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Joined December 2022
All the minds in the world, now one question away. Watch what we’re building at @withdelphi.👇🏼
All the minds in the world. Now one question away. We’ve raised $16M from @sequoia to build @withdelphi - create your digital mind & turn your expertise into living, interactive conversations that scale globally. See how our customers use it below 👇🏼
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Robert Cialdini (@RobertCialdini) has spent his career studying one question: why do people say yes? His answer became Influence, the book that's shaped how the world sells, negotiates, and persuades for 40 years. A psychology professor who turned decades of research into the principles now taught in business schools everywhere, his books have sold over 7 million copies. Advice from the world's leading expert on persuasion has always gone to boardrooms and Fortune 500 companies. Now it's available to anyone, whether you're closing a major deal or asking for a raise. Ask him here: delphi.ai/robert-cialdini
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Jake Xia earned his PhD at MIT, then spent 17 years at Morgan Stanley running trading and risk across New York, London, and Tokyo. In 2013, Harvard Management Company made him Chief Risk Officer, putting him in charge of risk for the largest university endowment in the world. Today, he’s also back at MIT, teaching how math powers financial markets and researching how complex systems behave. His digital mind is live, so you can ask the man who guarded Harvard’s billions how he thinks about risk: delphi.ai/jakexia
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Alisa Cohn (@AlisaCohn) is one of the world's top executive coaches. She has spent decades coaching founders and leaders at companies like Google, Microsoft, Venmo, and Etsy, and wrote From Start-Up to Grown-Up, the playbook for founders growing into CEOs. Most founders will never get the chance to work with her. But they can talk to her Delphi. Try bring her whatever you're working through here: delphi.ai/alisacohn
One of the strangest parts of becoming a founder is realizing your team can’t tell which of your ideas are ideas - and which are instructions. You think you’re thinking out loud. They think the strategy changed again. @AlisaCohn, named the world’s #1 startup coach by Thinkers50, put it simply: founders generate ideas, teams hear priorities. At some point, protecting the team means keeping some ideas to yourself, and being painfully clear when one actually becomes the priority. New episode of The Library of Minds with Alisa Cohn. Join the conversation with her Delphi: delphi.ai/alisacohn 1:09 - Founder Mode: What Everyone Gets Wrong 4:58 - High Standards Without Micromanaging 8:13 - Death by Being Polite 14:15 - Why You Can't Copy Elon Musk 20:48 - Founders, Please Keep Your Ideas to Yourself 22:48 - The #1 Hiring Mistake with AI 35:11 - Dealing with Imposter Syndrome
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Was going to Stanford worth it? Depends who you ask. Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis) Earned his PhD at Stanford and taught there before becoming Coinbase's CTO and a general partner at a16z. Worth it for him, he says, but he wouldn't tell you to go today: the pipeline to Silicon Valley is breaking. Ask him where he'd go instead → delphi.ai/balajis Celeste Amadon (@Celesteamadon) Met her co-founder at Admit Weekend, then dropped out to build Known, an AI dating app that's raised nearly $10 million. She says she couldn't have built it anywhere else: the people were the point, not the academics. Ask her when it's worth leaving → delphi.ai/celeste-amadon Dr. Elisa Song (@healthykidsl737) trained at Stanford, NYU, and UCSF and has spent 25 years as an integrative pediatrician, with a national bestseller on kids' health. Her answer: the credential was worth it, but her most valuable insights came from sitting with families, not a classroom. Ask her what the degree didn't teach her → delphi.ai/drelisasong Val Whiting Won two national championships playing basketball at Stanford and left as the conference's all-time leading scorer. She says the game gave her skill, but the real gift was the standard: everything there ran at championship level. Ask her what to look for in a school → delphi.ai/val-whiting Whatever question you're weighing right now, someone has already lived it. Ask them on Delphi.
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On Delphi, every profile is built on the lived experience of a real expert. Before you trust someone with what matters, you can explore how they actually think.
