Sam Farber

@noahedelman02 @theneurondaily You are a GOATED writer - amazing piece

naval says if you're making a four-year commitment, spend a year figuring out if you actually want to do it so after selling @theneurondaily at 22, I decided to test that closed my laptop, packed a bag, and spent a year trying things what I learned (link in somments):

@sama plz make a Chrome extension with the ability to select text in any tool (e.g., Slack, Google Docs, etc) and bring up a module to quickly use Chat. annoying to have to constantly switch tabs or open the sidebar view.

@ankurnagpal QSBS

QSBS is the most generous tax break in America today: - Start a C-Corp - Hold shares 5 years - No taxes on $15M on sale Advanced features can multiply the impact: - Gifting shares - Setting up trusts - Rolling over QSBS - Converting a LLC at $50M Comment QSBS for my guide

I’ve never met a sad person who works out

@srcasm @businessbarista @thecatmiddleton did you just cc your wife on x?

@businessbarista Oh what a good idea! Cc: @thecatmiddleton

Started sending letters to an email address we’ll give our daughter when she’s older. Daddy loves his little girl so much.

Free startup idea Brands currently pay celebrities like LeBron James, Serena Williams, The Rock, etc., to fly out, sit on set all day, and shoot commercials. This not only wastes the celebrities’ time, it also costs brands a ton (ie travel, production, logistics) But what if celebrities could simply license synthetic/ AI versions of themselves to brands? After approval, brands could legally use an AI version of the celebrity in commercials or cameos without requiring them to travel or film anything in person. If I were Cameo and Steven Galanis, I’d probably use our existing marketplace and relationships to get into this space… One click for brands, effortless revenue for celebs. (Their talent managers could even hit “accept,” so the celeb might not even notice LOL) I guess the key risk here is: how long you’d have to wait until the models are consistently good enough to make this work ?

@TrevMcKendrick they should’ve positioned themselves as the platform to create and run AI agents five years ago

@Samfarber_ Who did they blow it to?

how did Zapier blow the biggest lead of all time?

@maxmarchione Where do you get BPC-157?

Best investments I’ve made for my health: BPC-157 Lab work Omega 3s Air purifiers Toxin testing Mouth tape at night Trace minerals drops Microdose retatrutide Walking desk treadmill Organ blend supplements Resistance bands whilst on calls Buteyko breathing to lower respiratory rate

life hack: replace “should” with “let’s” Bad: "We should try this product." Good: "Let's try this product right now." Bad: "You should email them." Good: "Let's send that email now." Bad: "We should all go to Japan." Good: "Let's book a trip to Japan tonight."

@ankurnagpal Send it

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@henrythe9ths AI guide

There's a shocking fact about AI that nobody tells you: You can catch up to the public AI research frontier in just 2 weeks. Yes, really. I've built a $150M annual revenue startup over the last 8 years and If I were to start a company today, I’d drop everything and go all-in on AI. But like many busy software builders, I felt lost—overwhelmed by the noisy, crowded and fast-moving modern AI landscape. And I wasn’t alone. So I spent my entire holiday diving deep into AI research—reading 30+ papers, watching hours of lectures, analyzing trends, and catching up to the research frontier. ✨ Here’s what I learned: - You don’t need months (or years) to catch up. - You don’t need a PhD or decades of ML experience. - You need fewer than 20 papers and 2 weeks to understand the major breakthroughs shaping AI today. It's because the technology is extremely nascent and most techniques that came before are no longer relevant: - ChatGPT is barely 2 years old and Transformers are only 7 years old. - Most game-changing discoveries happened within the last 4 years, driven by a few breakthrough ideas, scaling laws, and efficient matrix multiplication. The biggest secret? Many groundbreaking AI papers with thousands of citations are surprisingly simple and applied, like adding "let's think step by step" to the prompt, or simply asking the LLM over and over again to improve its answer (Self-Refine). I realized there are tons of founders and builders in the same boat—wanting to dive deeper into AI but unsure where to start. I've created an essential AI Guide that helped me catch up, in just 2 weeks, to the frontier of public AI research to figure out where the next opportunities and gaps were: - Curated list of only the most important papers - Simple explanations of key concepts - Clear pathway to understanding the frontier of modern AI It’s perfect for: - Founders expanding into AI - Builders wanting to innovate at the frontier of AI - Investors looking to separate the signal from the noise 👇 Want the full guide? - Like and Share this post - Comment "AI Guide" - I'll send you the complete guide (ps, I’m also teaming up with @VishalVasishth, co-founder of @obviousvc with @ev (focused on large-scale societal impact companies like Twitter, Medium, Beyond Meat), to host a small meetup to discuss what's working and needs to be solved in the AI stack in SF. Message me if you're interested)

Just had coffee with a founder friend. "Yeah we spend $50k monthly on ads" "How's it working?" "Pretty good - about 100 demos booked last month" Then he showed me something that I honestly didn't know was possible in the B2B world... One of his power users posted about their product on X. Just a simple thread about how it cut their workflow in half. He also included a link to book a demo at the end. That tweet brought in 600 demo requests. In. Two. Days. Let that sink in: One happy customer > $50,000 in ads This changes everything. Your best salespeople aren't your salespeople. They're your happy customers because: • Advocates convert 2-3x better than sales reps • 83% of people trust friend recommendations • Half of all purchases come from word-of-mouth And they pay YOU to do it. Think about it - your customers are basically a sales team that gives YOU commission. Focus here: 1. make your product so good it's worth talking about. 2. build a customer advocacy program to make sure turning happy customers into evangelists doesn't just happen by chance 3. reward your superfans for spreading the word in ways that matter to them (not just free swag) & get out of their way That's leverage.

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my ambassador program with flownote is now rocking with 30+ ambassadors 🤙 next hurdle: streamlining comms to give feedback quicker. any tips?

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I'm in the giving mood. I also love brainstorming content ideas. Reply with a 1-line description of your business & I'll give you a free content idea that I think would drive traffic/customers if done well. Here goes nothing 👇

@connorjewiss @gregisenberg ^^ @gregisenberg

@gregisenberg @Samfarber_ any examples of how you'd rewrite it?

it's business audit time drop your startup below and I'll tell you one thing you can improve i'll be replying to 40+ people

@NWischoff In chi! Let’s meet up for coffee

Back on the road and will be in SF/LA/NYC and Chicago over the next 6 weeks. Reach out if you want to grab coffee

@vinmatano Attio

Best CRM for 1 person business with goal to scale? Hubspot, PipeDrive, or something else?