HUGE consumer milestone: we just crossed 1M "new users" in just two months since our Agentic launch!

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We grew to $1B ARR faster than Stripe, Salesforce, and Palantir, while being 100% remote This was a combination of a lot of luck, focus and an excellent team Looking back, I can our team's success boils down some key principles I'm sharing in a 700-word long post: I hope that it will help every startup as much as it helped us: 1. Everything is sales. Recruiting is sales. Fundraising is sales. Retaining your best talent is sales. Dating is sales. And sales is sales. A founder’s effectiveness = (technical skill × ability to sell). 2. You need to be in the details. The best founders can zoom all the way in and out. If someone tells you to “scale yourself” by pulling back too early - they’re wrong. Being in the details is important to understand what org structure best fits your company's goals. Every 'in the weeds' founder designs their org structure from first principles. Jensen: 40 direct reports, Elon: Engineers in charge of everything, Jobs: Creative Dictatorship with Directly Responsible Individuals. Zuck: The first growth-hacking team with @chamath Founders not in the details forget what makes their products great and eventually recede into designing a standard org with standard departments which lead to standard results. 3. Your company's fate is 70% sealed by the first 20 hires Ben Horowitz: "I got this advice like 27 times. They said 'Look, here's the key: Hire A players:' and I was like ok yeah, my plan was to hire a bunch of morons but now I'm going to hire A players" The hard part isn’t intent, it’s judgment. The problem is you can't spot a top 1% engineer if you're not a top 10% engineer yourself. This applies to everything. Your definition of great is just what you've seen. Founders have some blind spots. Technical founders usually build bad marketing orgs. Sales-focused founders sometimes build mediocre product teams. You need the right eyes to be able to spot genius. Ego aside, bring on a technical expert and have them vet talent for you. Your first hires are your culture, your standard, your work environment. They are the company. Get the first 20 hires right. 4. Live with your customers. You can’t know what’s working if you’re not talking to them - all the time. Be where they are: WhatsApp, calls, DMs, in person. The closer you are to customers, the fewer mistakes you make. "The customer is the boss. They can fire everybody by choosing to spend their money elsewhere." - Sam Walton 5. Be extremely responsive. If I reply in 30 seconds, what usually takes a day gets done in hours. What takes hours gets done now. Speed compounds. 6. Your TAM is limited by your imagination, not by the market. Constantly rethink the pod, find other big issues that need solving and are valuable, and solve them exceptionally well. We went from contracts ($100M) to Employer of Record ($300M) to Payroll ($200M). Each 3x'd the TAM. 7. Never run out of cash. The only way a business dies is by running out of cash. Profitability = power. You call the shots, not investors. You can always act in the company's long-term interest because you know you are safe. We reached Series A after spending <10% of our seed. We have been profitable for the last 3 years. Cash discipline buys freedom. 8. Over-index on angels early. Angels are your best shot at making important people care - when it matters. They might not be involved day to day, but when you really need help, they’ll show up. If you don't know how to solve a problem, you should know at least a person who knows the person who can. Pick the right ones, and time your asks well. 9. There's always something out there that can kill your company. Your job is to de-risk the company. Capital, talent, and products are all a small part of a larger effort to de-risk your startup and build an enduring business. Covid-induced work from home grew our payroll and EOR business. And it seemed like RTO might kill it. But we were prepared. If you worry, you won't have to worry. 10. Stay focused. Fundraises, competitors, headlines - all noise. Focus on your customers. Focus on your product. Keep executing. In the long run, the most relentless team wins. 11. Trust your instinct. If something feels off - it probably is. Dig deeper. Courage in your convictions matters, especially as the team grows. Don’t let “performative democracy” slow you down. As long as you’re in the seat, lead decisively - and unapologetically.

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Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency? Grok explanation is ~close: “Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path. People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next. It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

"'Work-life balance' will keep you mediocre," per WSJ opinion. Do you agree?

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Andrea, my 5yo daughter had this game idea and I vibe coded it with @PlayAstrocade astrocade.com/games/buggy-da…

We’re proud to announce that Genie 3 has been named one of @TIME’s Best Inventions of 2025. Genie 3 is our groundbreaking world model capable of generating interactive, playable environments from text or image prompts. Find out more → goo.gle/3KGqiYa

We're looking for content creators to help us produce video, from game jam recaps to tutorials to stories about our users! If you're a creator looking to work with a team at the intersection of gaming and AI, DM us with samples! For reference, here's a recent tutorial from our YouTube: piped.video/watch?v=sqplhrDa…

Remixing a game is surprisingly satisfying!! 🤯

Some Astrocade games were just born for content creators as much as players. Play (and possibly record) Wragdoll Wrestlin' now: go.astrocade.com/dg5

Memes are the crown jewels of internet culture. Sorta. But as engaging as they are, they’re almost always passive content like images and video. Why is that? And what would the world be like if memes became, dare I say it… interactive? A thread.

Casual RPGs are easy to play, and Astrocade makes them equally easy to create. Warrior, equip thyself! Play it now: go.astrocade.com/dg2

Astrocade makes it so easy to create games that you can throw entirely unrelated ideas at it and STILL get something playable. Fruit Ninja + Among Us = GUESS WE'RE ABOUT TO FIND OUT Play it now: go.astrocade.com/dg1

Even the weirdest ideas can be playable on Astrocade. Just type in a totally normal, everyday sentence like "I'm a silver ring riding a glowing line in space chasing diamonds." Play it now: go.astrocade.com/dg0

🎮🔥 The future of gaming isn't just about playing — it's about creating. Astrocade 2.0 is here to flip the script. 🌐 Start building your own world now at astrocade.com #GameChanger #Astrocade #LevelUp #GameDevRevolution #CreateToPlay

70-75% of people who have one kid go for a second, and yet … so many are scared to have even the first, they are missing out on life’s best gift!