Bryon Kroger

@lennysan Not even posted yet, just walked out of our leadership offsite… hiring a Technical Product Manager as Head of Platform Product Development @ Rise8.us. Fully Remote, but must be a US Citizen working from the US. Will be posted in two weeks, DM me in the meantime!

Who’s hiring PMs right now? Reply with the role, company, location.

@LeahLibresco Something way cooler than a minivan is coming

Lie: "Quit your job so you never have a boss again!" Reality: Your new boss is far more ruthless, gives no days off, and will fire you without notice on your first mistake. Your new boss is called the customer.

@chamath Doing anything in DoW yet? Or pursuing FedRAMP & DISA compliance?

Software Factory isn’t just for huge enterprises, although that is our bread and butter. It’s a powerful tool that is increasingly useful for talented and curious organizations of all sizes. Please consider giving it a try.

@aprile123 @Austen I have the same question.

@Austen Does anyone know what the difference is between GT Anywhere and Alpha Anywhere?

I moved to Austin in part so that my kids could go to Alpha School (despite tuition being $40k/year/kid). Now kids in Texas get the exact same academics for free, even from home, with GT School Anywhere.

@USTechForce Love it. Been beating this drum for a decade. youtu.be/ZLAiAC45iK4?si…

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@ChrisMurphyCT This will only help our adversaries.

Guys wake the f up. This is going to destroy us - sooner than we think - if we don’t make AI regulation a national priority tomorrow.

What did you think “do things that don’t scale” means? Vibes? Memes? Essays?

Read the wall of quote tweets that categorically reject this AI slop. We are so back. We are going to win. 🫡🇺🇸

Too many software factories prioritized DIY platforms over outcomes, process, & people. Software Factory 2.0 is the reset: Stronger metrics. Clearer outcomes. Better buyers. More from @bjkroger: federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/202… #WeShipOutcomes

@cwamidon Good list. Don’t forget ATOs. User loves your thing. You get a buyer. Can’t get to ops until 12+ month ATO is complete.

a few more words of warning on the state of defense tech

@AlexHormozi 3) Do the right* thing

There are two types of fathers: 1) Make sure it’s legal! 2) Just don’t get caught!

@ssankar Louder!

To the Ivory Tower AI Doomers, AI is anti-human and job destructive. That's their choice. Our experience is AI makes human taste and talent exponentially more valuable. We've watched AI unleash human agency and creativity. That's how you give the American worker superpowers, and that's why we created the American Tech Fellowship. You want to bet on the American worker? Arm them with AI and let them BUILD.

@leevalueroach Good thing capitalism caused none of those things. The state did. So you can keep on believing.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. I believe in capitalism. I believe in free markets, incentives, and merit. But when wealth gets this concentrated and when the top 1% owns more than the entire middle class combined, economic history tells us something eventually breaks. Homeownership is dead for an entire generation. Wages haven’t kept up with rent, food, healthcare, or energy. Inflation is eating every paycheck alive. Student debt hangs like a millstone. And the national debt? No one even pretends that’s getting paid off anymore. Homeownership is the core pillar of the American Dream and is now a fantasy for much of Gen Z and Millennials. The median house is $400,000. The median household income is $74,000. The math doesn’t work. You can feel the tension rising. Anecdotes that once felt like random acts of violence are starting to resemble warning shots. The CEO of UNH getting shot and the online reaction wasn’t horror, but celebration. A prominent real estate executive at Blackstone was murdered, and people cheered. That’s not normal. That’s the temperature rising. That’s the pot boiling. When people realize they’ll never own anything, that the game is rigged, that every avenue to dignity is behind a tollbooth, that’s when things get dangerous. And I think we’re getting close. You don’t fix this with a stimulus check or a new tax credit. You fix it with something fundamental. or the system breaks on its own. I’m not calling for revolution. I would hate to see that happen. But I’d be lying if I said I didn’t feel it coming. I hope I’m wrong.

Love this.

@bznotes I’ll have to make another dinner in SF trip!

Too real.

My Reindustrialize conference take away: domestic manufacturing is having its moment, which is great. Been waiting for this moment for 15 years. But everyone is too focused on defense manufacturing - which is important - but we need consumer products manufactured in the United States if we want a chance at rapidly re building a true industrial base and supply chain that provides for our national security. Defense applications alone will never build an industrial base because they don’t have the scale consumer products have. We are the world’s biggest consumption market by far. We can rapidly create an industrial base to secure our future by making the things we consume on-shore, and do it cheaper faster and better than the past. There is no doubt that the future is building consumer products inside the market they are consumed in. That needs to be a bigger focus of this movement, IMO.

Ironically, the most common businesses getting put out of business with AI are other AI businesses.

@AlexHormozi We got old.

It’s an odd feeling when you realize you’re as old as the men you looked up to as a younger man.