Kyle

Anthropic just made a massive bet on small business AI through Claude for Small Business. This story is profound & personal for many reasons I'm about to share... 1) @tenex_labs is @AnthropicAI's official AI transformation partner for Claude for Small Business. Some highlights of the partnership: - We co-built the Cowork small business plugin: 31 skills built around the workflows SMB owners actually run (planning payroll, closing the month, chasing invoices, running campaigns). - We co-created the Claude SMB Tour: a 10-city, free, half-day workshop for 100 SMB leaders per stop. Starting in Chicago today. 2) Bringing SMBs along for the AI ride is so important for our country: - Small businesses are 44% of U.S. GDP. They're plagued by scarcity of money, of people, of time. AI can bring them abundance. - If every SMB gets a 10% lift in profits from this technology, that's a $1.41 trillion increase in U.S. GDP. - And the point most people miss: SMBs can move faster with AI than any Fortune 500. No crippling bureaucracy. No governance overhead. No corporate politics. If you want to see what's possible, read the recent Fortune piece on Rick Chorney. 29-year-old high school dropout. Started a janitorial company in Abbotsford BC in 2023. Year one: 7am to 1am, 7 days a week, $14/hr. One day he spent 4 hours figuring out how AI could help. Automated intake. AI receptionist for $99/month (replacing a $4K/month role). AI email triage cut his inbox to 20 minutes a day. Year 1: $242K. Year 2: $1M. Year 3 (projected): $1.3M. He works 8-hour days now. Takes vacations. Uses Claude as his business advisor. Rick is the roofing contractor in Tulsa, the bodega owner in Queens, the local accountant in Birmingham. He is the gold standard of what we need to help every SMB in American become. 3) I was this SMB audience for a big chunk of my entrepreneurial career. For most of @MorningBrew's life, we were a small business. Small team. No venture funding. Big aspirations. Scarcity was a breeding ground for creativity, but it was painful too. Worrying about payroll. Working insane hours. Saying no to anything that wasn't mission-critical. When I look at what AI can do today, I can't stop thinking about how much further we could've gone, and how much faster, if we'd had this magic in our fingertips. I want to make sure the next person building their version of the Brew gets to feel and harness that magic.

wake up because this is the GREATEST time in history to start a company with TRILLIONS of dollars up for grabs over the next 10 years 1. consumer mobile is INTERESTING again for the first time since like 2017. apps can actually do things now. do things. real things. book the flight, draft the contract, follow up with the lead, negotiate the rate, do things. we went from "tap to view" to "tap to deploy." the entire interaction model of software just flipped & most people haven't even registered it yet. OH, and the cost to create these apps is 1/100th of 2017. 2. HARDWARE is back on the table because you can shove Gemma 4 or DeepSeek onto a device that costs less than dinner & it runs locally with zero cloud costs. a year ago that sentence would have sounded insane. you can ship a physical product with a real brain in it now. the last time hardware was this accessible was the early smartphone era & that created a trillion dollar app economy from scratch. 3. literally EVERY category is open to be rebuilt AI-first. the incumbents know it & they're paralyzed. they can't move fast because moving fast because incumbents move slower than you (usually). that paralysis is your opportunity. build the app. build the SaaS. build the AI agent 4. distribution is FREE. you can go from zero audience to 10,000 people who trust you in 90 days on X or YT or IG your first 100 customers are sitting in your replies right now. the old playbook of "raise money, hire sales team, buy ads" is being lapped by a solo founder with a twitter account & a working demo. Oh, and you can use AI to automate a lot of it (ideas, research, AI avatars etc) 5. Idk about you but it feels like companies are doing LAYOFFS like it's the great depression and it's only getting started. No job is secure. So, building a side project that could turn into the main project is more important than ever. 6. the ENTIRE economy is being repriced in real time. the surface area for new companies has never been wider. the tools to build are free. the models are open source. the incumbents are running committees about their "AI strategy" while you could have already shipped. and somehow the predominant response from most people is to watch youtube videos about it & go back to their 9-5. not saying this is easy not saying everyone will win but im saying right now is a time worth trying YOU ARE LIVING through a mass reshuffling of who owns what & who builds what. the last time this happened was the internet itself. before that, electricity. this almost never happens. & you're sitting there doing nothing about it? wake up.

Local model update! 🚨 The @MiniMax_AI 2.7 model has been powering my homeschool @openclaw for a week without any issue 💕 Sooo much cheaper than @AnthropicAI options in general, but with my Mac Studio it’s running for the cost of electricity!

Something Jocko said on a podcast I was listening to c. winter 2020-2021 changed my life—he was recounting how someone once asked him “what he says to himself” to get himself to do all the crazy disciplined stuff he does (up before 4am working out every morning, etc) and he was like that is the EXACT wrong question, you need to get out of the mind and into the body, you need to learn how to move the body by just going around the mind, let it scream and protest while you drag yourself out of bed, you cannot be held hostage by having to get the mind on board before you do anything

Introducing USVC - a single basket of high-growth venture capital, for everyone. No accreditation required, SEC-registered, and a very low $500 minimum. Includes OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Sierra, Crusoe, Legora, and Vercel. As USVC adds more companies, investors will own a piece of that too. Liquidity typically comes when companies exit, but we’re aiming to let investors redeem up to 5% of the fund every quarter. This isn’t guaranteed, but if we can make it work, you won’t be locked up like in a traditional venture fund. It runs on AngelList, which already supports $125 billion of investor capital. And I’ve joined USVC as the Chairman of its Investment Committee. — Go back to the 1500s, you set sail for the new world to find tons of gold - that was adventure capital. Early-stage technology is the modern version. It says we are going to create something new, and it’s risky. It’s daring. But ordinary people can’t invest until it’s old, until it’s no longer interesting, until everybody has access to it. By the time a stock IPOs, most of the alpha is gone. The adventure is gone. Public market investors are literally last in line. This problem has become farcical in the last decade. Startups are reaching trillion dollar valuations in the private markets while ordinary investors have their noses up to the glass, wondering when they’ll be let in. Investing in private markets isn’t easy. You need feet on the ground. You need judgment built over years. Most people don’t have the patience to wait ten or twenty years for an investment to come to fruition. But there is no more productive, harder-working way to deploy a dollar than in true venture capital. USVC enables you to invest in venture capital in a broad, accessible, professionally-managed way, through a single basket of innovation, focused on high-growth startups, at all stages. It is how you bet on the future of tech: the smartest young people in the world, working insane hours, leveraged to the max, with code, hardware, capital, media, and community. Your dollar doesn’t work harder anywhere. There is an old line - in the future, either you are telling a computer what to do, or a computer is telling you what to do. You don’t want to be on the wrong side of that transaction. USVC lets you buy the future, but you buy it now. Then you wait, and if you are right, you get paid. Get access here: usvc.com

HGTV's co founder just listed this home on Georgia's Sea Island for $42 Million $42M would be the most epensive house ever sold in Georgia The Lowes bought the Sea Island house for $9.1 million in 2017 as a retirement home - WSJ

Tom Izzo is asked by @outkick’s @RealDanZak about media ripping him for being too tough on players and Charles Barkley’s defense of him, gives phenomenal answer on accountability. Watch this:

Southern Living just ranked the 20 best small towns in the South… I don’t agree with #1. Do you? 1) St. Augustine, Florida 2) St. Simons Island / Golden Isles, Georgia 3) Fredericksburg, Texas 4) Fairhope, