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Steve Jobs on why most founders fail
The sane ones quit when it gets brutal.
The ones who love it… keep going.
The “us vs them” slide is usually a joke.
Investors notice exaggeration. Be honest. Be real. Be credible.
This mini display creates 3D visuals out of thin air 🤯
It uses linear motion + light tricks to render full volumetric images.
Marc Andreessen says the best startup ideas don’t seem smart. They seem insane.
That’s why big companies don’t touch them. That’s also why they work.
“Breakthrough ideas often seem crazy at first, and that craziness can be a good sign.”
Balaji Srinivasan explains AI enables labor arbitrage at scale.
A US lawyer makes $200K, while a worker in the Philippines earns $2K.
AI plus human IQ convergence could push that to $20K.
A 10x gain for the global poor and 10x pressure on Western wages.
This 17-year-old made $350,000 selling donuts
Wakes up at 4AM. Goes to school after.
And still pulls half a million in revenue.
There is no king of the hill in generative AI.
Sora was on top, then Luma, Runway, and MiniMax entered the game.
Veo 3 launched, and two weeks later, Seedance passed it.
"If you’re not the best, you’re not releasing."
Tracking the frontlines is live combat.
Why did Flexport Co-CEO Ryan Petersen dedicate his life to improving the supply chain?
On the a16z Podcast, he says, “I might argue that the shipping container was the most important invention of the 20th century.”
Kodak invented the digital camera but went bankrupt from the tech it created—a warning for businesses that focus on profit over purpose.
On the a16z Podcast, Peter H. Diamandis and Salim Ismail discuss companies that failed to adapt and those that stayed agile.
💥 Sam Altman just declared war on Big Tech.
OpenAI plans to sell its own AI cloud, going head-to-head with Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
Altman says the world will “need a lot of AI cloud” and OpenAI wants to own the servers, not rent them.
65% of executives say weak business skills block careers.
40% of employees lack the fundamentals.
Fix it fast with these 6 frameworks: diffusion of innovation, S-curve, blue ocean, business model canvas, VMOST, PESTLE.
“I was too broke to drive. Then too rich.”
Alex Karp never got a license.
CEO of Palantir... still gets chauffeured by life.
🥸 Meta’s PMs are now vibe coding apps for Zuck.
Using AI tools like Metamate, they build prototypes in hours and pitch them straight to Zuckerberg.
“PMs are vibe coding products and showing them to Zuck,” said Meta’s AI director welcome to the new era of AI-built startups.
Prediction markets are quietly becoming the next big thing!
📈 Prediction markets trading volumes are exploding.
What was once a niche for crypto insiders is now turning into one of the fastest-growing markets in fintech
And the biggest surprise?
A year ago, Polymarket completely dominated the space — 40 million visits versus just 2 million for Kalshi.
Now, Kalshi is staging one of the most impressive comebacks in tech.
They have just surpassed Polymarket in total trade volume.
According to Crustdata:
▫️ September 2024 → Polymarket 533M | Kalshi 21M
▫️ October 2025 → Polymarket 4.0B | Kalshi 4.4B
That is a complete reversal in only twelve months:
where do you think this is going?
Prediction markets are quietly becoming the next big thing...
📈 Prediction markets trading volumes are exploding.
What was once a niche for crypto insiders is now turning into one of the fastest-growing markets in fintech
And the biggest surprise?
A year ago, Polymarket completely dominated the space — 40 million visits versus just 2 million for Kalshi.
Now, Kalshi is staging one of the most impressive comebacks in tech.
They have just surpassed Polymarket in total trade volume.
According to Crustdata:
▫️ September 2024 → Polymarket 533M | Kalshi 21M
▫️ October 2025 → Polymarket 4.0B | Kalshi 4.4B
That is a complete reversal in only twelve months:
where do you think this is going?
Prediction markets are quietly becoming the next big thing.
📈 Prediction markets trading volumes are exploding.
What was once a niche for crypto insiders is now turning into one of the fastest-growing markets in fintech
And the biggest surprise?
A year ago, Polymarket completely dominated the space — 40 million visits versus just 2 million for Kalshi.
Now, Kalshi is staging one of the most impressive comebacks in tech.
They have just surpassed Polymarket in total trade volume.
According to Crustdata:
▫️ September 2024 → Polymarket 533M | Kalshi 21M
▫️ October 2025 → Polymarket 4.0B | Kalshi 4.4B
That is a complete reversal in only twelve months:
where do you think this is going?
🌚 Elon Musk’s new plan to end poverty? Fire everyone.
Musk says Tesla’s Optimus robots will replace all human labor: making “jobs obsolete” and “poverty disappear.”
He calls it “sustainable abundance.” Critics call it a billionaire’s robot-fueled utopia.
Tech and labor evolve together.
Noah Smith points out two common predictions:
"Tech will never do this."
"Human labor will be obsolete."
Neither have come true. In 2015, we thought self-driving trucks would replace truckers. Now, there’s a trucker shortage.
