Jonathan Maynard

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Okay. I'm ready to talk about this. It was the worst month of my life. Also ironically the greatest blessing god has ever given me. Last month I was held in the Cayman Islands facing 15 years in prison. The charge: illegal firearm importation. Here's what happened. More importantly what I learned. Short answer: no. I haven't been smuggling guns. In the States I legally carry a gun on me at almost all times for self defense. Part of this is ensuring I am trained. Hence why I routinely go to the range to shoot. When I do I pack the firearm I intend to use in in a backpack. Last month I was in a giant rush to make a private flight and didn't fully check my backpack before leaving. In it was a small firearm I missed. It was discovered when I went through immigration. At first I assumed I'd just be sent home. Then my wife did some quick research. She pointed out the minimum sentence for importing a gun is 15 years. The police who showed up confirmed it. To say I nearly pissed my pants is an understatement. This was completely my fault. I'm an idiot. The point of this post isn't to blame or complain about anything. The laws there are fair. I'm a grown man capable of checking his bag before flying. The point is: for three weeks on the island (on bail), I got to take a long hard look at my life. I've built a high net worth and a company I love, with people I love working with. I have a beautiful wife who is my best friend. I do whatever I want all day every day. My parents are alive and I get to see them almost every week. Still, despite all this, I often wake up annoyed I haven't done enough with my life. Asking myself "is this it?" In fact I'm pissed half the time, feeling I can do better. Which is ironic. I made $20,000 a year in the military. If you'd told me then I'd achieve a 9 figure net worth and all the above, I would've assumed I'd consider my life a dream. The twist truly hit me on the island as I watched everything I worked hard for in my life held at "gunpoint". Pun intended. Everything I worked so hard to get — poof. Didn't matter for shit. The way the law works there are simple : if you can't prove it was an accident, the minimum is 15 years. It became glaringly obvious. Not only was I an absolute idiot who couldn't pack his own bag. I'd also become a fool who couldn't enjoy the blessings I already had. I'd taken all the people in my life and the success totally for granted. Blind. Blind. Blind. Nothing like a 20-year potential sentence to make you realize: waking up with fun stuff to work on, then chilling on the couch reading with your wife at the end of the day — that's about as good as it gets. I should be euphoric 24/7. To go from having it all, to potentially not even having the option to piss and shit when you want — that's a wake up call if there ever was one. Luckily, the Caymans is a fair place. I was found under exceptional circumstances during my trial. AKA the judge and the courts reviewed the case and agreed it was an accident. I still love the island. It's probably my favorite place to vacation. Just check your luggage before you go. Ha. My point is this: be present. Enjoy your life. One day something could happen — even by complete accident — and yoink it all away. I have so many friends who'll read this and by all definition live a "dream life" — and yet are dissatisfied just like I was. If anything this is the default for most successful men. Not the exception. I'm writing this to help you stop. It took god slapping me across the face with my own ignorance to see it. It was painful and scary. Dark. But honestly, it was the greatest blessing I've ever received. I'm writing this from my office at home, giddy as absolute fuck about my life and everything I have the option to do today. If anything, I'm sad about how much time I wasted feeling otherwise. Don't be ignorant and stupid like me. You might not get the blessing of a 15-year prison threat in a foreign country to wake you up. Wake up. Appreciate what you have now.

Coming to Europe made me realize how great the tipping system is. In Europe the service is terrible.

It’s not high-speed, which is the issue.

@jibranhutch @quanmhuynh @Haladirofficial @BoxGroup @SusaVentures @seedtosunflower @Valkyrie_vc @ycombinator @Joshuabrowder Congrats 🎉

We at @Haladirofficial just raised our seed round, bringing our total amount of funding to $4.3M to build operational superintelligence. Led by @BoxGroup and @SusaVentures, with participation from @seedtosunflower, @Valkyrie_vc, XPRESS Ventures, and various angels, with prior round funding from @ycombinator and @svangel, and our first believer, @Joshuabrowder.

If you skip some or all of college to start a startup, it's on you to develop your mind the way college would have. And that's not something that happens by default in most startups.

Roughly 220 billionaires reside in California. They employ roughly 10 million people. If a wealth tax passes, everyone with a billion-dollar idea will think twice about whether they want to build that business in California. But that isn’t even the most dangerous part. When this turns out to raise less money than expected, the bar will be lowered to $100 million. Then $50 million. Then $10 million. Then $1 million. They’ll call it “the millionaire tax.” And since ~80% of the California population isn’t a millionaire, they’ll vote it into existence because “it doesn’t affect them.” But many of those “millionaires” are providing jobs. Housing. Innovation. Buying products and services. They’re a net economic benefit. If you discourage them from living in California, they will leave. Then it becomes a downward spiral where they have to tax everyone else to stay afloat. Not saying the system is perfect. But a simpler solution might simply be: spend less money and encourage more people to move back / create a billion dollar idea.

Imagine if Napoleon or Alexander the Great said, “enough conquering, the mission can wait until tomorrow”. It’s unambitious to maximize “wellness” at the expense of greatness.

