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@pierregillesl Belle perf quand même, gg :)

Tried to hit 39min on a 10K today… Total fail 😅 Went out way too fast and paid the price with a stomach cramp by km 2. Still managed to finish in 43min!

French Tech : Wavo, la start-up qui finance le stock des TPE-PME trib.al/htEWj9f

@pierrechappaz Aucun problème avec ces paramètres : j'ai seulement de l'anglais et du français :)

Des dépenses régaliennes (armées, sécurité, justice) qui représentent seulement 5,4 % de la dépense publique ; 1 200 (!) agences de l’État ; un budget justice inférieur à celui de la culture… Alors oui, j’affirme que l’État a besoin d’un gigantesque coup de “tronçonneuse” ! C’est le minimum que nous devons aux générations futures.

I’m stunned. Apple just released the single greatest pro-parenting ad in the history of American advertising. The pro-family cultural revolution is here. Watch. Try not to cry…

🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 Vive la France! 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 Ville des Lumières #Paris2024

zero to one, c’est demain ! 🎉 Rendez-vous dès 8h30, à H7 au 70 quai Perrache, 69002, Lyon 👋 Et pour ceux qui n’auraient pas encore pris leurs places, la billetterie est toujours ouverte ! → 0-2-1.eu À demain ✨ #021H7

Getting a rough investor update, (ideally with a little context) Still 20x more confidence inspiring than no update at all

GenAI poses a much deeper pickle for Google than I initially assumed... The last few weeks completely echo the time I was at Google in the early 2000's when we were up against Microsoft - except this time Google is on the receiving end. Looking back, we beat Microsoft not because we had better tech, but because we forced them to play on our terms AND at our "clockspeed." Many (myself included) were viewing Google's LLM problem as one of catching up with the technology - specifically OpenAI. It stands to reason that with all its incredible talent, infrastructure, users and data, Google can and will catch up to OpenAI and likely be able to build better technology. But I'm realizing that's likely to be wrong. The debacle last week (and even more, Google's response) puts a point on the real and somewhat unsolvable problem Google faces now. Google isn't going to lose to OpenAI tomorrow - it lost to it over the last ten years. The problem that Google faces today relative to the likes of OpenAI and Perplexity is very similar to what we did to Microsoft 20 years ago. What ChatGPT in particular has made us realize is that many of the tasks that we have so far labeled "search" and where we click on blue links are really tasks of research, analysis and decision-making. We viewed Google as the way to complete these tasks because 20 years ago, Google solved the most important challenge in that workflow, which was to bring all the world's information to within one click in the form of a search engine. Over these 20 years, Google built and has been harvesting one of the most profitable business models in history (remember that we used to talk with similar admiration of the operating system + desktop productivity biz model). The problem now, is that ChatGPT, Perplexity and others have shown us that A LOT of the tasks we used to think of as search engine-based workflows are even better served through an exchange with this new piece of technological magic (similarly to how PageRank made Google Search feel magical 25 years ago). The real problem for Google is one of clockspeed. Google all of a sudden has its ass on fire and is trying to innovate into the future. But, that innovation now has to happen at the heart of its business. OpenAI doesn't care about messing up an ads business model - they can just iterate with a product/quality purity that is impossible for Google to get. Google isn't going to lose to OpenAI in the coming few years. It has lost over the past decade, when it could have evolved/iterated AI into its model at its success-encumbered clockspeed. Now that the game is on, but on a startup clockspeed, there is no chance for Google to catch up and even less win this next cycle. This problem compounds over time, because every single day that goes by, we are all feeding OpenAI our usage patterns, feedback, custom GPTs, integrations, etc... At this stage, there is no way for Google to shift its clockspeed unless it is willing to give the middle finger to the market and its customers for a while and say sorry, the future beckons - feel free to opt out and invest your money elsewhere. The sad part is that Google actually has the wherewithal to do that, but few incumbents are ever able to pull it off. Meta/Zuck have done this several times (mobile transition, VR bet and now AI), so we know it's possible, but it is exceedingly unlikely for that to happen. People often think that's only possible because Mark is the founder, but I think it's because of his posture between risk and opportunity. I'll close this with the phrase that I think captures this posture: Our missed opportunities will cost us more than our mistakes

I've seen a few threads recently about the power law in venture capital and what this means for individual company returns. We looked at our data on 11,350 companies backed by 259 funds from 1986 to 2018. /1

i loved my time at openai. it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. most of all i loved working with such talented people. will have more to say about what’s next later. 🫡

Semaine de 4 jours, plus de comex, ni DRH ni réunions formelles, transparence, formation des managers à de nouvelles postures... Des mesures très concrètes et disruptives soutiennent la philosophie de @L_DLC - Par @ThierryPicq #utm_source=le%3Alec0f&utm_medium=click&utm_campaign=share-links_x-social-network" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lesechos.fr/idees-debats/l…

First-time founders: makes up for lack of focus by putting in more hours Second-time founders: recognizes the main thing is that the main thing should stay the main thing

What happens if you hit product-market fit, scale to nine figures of revenue ... but then stop innovating? What if you miss an entire shift in the market? That's LivePerson, an early help desk pioneer It's at $480m ARR today But with -1% growth, it's only worth $300m

If you aren't 90%+ sure you can IPO some day, for real, I wouldn't raise above $100m valuation, period, no matter what the metrics Not worth it You've made all the other paths harder and likely much less lucrative

The problem with corporate boards is that board debates are won by the best debaters. It's like letting Model UN determine the fate of your company.

Beginners founders think that they have to build a startup within a trending niche. Currently, it's AI, a few years back it was Web 3.0... But the truth is — the more boring the niche the better. Boring niches have lots of demand and little supply.

@abondance_com Merci pour tout Olivier 😀

La fin de l’Abondance? Que nenni !: Après 30 ans d'Internet et plus de 26 ans de SEO, j'ai pensé qu'il était temps pour moi de visiter d'autres rives et de changer de métier. Une autre équipe va donc désormais veiller à la destinée… dlvr.it/Sk9Xg2 #seo #abondance

investors take way too much credit for successes and not nearly enough responsibility for failures, and this drives founders crazy to a degree that’s hard to explain

Your $0/mo startup doesn't need "forgot my password" functionality. It just needs paying customers.