Max Marker

The hidden cost of bootstrapping

The core thesis of “Hacking Growth” ten years ago was the organizations that systematically learn the fastest grow the fastest. That idea is more true now and more urgent than ever. “This means the real opportunity is not in picking the best model but instead in building a learning loop on top of models where human capital and token capital compound. You can offload a task, or even a job, but you can never offload your learning. The future of the firm is the ability to compound that learning across people and AI.”

I just went back and listened to the album “The Eminem Show”. That level of quality doesn’t exist in hip hop anymore… #classics

As someone who is very particular about product quality, I give @function an A+. Their customer experience is outstanding. 1) Scheduling a blood draw takes about 30 seconds 2) Results come back fast 3) The depth of insight you get into your health is on another level

Higgsfield 🤝 Claude **Chefs kiss** 🤌

I just started watching Succession and I’m hooked

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day. 400 of them are now worth over $100 million. These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries. Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000. Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous." The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before. Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

@PeterDiamandis There are trade-offs though... What will it do to society if we live in a world of abundance? Hard work and careers build character and purpose. If future generations don’t have this, what type of people will they be? IMO it will breed a generation of entitled people.

Anthropic's CEO admitted AI job displacement may be "intrinsic." Here's my question: Would you trade the old economy — 40-year careers, mandatory retirement, dying broke — for one where AI cures aging, colonizes Mars, and generates post-scarcity abundance while you do what you actually love? That's not a threat. That's the deal.

The only way to get good at something is to put in the reps. 3 years ago I knew nothing about HubSpot & my process of mastering it was painful with a lot of trial and error. Today I’m rearchitecting an entire system. Just a reminder to trust the process & embrace the growth.

ELON MUSK: “We’re going to have universal high income. We’ll basically just issue money to people." "AI and robots are going to make so much stuff and provide so many services that they’ll run out of things to do for humans." "Money will stop being relevant at some point in the future." "AI won’t use human currency. It will care about power and mass: wattage and tonnage.” ME: “So just as you’re becoming a multi-trillionaire, money starts to have less value?” ELON: “Yeah, pretty much.”

People ask me how I stay so optimistic. The honest answer: I read the data, not the headlines.

80% of Claude’s code base was written by AI. Let that sink in. AI is starting to build itself and recursively self improve. cryptobriefing.com/claude-authors…

@opennews_x 👀

$OPEN June 6th Update 31% increase vs last week 623% increase vs same week last year Q2 2026 = new high on contract aquisitions (5424) surpassing Q1 2026 (4924) - highest since 2022. With 3 weeks left this quarter, still on track for 7000+

@the2ndfloorguy lol thank you for giving me this inspo 😆

i hooked my whoop to my work calendar to find which coworker gives me the most stress 🚨 thanks to fable, I reverse engineered whoop to pull per minute heart rate. nd matched spikes with cal events and attendees I now have a leaderboard and I think about it daily. few info masked for obvious reasons ;)

One of my favorite quotes - “Good marketing only makes a bad product fail faster” Which is a reminder that companies with a poor product experience won’t fix their problems with more sales & marketing They’ll fix them by listening to customers and iterating on their product

Fable 5 clearly mops the floor compared to other models, but also double the cost of opus 4.8.

You can hate showing up early, being consistent, doing what you said you’d do, keeping your word after it’s no longer convenient, and a hundred other things. You can hate all of it. You just have to hate losing, more.

As a consumer, if I come across marketing with em dashes, rhythmic sentence structure, or staccato language, I tune out, because I know it’s AI generated and inauthentic As a brand, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t use AI. It means your model needs fine tuning to sound more human

The only shots I’m taking these day - spirulina, ginger, lemon

@kianejatian @AshleyItliong See ya next week 😎

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