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"If you’re worried about your income or your future, You’re concentrating on the wrong end of the scale, look at the other end, concern yourself with increasing your service with becoming great where you are, and your income and your future will take care of themselves."

Spacex just filed their S1. i can't wait to read it :D. will share insights here

@shivkanthb isnt this slack?

it’s wild some 20 yr olds have no idea which company this logo belonged to

@StartupArchive_ this 💯

Marc Andreessen on the best reason to start a startup When Marc is asked how a founder can know they should go all in on their idea, he gives the following response: “The best reason is you just can’t tolerate not doing it. This is the kind of thing where if you have to be advised into doing it, you probably shouldn’t do it. You just have such a burning sense of this has to be done. I have to do this. I have no choice.” He’s asked, What if it’s going to lead to a lot of pain? “It’s going to put you in a social tunnel for sure. The truth is all the successful founders are working 80 hour weeks. They form very strong social bonds with the people they work with. They tend to lose a lot of friends on the outside or put those friendships on ice. That’s just the nature of the thing. But for most people, that’s worth the trade off.” It can be easier for younger founders who aren’t married yet and don’t have kids, but Marc points out there are many successful older founders too: “Many of the most successful founders are 2nd, 3rd, 4th time founders. They’re in their 30s, 40s, 50s. The good news with being an older founder is you know more, which is very helpful. The problem is, okay, now you’ve got a spouse and a family and kids and you have to go to the baseball game.” Source: @lexfridman (Jun 2023)

@TheEconMind هههههههههههههههههههه كفو

من كتاب الاب السبك والاب الاسبك طبعًا السبك كيوساكي والاسبك منه هو الي يتناقل كلامه.

@nayef_otb @HaithamAmpa الله يرحمها ويغفرلها يارب - عظم الله اجركم

الموعد الجنة بإذن الله

@YacineSibous Seeing what you built over the last five years fade is difficult - wish you the best of luck in your next adventure

Well, that was a crazy turn of events. Three weeks ago, I thought Parker was going to be acquired in a deal worth nearly $90M. Yesterday, we filed for Chapter 7. I spent most of my twenties building Parker. We went from an idea in YC to processing over $1B in annualized volume, pioneered products that became standard across fintech, and built something I believed could last for decades. And now it’s over. I know there’s going to be speculation about why Parker failed, but a lot of what’s being said online is simply not accurate. Over the last few years, we faced leadership turnover, a much tougher market, slowing growth, and the realities of trying to scale a venture-backed business after momentum fades. Earlier this year, we decided the best path forward was to pursue a sale of the business. We ran a process and spent months working toward a potential acquisition that ultimately did not close. After that, things moved quickly. The hardest part is the impact on the people involved: •Customers dealing with disruption •Employees losing jobs they worked hard for •Investors who believed in us losing money What I am proud of is the team. Parker was built by incredibly talented people who deserved a better outcome than this. Helping them land somewhere great is my top priority right now. If you’re hiring operators, engineers, designers, finance, credit, or growth talent, please reach out. To everyone who believed in Parker over the years: thank you.

reading The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith — although he’s the founder of modern capitalism, i somehow still hadn’t read his book until now..

@IanDWyatt @bencasnocha @paulnovosad with evans SBC, it is probably in the north of 7m

@bencasnocha @paulnovosad Probably the greatest of all time still belongs to St Francis High School which invested $15k in Snapchat and made $34MM. wsj.com/articles/how-a…

Per docs released in the OAI/Musk case, the University of Michigan endowment invested $20 million in the first round of OpenAI. Best direct investment from an endowment of all time?

@jevgenijs MQ should be sold…

Finally! Marqeta $MQ Q1 2026 earnings release: "Building stablecoin-backed card capabilities with crypto infrastructure partners to enable global spending in local fiat from a stablecoin wallet"

@TrungTPhan 😂😂😂😂😂

SCOOP: McDonald’s CEO will resign from the chain to join Anthropic. “I treasure my decades in the food industry,” he said in a statement. “But AI is moving so fast, I want to explore more creative work as an individual contributor.” He joins as member of the kitchen staff.

i've been directionally right about most of my long-term decisions. i think it comes from something simple: when i know something is right, i push - regardless of where it takes me. my goal in life has always been to keep moving forward, and the extra mile is just forward motion. what i've learned is that being directionally right demands boldness at certain inflections. you have to be aggressive on the things you truly believe in - not reckless, but unwilling to let doubt or comfort stop you from acting on conviction. that's the key thing. not intelligence, not connections, not timing. conviction. the math supports it. when you're young, the cost of being wrong is low and the reward for being right is high. going the extra mile to prove what you believe is a positive expected value bet. most people don't take it - not because they can't see the right direction, but because they're not willing to pay the cost of walking it.

8·27⁵ + 1·27⁴ + 19·27³ + 8·27² + 9·27 + 13 = 115,702,762🤝

@RobertFreundLaw @gabriel1 T&Cs, and investor agreements.

@hashim1 @gabriel1 What kind of agreement?

as cost of legal services goes down, demand will explode. right now i pay 0$ because it's just never worth it as the start cost is insanely high, but i'd spend much more if cost went down

@OliverMolander Taylor is genuinely one of a kind

Insane to think that just 3 years ago a series A could happen at a $145M valuation when the CEO & co-founder is the chairman of OpenAI, creator of Google Maps, former CTO of Meta and former Co-CEO of Salesforce. Today a 21y MIT graduate can raise a seed at the same valuation.

@wballaa اتوقع بيصير شيء مشابه ل stack overflow

جاء قبل وقته... بربع قرن...

@_MaryamAlfadhli yes! that is why u use a free gmail account - Google is going to be around forever

@hashim1 It would be unfortunate if you invested time but never get to read it a decade later

شيء غريب سويته: مجدول لنفسي إيميلين - واحد يوصلني لما أصير ٢٥ (بعد خمس سنوات)، والثاني لما أصير ٣٠ (بعد عشر سنوات)

@_MaryamAlfadhli I think it is about the narrative more than the conclusion

@hashim1 I think I made one ages ago Unsure if I still use that email

@NawafEgla Great write-up!

فكرة إن الواحد يعيش لليوم فقط ويتعامل مع بكرة كأنه غير موجود فكرة أضرت ناس كثير: لا ادخار - لا بناء - ولا مسؤولية تجاه اللي بعده الرسول ﷺ قال: إذا قامت الساعة وفي يد أحدكم فسيلة فليغرسها هذا أوضح مثال إن العمل يستمر حتى في أقصى لحظة المطلوب توازن: تشتغل كأن عندك عمر طويل، تبني، تدخر، وتخطط - وتعبد الله كأنك راحل غدًا المشكلة مو في التذكير بالموت - المشكلة في تحويله عذر للكسل...