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Yann LeCun was right the entire time. And generative AI might be a dead end. For the last three years, the entire industry has been obsessed with building bigger LLMs. Trillions of parameters. Billions in compute. The theory was simple: if you make the model big enough, it will eventually understand how the world works. Yann LeCun said that was stupid. He argued that generative AI is fundamentally inefficient. When an AI predicts the next word, or generates the next pixel, it wastes massive amounts of compute on surface-level details. It memorizes patterns instead of learning the actual physics of reality. He proposed a different path: JEPA (Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture). Instead of forcing the AI to paint the world pixel by pixel, JEPA forces it to predict abstract concepts. It predicts what happens next in a compressed "thought space." But for years, JEPA had a fatal flaw. It suffered from "representation collapse." Because the AI was allowed to simplify reality, it would cheat. It would simplify everything so much that a dog, a car, and a human all looked identical. It learned nothing. To fix it, engineers had to use insanely complex hacks, frozen encoders, and massive compute overheads. Until today. Researchers just dropped a paper called "LeWorldModel" (LeWM). They completely solved the collapse problem. They replaced the complex engineering hacks with a single, elegant mathematical regularizer. It forces the AI's internal "thoughts" into a perfect Gaussian distribution. The AI can no longer cheat. It is forced to understand the physical structure of reality to make its predictions. The results completely rewrite the economics of AI. LeWM didn't need a massive, centralized supercomputer. It has just 15 million parameters. It trains on a single, standard GPU in a few hours. Yet it plans 48x faster than massive foundation world models. It intrinsically understands physics. It instantly detects impossible events. We spent billions trying to force massive server farms to memorize the internet. Now, a tiny model running locally on a single graphics card is actually learning how the real world works.

@marty_kausas Super insightful thanks

Three of our early competitors are shutting down. Why? Here's what I know about each 👇️ Before I get into it, I want to say that I respect each one of these companies and their founders. It's incredibly hard to start a company, and even harder to win. Being in the arena is not easy. With that, here's my perspective on each. 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗔 This was one of our fiercest competitors for a long time. For a year, we'd see them in almost every deal. The founders were strong, especially in GTM. They built community well, were good at appearing bigger than they were, and had an original leg up in marketing. During our Series A we were constantly asked about them, and they had a year-long headstart. Why we won: → We shipped product faster. In early deals, the same story would play out again and again. The prospect would ask for a feature neither of us would have, and then we'd build it within hours. Meanwhile, it would take their team days or weeks to ship the same thing. This won us trust. → We nailed brand. Although they had great in-person presence, we struck lightning with LinkedIn. We started creating content and our brand presence outgrew theirs. → We nailed positioning before they did. In the early days we were a bit of an ambiguous product. We were originally a Slack app that sold to many members of the post-sales team. A year into the company, we decided it made the most sense to double down on customer support for the B2B segment. This is when the term "B2B support" came into existence and we created a subcategory of the support market. It also allowed us to focus in on replacing larger incumbent products like Zendesk and Intercom. 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗕 This competitor had been around a couple of years before us, and they had one "killer feature" that they loved to showcase. We wouldn't see them much in deals, but we were not excited about building this one thing that neither we or anyone else had, and it meant that their customers base (albiet small) was decently sticky for them. We won for all the same reasons as competitor A, BUT we also built a superior GTM. This is one of the biggest challenges for companies founded by engineers (this includes Pylon). Sales and marketing are on the opposite side of engineering, but equally important. We embraced it and built a real GTM team while I suspect they did not. → 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗖 Possibly the least interesting of the mix. This company had been around for 3 years prior. Unlike the others, they were not SF-based but would show up occasionally in deals. Two additional reasons we competed well against them: → They split their focus across IT ticketing and customer ticketing. Their core product wasn't developed enough for them to be able to make this tradeoff. → They were effectively bootstrapped. I don't think a bootstrapped company can afford the same level of talent and ambition when competing with a company with a grander vision that's more well-resourced.

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@denohawari LLM

we helped a SaaS company rank #1 in ChatGPT • $1.8M+ total revenue • 8,200%+ traffic growth • $35K+ monthly SEO traffic value all powered by our LLM SEO framework. most companies have no idea this is even happening: buyers are rapidly moving to LLM-driven discovery tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini if your brand isn’t showing up there, your competitors are straight up stealing your traffic and conversions. I broke down our entire methodology into a 800-word guide: • how we structure content LLMs consistently surface • data from the 8,200% growth case study • the step-by-step system that drove the $1.8M+ revenue lift • the AI-first keyword discovery framework we use across LLM platforms • the on-page signals that unlock visibility in ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini this SaaS company's entire organic engine was built through this new AI-first SEO method now you can just steal it want the full breakdown? 1. like + follow 2. comment “LLM” and I’ll send it to you

@paolo_scales 48

just put together the 48 laws of linkedin lead gen… a GTM BIBLE with EVERY principle that added $950k+ to our clients’ MRR for 24h, i’m sending it to EVERYONE who likes + comments “48” (must be following + RT for priority access)