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Spoke at the AI club at Stanford last night. 1000 people tried to attend. Seating was capped at 250. It was pandemonium at the end! If you’re a resilient, gritty engineer, PM, designer or GTM person, please consider working with us: - We have no org chart - everyone reports to me. We do this to minimize politics, titles and force natural leaders to self organize. - We are severely under manned for the work we have (by design) so you are forced to engineer your way out. Build solutions not orgs. - We will book nine figures this year and are growing very quickly. Our customers span all major parts of the US Economy. Hiring@8090.ai

@chamath speaking @stanfordaiclub with @BhathalTanvir0 @minisounds here are my 3 takeaway notes: 1. finite vs infinite games finite game: competing with everyone around you for the same promotion, the same fund, the same award. you win by comparison and lose yourself. infinite game: repeating your own process. nobody to beat. just the work. chamath went to waterloo surrounded by geniuses and spent years playing finite. facebook, social capital, all of it scored against someone else. 8090 is the first time he's playing for himself. >"when you're surrounded by geniuses, it's easy to get very outwardly focused and competitive with one another. and it is a huge distraction." - stop keeping score against them. run your own loop. 2. ego is the tax on external validation chamath at facebook: own buildings, own badge readers so zuck and sheryl couldn't walk in. project gets killed, he quits. not because the product failed. because he couldn't stomach how it looked. nov 2021 spacs: knew to sell. didn't. afraid of being called a sellout. got run over. >"it was entirely about my ego. it was about my need for external validation." - the people who make it ask one question: what was it about me that caused that? 3. ai's gap is symbolic, not scale long-horizon tasks and complex problems still don't work. throwing more tokens won't fix it and code is mechanistic. focus is on prds with the english-language understanding of what a business actually does + the hard-fought secrets (example: coca cola secret formula). >"you have to have a symbolic space that guides the embedded space." great to meet the @8090solutions team @sojoodi @TheOneAndArjun julia, and jonathan. keep going!

Naval on how to get a job in 2025: Learn how to use AI @naval on E215: "The fastest way to help somebody get a job right now: the best thing you can do is say, 'Hey, go download the AI tools and just start talking to them. Just start using them in any way.'" "And then you can walk into any employer in almost any field and say, 'Hey, I understand AI.' And they'll hire you on the spot." "AI is a productivity tool. It increases the productivity of a worker. It allows them to do more creative work and less repetitive work. As such, it makes them more valuable." "Yes, there is some retraining involved, but not a lot. These are natural language computers. You can talk to them in plain English, and they talk back to you in plain English." "I think we will see job creation by AI that will be as fast or faster than job destruction." "You saw this even with the internet. Like, YouTube came along. Look at all these YouTube streamers and influencers. That didn't used to be a job." "Go brush up on your AI. Learn a little bit. Watch a few videos. Use the AI." "Tinker with it and then go reapply for that job that rejected you, and watch how they pull you in."

Last week, @chamath and I had dinner. He had this to say: "Bryan's skin is incredible. His skin is like a porcelain dolls. Both my wife and I were like, we've never seen skin like this. It's incredibly soft. It's the softest skin I've ever touched in my life." Supple skin is proof of young biological age, and a power-law marker of systemic health and efficient rejuvenation. Let's look at the science 🧵

25/ Thank you @bscholl and everyone at @boomsupersonic for bringing back supersonic flight. Thank you for inspiring so many future founders, even those stuck in PM jobs at boring tech companies. Thank you for inspiring us all to believe that we too can just do stuff.

🚨NEW: David Sacks, AI and Crypto Czar (@DavidSacks) speaks about DeepSeek and the implications for National Security on FOX News

@jaltucher I have it taped on my bathroom mirror. Thanks, James.

📝Recap: Taking your Game from Zero to One Million, with panelists from a16z, MAVAN, Riot Games, AppsFlyer. My favorite takeaways from @DougMcCracken, Head of Marketing at a16z Games: - Marketers need to build their marketing vision around the game vision. It sounds obvious, but too often, product and marketing are totally separate. Make sure you’re integrated with the product on day one, playing the game, understanding the audience, and getting buy-in on everything you're doing. - On hiring for marketing: Startups will hire a doer who wears a lot of hats, which is important, but you’ll also want to hire someone who can go deep on the marketing of that product. - Why is brand important early on? Most people think brand is flashy, but really, product is holistic. I urge startups to think about building the minimal viable brand. Who is your audience? What is your culture? - Define a minimal viable brand to help you build the internal direction you need. Make sure you have a North Star. Imagine you’re in a boat—if you have a North Star, you’ll have much more direction than if you don’t, and you zigzag. - While you love your product, start with the assumption that no one cares about it. It’s your job to make people care about your product and to help them understand what you’re building, try it out, and hopefully love it too. #LATechWeek

Great speaking with @ScottWapnerCNBC today... confidence in inflation narrative muddled by March CPI, #taxday selling plus #warrisk caused a wobble. - then again, stocks sold off each of last 3 CPIs and recovered by 6th trading day - 4th any different? @fs_insight Get the "first word" at FSinsight.com/our-services #FridayMotivation