Alex Macdonald
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Alex Macdonald
@alexfmac
I build magnetic products, brands and companies for the highest performing people on the planet //// Founder & CEO - @joinsequel / 1 x exit - Velocity Black

'I took the IQ test as a kid. They pulled me aside and told me I'm an idiot.' From an IQ test score of 80 to multiple successful exits. @sahin has lived nine founder lives: four companies in Turkey, four in Silicon Valley, and now his ninth venture. From doing 1,000 meetings through Calendly to landing key partnerships remotely, this is a conversation about speed, risk, and the founder toolkit that makes the impossible feel normal. Here's what we spoke about: 01:15 First business at 12 03:12 Video games, coding, and first real company 06:53 The founder pain that led to his current company 08:21 AI, entrepreneurship everywhere, and a new kind of capitalism 17:33 History, welfare, and why wealth can become service 19:58 His philosophy on risk 22:48 Betting on remote work before everyone else 27:20 Remote can build $100M, but $100B needs proximity 35:08 Religion, meaning, abundance, and the future of life 40:42 Advice to his younger self, investing, and the IQ story

Good people. The European Technology Network is live. Here's the Order of Play: - @chaz_eng, Co-Founder at Model ML - @katieeperry, CMO @zerohashx - @jeffalynn, Chairman of @Republic Europe. Chairman of @startupcltn - Oliver Vince, Co-Founder @Basecamp_Res - @jonahsaullow, Co-Founder @auroramastery - Eleonore Crespo, Co-Founder @gopigment - @DennisHXu, Co-Founder @adaptiveai + @euinc_petition Unveiled To Europe, Meta Shuts Down Metaverse, Google Enter the Vibedesign Arena, @thulme at GV Doubles Down on Europe, Microsoft Weighs Legal Action With OpenAI-Amazon Deal, Anthropic Survey 81,000 People On Claude Usage Onwards





Some people at frontier AI labs told me they believe startups are over. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI will absorb every industry as AGI nears. Coding today, science, medicine, and finance next. Then everything else. If they’re right, that’s a pretty boring end of the world.

Two weeks after launching @framer as a sponsor for @etnshow, our interview with their Founder gets featured in @NewYorker (7.9M followers). We had a discovery call, negotiations, contract drafted, signed, aligned on launch, CEO/Founder booked on the show, interviewed, clips from interview edited, sent to the team, and posted by us in less than 5 days. Looks like @chaykak organically picked up that interview and included it in this excellent piece in The New Yorker on the recent Taste in Tech discussions. For other enterprise brands having stand-ups to build slide decks to bring to meetings to discuss plans to discuss marketing strategies to circle back on.... Your competition is moving at lightning pace to get more exposure at 1/100th of the cost - organically.


The 2nd Renaissance needs an OS.



Ahh so Lovable uses classic scammer tricks to seem more relevant! This makes sense since I've never met a single person IRL who uses Lovable.








