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Google I/O 2025 - A Race for AI Supremacy Google is building a vertically integrated AI stack from Silicon to the UX interface on Google Search. I break down each release in this post and deck. open.substack.com/pub/growthvect…

@BrandonLuuMD What do you recommend for long-term sleep deprivation caused by having a young infant?

Overall, sleep deprivation impairs you to the level of alcohol intoxication and causes significant metabolic harm, but strategic interventions (exercise, creatine, caffeine, bright light) can preserve performance when sleep isn't an option x.com/DavidPuder/sta…

Sleep deprivation impairs memory by up to 40%, glucose tolerance by 22%, and mitochondrial respiration by 18% But strategic interventions (HIIT, creatine, caffeine, bright light) can help prevent/reverse this damage when sleep isn't an option Here's what you need to know🧵1/13

Agentic browsers supersede the security controls of browsers and introduce new threat vectors. I evaluated the architecture of Comet and Atlas and suggest how Intent-based and semantic security design principles are needed in Agentic browsers. growthvector.substack.com/p/agentic-brow…

@tomcrawshaw01 SKILL

Writing viral posts will never be a struggle again... I packaged every context file, example, and framework that got me 4.5M+ impressions into one Claude skill. Just upload it to your project and Claude instantly references: - 20+ tweets with 100K+ views each - Proven hook formulas - Writing principles that actually work - Real feedback on what converts (and what flops) Most people prompt Claude with zero context and wonder why their posts sound generic. They're basically asking it to write blind. This skill changes that completely. You upload it once to your Claude account and it becomes part of Claude's memory. Now when you say "write a post about X," Claude pulls from battle-tested patterns. - It knows which hooks are overused and market-fatigued. - It understands how to structure posts for maximum engagement. - It references actual examples that crushed it. The skill teaches Claude to write posts that actually convert, and it never runs out of fresh angles. Claude gets better the more you use it together, because you can keep adding to the skill over time. This is the new way to add context to AI. No more copy-pasting examples into every chat. No more re-explaining your style from scratch. Follow + comment "SKILL" and I'll DM you the file

Agentic browsers supersede the security controls of browsers and introduce new threat vectors. I evaluated the architecture of Comet and Atlas and suggest how Intent-based and semantic security design principles are needed in Agentic browsers. growthvector.substack.com/p/agentic-brow…

“Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character. Character is not formed out of smart people: it is formed out of people who have suffered.” — Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang

I was a bit confused by the quote tweeted chart. Were there really that many AI companies making $100M in 3.5 years, that it was only a top quartile thing, given that ChatGPT is only three years old? I spoke to @jmelaskyriazi and he said his quartile graph is not an empirical cohort chart. That is, it’s not taking the revenue trajectories of 1000 AI companies and then showing that the top 250 hit $100M ARR in 3.5 years. It is instead an extrapolation of growth rates based on three buckets (he has a post on his methodology). Without meaning any offense, I think this extrapolation could be misleading. Because a true cohort chart that includes the countless AI startups that don’t ever make it to $1M ARR would show that getting to $100M ARR in 3.5 years is still amazing, and not merely a top 25% phenomenon. Probably at least top 5% if not top 1%, depending on what counts as an AI startup. That’s because the companies that quickly hit $100M ARR are typically ones whose names you know, like Midjourney and Cursor (see graph below). Moreover, Replit and OpenAI, impressive as they are, wouldn’t qualify because they were founded way more than three years ago. So: if you’re a founder, yes, getting to $100M ARR in 3.5 years is still phenomenal. And getting to $72M ARR in 5 years is also phenomenal, particularly if you can maintain strongly positive margins. Even with inflation, these are tough numbers to hit.

@bgurley @venturetwins @jonsakoda My MBA transformed me from an engineer to understanding how businesses work, what is strategic marketing & pricing, making investment decisions and raising capital, and building a culture as a leader. You can lean the slow way, or learn the lessons from +250 cases in 1yr.

@venturetwins @jonsakoda If you go to graduate school and don’t learn - that’s on you. It’s your time and money. Sam Hinkie made the most of a Stanford MBA. Demand what you want.

I never got an MBA but have observed that every generation undervalues their degree for their first few years. The short term math never pencils out but the long term value of real friends is always priceless

Hey there! 👋 Check out this thread on the latest AI product launches from Google released at IO 2025. 🧵 Google IO 2025 x.com/GauravInnovate…

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Google I/O 2025 - A Race for AI Supremacy Google is building a vertically integrated AI stack from Silicon to the UX interface on Google Search. I break down each release in this post and deck. open.substack.com/pub/growthvect…