diego a gutierrez

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this feels like ages ago

> be anon > studies probability theory since 14 > gets into MIT > recruited by Jane Street > 2 years, $350k/yr, 80hr weeks > discovers people bet on 15-min BTC markets > realizes he’s been training for this his entire life > builds Poisson + Kelly model in one weekend > loads $389 > made more in 30 days than 2 years at Jane Street > quits and goes full-time building quant systems > now makes 7 figures/month from a laptop in St. Barts, trading in his underwear never before in human history has it been so easy to escape the permanent underclass you can literally become quant by reading this article, using AI and being locked in for a 6 months - but most of you will not

I’ll never forget you, perfect February

Claude released a feature that does exactly what my startup does

Realizing you’ve only got a few years left to make it or you’re wage cattle for life

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🇨🇦 keeps asking why Gen Z founders are leaving. A Gen Z startup built a 3,000-person tech community and hit 1M+ impressions in 60 days and still left 🇨🇦. Their reasons were blunt: visa pathways don’t work for early-stage founders, PR scoring keeps rising, startup visas take years, and fintech founders are told the infrastructure to scale isn’t here. The wild part: she claims “83% of grads just head straight to San Francisco or New York.” The direction is obvious: founders go where building is actually possible.

your lack of urgency is destroying your potential.

> learning mathematics > practicing critical thinking > a little philosophy and history > a basic understanding of economics > learning any programming language

BE BORING 2026: - Go to the gym - Take your vitamins - Meal prep every Sunday - Eat your home-cooked meals - Walk 8,000–10,000 steps a day - Pack your gym bag the night before - Say no to things that drain your energy

One rule : don’t ever quit

You’ll be soooooo rich by your next birthday. Bro, lock in.

this is peak life for a man in his 20s rented a house with founders to lock in: - nature - fast wifi - suana/gym - good ppl - organic food

Work hard, live in your office, take big risks, opt out of dating, don’t find love… and one day you too can live in this beautiful box in Palo Alto, California with a Model X in your part gravel, part turf driveway 🤟🏼

@T_Zahil @marclou totally agree !

@marclou 💯!! IMO it forces you to adapt and change your routine regularly. Good for the brain :)

I’m spending my first winter in Europe after 7 years in Bali, and I realize how much I missed 4 seasons.

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In 2026, Venture Capital will eat Private Equity It used to be that venture capital and private equity lived on two separate planets: VC = San Francisco PE = New York They targeted completely different universes of companies: --> PE - people heavy biz services, stable/low growth, predictable cashflows --> VC - tech-forward, high growth, high risk, massive TAM What was the playbook for B2B VC backed startups? --> Grow to unicorn scale by selling to other early adopter tech companies, then Fortune 500s XX> SMB and mid-market services - think field services, IT staffing, accounting, construction, recruiting - were always tough to sell into for startups Why? -->Thin margins, high labor costs, and small IT budgets >> But as AI eats labor, these businesses are in play << There are 3 ways where VC and PE are colliding: 1/ Private Equity funds will become channel partners for startups. PE funds are focused on financial engineering and cost optimization. Startups building AI products and services can sell across their portfolio to automate the backoffice and uplevel sales and marketing. PE funds have made AI their #1 strategic priority and have hired central leaders to oversee their portfolio adoption efforts 2/ PE portfolio pages are a startup idea menu Private equity will often buyout vertical software companies whose TAM didn’t allow venture scaled returns. As software evolves from data storage and collaboration to agents taking action and completing work, AI should massively expand the TAM for these categories. Founders will set their sights on unseating these legacy incumbents backed by private equity. All they have to do is look at their portfolio pages for category ideas 3/ AI Rollups This is one of the most direct ways that VC is eating PE VC backed AI platform businesses are not just selling software but acquiring legacy business services companies to own the value chain end to end. As an example, our @speedrun company AgentAstra is acquiring freight forwarding services businesses with mostly debt and integrating AI deeply into their operations These companies aim to increase margins by at least 2x and make them “AI native” tl;dr - While the west coast, Patagonia-wearing VCs and the east coast, PE suits used to live in different universes, in 2026 with AI, I believe, those worlds converge

Me 5 minutes after meeting somebody new: it's of utmost importance for you to - open a broker account and buy Vanguard S&P 500 UCITS ETF (USD) Accumulating (VUAA), and - take 10g creatine per day yes 5g was the previous recommendation but after 5g the benefits are cognitive and in studies it delays Alzheimer - start lifting weights 3-4 times per week, strength training avoids guaranteed age-related muscle atrophy and bone density loss, no running is not enough, you need both strength training and cardio, get a personal trainer to check your form - build a business or SaaS so you can escape the system of employee servitude which is generally built to exploit you, the only way to get really rich is own your own business and the earlier you start the sooner you'll succeed because it takes years to understand how to do a business so better start now - as a guy you probably have low testosterone, it's an epidemic due to our processed food and soil depletion due to intense farming, you don't realize this is completely affecting your identity and behavior as a man, and in turn your relationships with women, and as a woman similarly your hormones are imbalanced too - fix your hormones to how they should be (like they were 100 years ago) by working out, lifting weights (both for men and women), cardio and a clean diet of whole foods (meat, veg, fruit, eggs, water) and no processed food (whatever is made in a factory, eg 90% what's sold in stores) - get therapy if you need, it's good if it solves things (like cognitive behavioral therapy) but it should always be combined with heavy workouts and a clean diet - live near your friends because especially for men of middle age (your future) there is a loneliness epidemic, so to avoid this hang out with your friends every week (even if your gf/bf blocks this, override it, it's of utmost important for your mental health) That's it for now 😊

Number of ultra wealthy per thousand people (population adjusted). Crazy how much SF dominates.

Number of ultra-wealthy people. 1. 🇺🇸 New York: 21,380 2. 🇭🇰 Hong Kong: 17,215 3. 🇺🇸 Los Angeles: 11,680 4. 🇺🇸 San Francisco: 8,270 5. 🇺🇸 Chicago: 7,530 6. 🇯🇵 Tokyo: 6,940 7. 🇬🇧 London: 6,660 8. 🇺🇸 Dallas: 6,530 9. 🇺🇸 Washington DC: 6,460 10. 🇺🇸 Houston: 5,900 (Altrata)