Peter Botting

Are you a business leader? Whether you lead a team or a business, of any size, you have an additional title on top of the one in your LinkedIn. You are the Chief Storytelling Officer. You have three audiences. Upwards, outwards, and downwards. Downwards is your existing team, and those you are trying to recruit. If you want a team of A players, believers rather than pay cheque people - you need to be a great storyteller. Outwards could be podcasts, analysts, the media, large stages such as conferences and TED style stages. How good your story is, and how well you tell it, has a massive impact on perceptions of your and your business. Upwards is whoever you answer to, the Board or investors/shareholders. This affects how they see you and will impact on your career. All three of these audiences respond to your storytelling ability - whether it is good or bad. Being a great storyteller could extend your tenure at the top by years. Being bad at storytelling WILL shorten it. The good news is that your storytelling ability is a variable, one of the very few, that you CAN influence and improve. Clients of mine have improved A player recruitment and retention and reduced unwanted churn. They have turned employees into believers. They have improved margins. They have improved the perceptions of their business and themselves. Whatever your leadership title, you are the Chief Storytelling Officer of your career and your business or department. I can help you become a better storyteller. Is it a crazy idea to set up a chemistry test and do an audit of where you are now? #leadershipcoach #storytellingcoach #speakercoach #executiveinterviewcoach

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When @travisk was fundraising Uber's round that valued it at $70B, he ran four rooms simultaneously out of their New York office for an entire week, each booked in 90-minute slots across 12-hour days: "This is how we'd fundraise: we had four rooms in our New York office booked for a week with an hour-and-a-half slot on each. So for 12 hours in a day, four rooms going in parallel." "I'm in the $250M-and-over club, that's one room. Then there are these other rooms, down to the fourth room, which is like $25M checks. There's a guy who works for a guy, who works for a guy, who works for me who's doing that room." "But we're oversubscribed. So we started putting multiple investors in the same room. We were like, 'We're just out of slots dude. Let's go.'" "The storytelling we did, anybody on my team could tell that story and make it happen. And that was a big part. It was the story... then there is making it scalable so that there are 10 different people in a company that can pitch it at any given time. And that’s when you take it all the way."

I'm not normally in the limelight, so I'll take this, lol!☺️

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Drone delivery startup Zipline raised $600M+, boosting its valuation to $7.6B, and says it has now completed 2M+ commercial deliveries of 20M different items (@edludlow / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… #a260120p44" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260120/p44#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Looks like Labour will go into the next election against the Lib Dem’s, the Conservatives and the Reformatives.

Karp: "Every single tech company in the world is going to be paid based on value creation. Maybe that's not completely true today, but it will be true tomorrow." "The future is going to be: you create X value, I pay you Y." "Larger companies struggle to move from 'I get paid because you can't get rid of me' to 'I get paid because you don't want to get rid of me.'"

This is way more impressive than some of you may realize.

Nailed it

@mikefutia YT

This YouTube AI Agent is f*cking wild 🤯 This n8n agent scrapes top-performing YouTube videos in any niche... Pulls full transcripts... And extracts every hook, angle, and theme automatically. All inside n8n + Airtable. Perfect for DTC brands & agencies who want to know what's working on YouTube before creating a single ad. Here's the problem: You're spending hours "researching" YouTube. Watching video after video. Scribbling notes. Trying to reverse-engineer why that one video blew up. By the time you've pulled anything useful, half your day is gone. This n8n agent does it in minutes: → Enter any keyword (e.g., "rucking", "cold plunge", "protein powder") → Scrapes top YouTube videos with full transcripts → Logs everything to Airtable—views, likes, publish date → Gemini analyzes each transcript automatically → Extracts hooks, angles, and themes from every video No watching hours of content. No manual note-taking. No "let me rewatch that part" loops. What lands in your Airtable: - Video URL, title, channel, and performance metrics - AI-extracted hooks (what grabbed attention in the first 10 seconds) - Angles (the unique claim or perspective that worked) - Themes (the narrative structure driving the video) - Full transcripts for deeper research Built 100% in n8n. Want the complete n8n workflow + Airtable base? > Comment "YT" > Like this post And I'll send it over (must be following so I can DM)

I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.

Sometimes we need to be shaken in order to stand up again …

Things that didn’t exist on Christmas 25 years ago: Airbnb
AirPods
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Instagram
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SpaceX
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Yep. And people looked at me like I was a pretentious wannabe show off when I used it. It was kinda embarrassing using it! Had to keep trying to convince myself I was cool. 🤣🤣🙄🤣

1993 for me. I felt SO cool and revolutionary! 🤣

On this day in 1987, Wall Street premiered. This phone would cost $12,000 in today’s prices. It took 10 hours to charge and the battery lasted 30 minutes.

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