Great piece from @Bloomberg on how therapists are using Delphi - not to replace sessions, but to help people explore their worldview & values before committing Finding the right therapist is deeply personal. Now you can get a feel for someone before ever getting on a call
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In 2003, a 19-year-old co-created a piece of software and gave it away for free. It was WordPress, and today it powers over 40% of the web. Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt) turned that idea into Automattic, the company behind WordPress, Tumblr, and WooCommerce, now past $500M in revenue. Along the way he's backed 100+ startups and spent two decades defending the open web. You can ask the father of WordPress anything. His digital mind is live: delphi.ai/photomatt
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Julie Zhuo (@joulee) is one of the most influential design leaders in tech and the co-founder of Sundial. She joined Facebook as its first intern and spent 14 years becoming VP of Product Design, shaping products used by billions. Along the way she wrote The Making of a Manager, the book a generation of new managers learned from. You can chat with her digital mind here: delphi.ai/juliezhuo
Julie Zhuo spent 14 years at Facebook and eventually ran design for the Facebook app. Then she started her own company and realized she couldn't copy Facebook. Her explanation was pretty simple: “I’m not Mark.” @joulee thinks companies have personalities just like people do. Their strengths and weaknesses often come from the same traits, which means copying another great company’s operating system can actually make you worse. I think about this a lot. We spend so much time studying how Stripe hires, how Airbnb designs, how Meta ships, how Jobs presented... The useful question probably isn't “what do the best companies do?” It's “what are we unusually good at, and what kind of company should exist around that?” Really loved this conversation with Julie on The Library of Minds 0:58 - Why She Refused the CEO Title 6:48 - Delete Every Meeting but One 12:19 - The Oldest Interface Always Wins 15:40 - From Intern #1 to Facebook's Design Leader 21:08 - Writing the New Manager Bible 24:45 - How to Manage Agents
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Too many people I know got into startups because of The Social Network. @hnshah claims it ruined Silicon Valley. It turned startups into an outcome to pursue rather than something you do because you actually love building. And so instead of attracting true builders, it attracted hype-chasing tourists. He spent 20+ years building Crazy Egg, KISSmetrics, and Nira (acquired by Dropbox), invented playbooks the whole industry copied, and came back to run Crazy Egg again as CEO. Our conversation was one of the better reminders I've had recently that startups really aren't that deep. Have fun. Do things. Get in contact with reality. 1:02 - Bootstrapping vs. VC 5:27 - His Content Playbook Everyone Copied 10:25 - The Best Marketing Channels Are Secrets 25:52 - The AI Workflow He Figured Out Before the Frontier Labs 29:00 - The Social Network Ruined Startups 46:15 - The Only Startup Advice Worth Keeping
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John Zimmer and Travis Kalanick fought one of the fiercest wars in startup history, and it made both companies sharper. John told his side on @LibraryMinds. And you can go deeper with his digital mind: delphi.ai/johnzimmer
.@travisk on the little details that helped Uber beat Lyft: “I needed to subsidize rides to gain market share. When I gain market share there's a network effect because if I'm bigger, then my system is more efficient and if I'm more efficient than them, they have to subsidize more than I do to compete with me. This is why Lyft is smaller than Uber because we were better at this and people don't really know that's what it takes. But how do you get efficiency edge? Efficiency edge starts when somebody even downloads the app and signs up. If it's easier to sign up on one versus another you have an efficiency edge. If it's easier to call a vehicle and get it to you without problems, you have an efficiency edge because you'll have less support. If the cars are moving to where the demand is because the driver app has good ways to point drivers to the right place that means you have shorter pickup time, that’s another efficiency edge. And efficiency edge means you get bigger faster.”
