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Met a 4x successful entrepreneur last night ($100m+ in exits) who told me the most important thing to do in your early career is to follow the right leader
You should look for three things in a leader:
1. Competence - they are excellent at their craft and leading ppl.
2. Character - they are high integrity, a person you can trust to put your interests first.
3. Ambition - they are motivated to push themselves and their teams forward.
It is extremely rare to work for someone who meets all three criteria.
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.@travisk's pitch for why young people should join his new startup Atoms:
"I'm not out there pitching some lame-sauce dude who doesn't want to work... This is why Atoms is cool. You're not dropping an app in the App Store. You're automating a 2 million pound machine [in the Amazon] going 35mph carrying gold."
Claude routine integrated w Whoop and Nest thermostat that changes your temperature based on sleep zones (similar to how 8sleep changes mattress temp).
Gonna try and report back on improvement in overall sleep quality.
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Introducing Vendo (YC S26), the customization layer that lets your users build their own features and micro-apps on top of your product
For 50 years, software has been shipped one way for everyone. That era is over.
With Vendo, every user shapes your product into exactly what they need. This is what software of the agentic era will look like. This is Vendo.
One command to install. Open source.
@runvendo @nourzahzah
just dropped this 2026 technician comp benchmark report.
filter by industry and city/state.
see avg technician pay.
access free: pay.sharewillow.com
everyday i have claude review our previous day's calls on avoma and then create 3 instagram posts and stories based on learnings from those calls.
