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Thank you for visiting this Nicolas Cage account. In this essay I will discuss why the unexpected masterpiece Pig (2021) is a metaphor for broad societal decay and
Thank you for visiting this Nicolas Cage account. In this essay I will discuss why the unexpected masterpiece Pig (2021) is a metaphor for broad societal decay and
I think some may have misunderstood the point here. It’s not that $1m ARR is bad or that the standard has moved north to some arbitrary number. It’s that revenue traction and PMF are more uncorrelated than they have ever been. Which actually explains a lot of funding behavior.
I think some may have misunderstood the point here. It’s not that $1m ARR is bad or that the standard has moved north to some arbitrary number. It’s that revenue traction and PMF are more uncorrelated than they have ever been. Which actually explains a lot of funding behavior.
The reason people used to cite $1m ARR as a Series A benchmark for software is because it was a proxy for PMF, business model decisioning, and GTM skeleton. Today, I would bet the large majority of companies with over $1m ARR or annualized revenue do not have PMF
We will absolutely see people build stuff to fix this. Recommendations are just deeply broken. For everything. Google reviews are useless. Listicles, don’t even get me started. Reddit used to be good but now it’s all brands in there How do you bring trusted word of mouth online?
We will absolutely see people build stuff to fix this. Recommendations are just deeply broken. For everything. Google reviews are useless. Listicles, don’t even get me started. Reddit used to be good but now it’s all brands in there How do you bring trusted word of mouth online?
So we have ~5%+ of US GDP dedicated to AI infra at this point And yet there is no agentic product that can successfully book me a flight without oversight And now OAI socializing a move towards biz model not directly aligned with model progress...
Excited to share our $25M Series A led by @ForerunnerVC and @Lux_Capital! More investors and stakeholders are energized by our mission to tackle America's retirement crisis and make everyday Americans owners of the economy they're building.
Excited to share our $25M Series A led by @ForerunnerVC and @Lux_Capital! More investors and stakeholders are energized by our mission to tackle America's retirement crisis and make everyday Americans owners of the economy they're building.
People are really trying too hard to be thought leaders predicting the way distant future based on an emerging technology where it isn’t yet clear what the ultimate capabilities or limitations will be, what ultimate architectures will define the adoption of the technology, or…
People are really trying too hard to be thought leaders predicting the way distant future based on an emerging technology where it isn’t yet clear what the ultimate capabilities or limitations will be, what ultimate architectures will define the adoption of the technology, or…
He had to explain the distinction between annualized revenue, ARR, cARR, GMV, and net revenue too many times
supply of capital brings non consensus ideas consensus quicker than they themselves can get there
supply of capital brings non consensus ideas consensus quicker than they themselves can get there
Affiliate > other marketing spend is representative of a broader societal shift. The world is now filled with slop. People want signal in the noise. They want to buy things recommended by people they trust, read things written by people who know what they are talking about, etc.
Affiliate > other marketing spend is representative of a broader societal shift. The world is now filled with slop. People want signal in the noise. They want to buy things recommended by people they trust, read things written by people who know what they are talking about, etc.
After paying this summer's electric bills I am now all ears to anyone pitching more efficient grid technology. What an insane feature of modern society this is
Gigabrain take. If you think AGI will replace human reasoning. And QC will soon be more efficient form of computation. The only vector left to capture value is the way in which these technologies interface with the physical world. So you should...be long robotics/embodied AI?

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