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You can now ask @AlisaCohn anything. Alisa Cohn has coached founders at Etsy, Venmo, Foursquare, and DraftKings. Thinkers50 named her the number one startup coach in the world. Coaching like that has always gone to a handful of people. Now she's available to anyone, whether you're running a thousand-person company or a lemonade stand. Ask her here: delphi.ai/alisacohn
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Granola now connects to your digital mind. Your meetings hold the answers everyone keeps asking you for. Now they don't have to. Your transcripts flow straight into your digital mind, so your team, customers, and job candidates can just ask and get the answer in your voice, anytime.
Granola now connects directly with @withdelphi. So your notes can flow directly to your digital mind. And your team, customers and job candidates can ask anything and get the answer.
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Everyone's first time speaking in public is nerve-wracking. The people who are good at it now were bad at it once too. They just did it over and over until it got easier. You haven't had that time yet, but you can ask people who have. @GuyKawasaki's digital mind, Canva's chief evangelist, keeps it simple: speeches under 20 minutes, 10 slides, and tell stories instead of adjectives. Ask him yourself: delphi.ai/guykawasaki/chat?q…
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@BrianTracy: speak slowly, pause often, and know your material cold. Energy beats perfection. @BrendonBurchard: warm up your body and breath, remember your three key points, and open with a clear promise. Keep the conversation going with them: Brian Tracy: delphi.ai/brian-tracy/chat?q… Brendon Burchard: delphi.ai/brendon-burchard/c…
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Never ask "How are you?" Behavioral researcher Vanessa Van Edwards (@vvanedwards) tested the most common conversation starters. It came in dead last. It's a script. They already know their line. "Good, but busy." Ask what everyone asks, and the brain checks out. You can't connect with someone on autopilot.
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Instead, verbally trigger dopamine. Ask "What's good?" or "Working on anything exciting lately?" This gets their brain searching for good things, and you can watch their body language change. Trigger those positive thoughts and you become the person they remember.
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Vanessa Van Edwards can teach you to make almost anyone warm up to you in seconds. Fifteen years of research, author of Captivate and Cues. Ask her on Delphi. delphi.ai/vanessa
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Throw the best 4th of July party on the block. We asked three experts who take parties seriously. • The song: a platinum DJ says "Titanium." • The drinks: an international wine expert says the Mare di Sirena Pinot Grigio. • Your presence: a behavioral researcher says show your hands.
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Kian Katanforoosh (@kiankatan) is one of the world's top AI educators and the founder of Workera. He co-created Stanford's Deep Learning class with Andrew Ng, teaching the foundations of the technology now reshaping our world. He earned Stanford's highest teaching honor along the way. Today he shared his Delphi on the Library of Minds Podcast. The teacher who helped a generation understand AI can now teach you, one on one, anytime.
Should 100x AI Engineers be treated like elite athletes? Kian Katanforoosh (@kiankatan) thinks your best engineer could get the Cristiano Ronaldo treatment: each supported by 3 culture architects whose only job is keeping them happy and performing. At Workera, Kian is designing the future of workplace performance. Today we discuss: 03:50 - His AI course that taught 1M+ students 07:37 - Why we need AI mentors now 08:45 - Humans judging skill is unethical (maybe illegal) 13:06 - Success signs everyone overlooks 14:45 - The trap ambitious people keep falling into 16:02 - One metric that actually predicts success 17:08 - New jobs, and everything becomes pro sports 19:33 - How to adapt in the AI era 21:32 - The AI mentor Kian has to help you
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Should I have kids? We put the biggest decision of your life to three experts who think about it completely differently: • Personal Finance Expert • Astrologer • Parenting Coach
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Jill Wintersteen, astrology and manifestation, ignores the spreadsheet. Your children are already choosing you right now, whether you feel ready or not. The real question isn't financial. Does the thought of having kids expand you or contract you?
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Julie Fragnito, parenting coach, says it was never about having it all figured out. You don't need perfect circumstances. You need to want them so badly you're willing to do the hard work of raising them well.
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