Heather Devereaux

Thrilled to announce our exit to @SpringerNature! We’ve been co-building AI solutions for years, so this is a perfect fit. 🫶🐌

What problem are you trying to solve?

Several times in the past few weeks, I’ve referenced this article and the research behind it. If you really want to improve, seek first to understand 🧘‍♂️ hbr.org/2019/03/the-fe…

NO CHEATING. Type your name in the GIF bar and see what comes up. Here's mine: Yeah should have seen that one coming

Feeling down? Do this: Send a heartfelt thank you note to someone who helped you. Don't wait, do it now. I promise you will feel better 💪

Dutch govt presents vision for GenAI; identifies these 4 principles for responsible AI development siliconcanals.com/news/dutch-gov…

"It doesn’t hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to." ~ Marcus Aurelius

@mcgillmd921 Same!!!

What is your favorite Roman History book? Mine is I, Claudius.

Meet OpenAI's new board of directors

It is the *people* that matter in business. People are needed to lead. To communicate. To inspire. To build confidence and trust.

Being grateful is the best life hack I know.

Founders: please tell me more about who your buyer is and how you find them at scale. Thanks

@galeforceVC ⏪ Humbling ⏩ Joy

I'm doing an exercise right now... ✨What one word would you use to describe the last 10 years in your life? ✨What word describes the intention you want to set for the next 10 years of your life? What would you say??

A founder and his son had an AI startup that helped the family earn a living. One day, OpenAI released ChatGPT and tech twitter cried out “Your startup is fucked, what terrible luck!”. The founder replied “Maybe so, maybe not. We’ll see.” A few months later the startup doubled in MRR because ChatGPT educated the market on AI and it's use cases. Twitter shouted out “Your hard work has paid off! What an amazing MRR graph!” and the founder replied “Maybe so, maybe not. We’ll see.” Later that year, a copycat saw all of the founder's success and decided to clone their AI startup. Twitter cried out “You have a copycat doing better than you now, what terrible luck!”. The founder replied, “Maybe so, maybe not. We’ll see.” The copycat couldn't keep up with the sudden traffic and abandoned their project, which lead to many of their users coming to the original startup instead. Twitter exclaimed “You've outlasted the competition and taken their users, what tremendous luck!”, to which the founder replied “Maybe so, maybe not. We’ll see.” — I tweaked one of my favorite proverbs and based it on our startup story I decided to write this because nowadays, I see all this fear-mongering of “holy fuck ChatGPT just killed a million startups because of this plugin or that feature or because of this announcement on dev day” These posts are balanced by the headstrong founders who post the opposite of “well actually these changes are excellent for our business and now we are going to be a trillion-dollar company instead of a billion-dollar company!!!” Even if constant anxiety and/or forced optimism about the AI landscape was the optimal way to run a business, it seems like such a draining way to live Is our philosophy of marching forward and being generally unaffected by the AI landscape a better way to run a startup? Maybe so, maybe not. We’ll see.

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@tmrohan This kind of culture is fun for those that thrive in it. But it leaves a lot of people out - either by accident or by design.

I was lucky enough to work at Google ‘05-10. We were in the office, 9a-8p, Mon-Thurs; Friday 9a-5p. Saturday people took off (kinda). Back online Sunday most of the day. I think you miss something profound if you don’t have this work environment early in your career.

@notcapnamerica “Why are you single?”

What’s something someone can say on a first date that immediately lets you know you’re not a match?

@sophiaamoruso So super frustrating. And so super unhelpful.

How in the world is it acceptable to pit and rank female founders against one another? I appreciate and often envy those who choose to build a business with their head down — focus is important, and we don’t all need to be on the radar — but to explicitly dissuade female founders from being and staying visible for risk of criticism is wildly irresponsible. We already got the memo. Happy to fall on my sword as a casualty of misogyny but also hope we learn from this trash and give future female founders some grace.

The perfect strategy is a myth. Execution and iteration are where the magic happens.

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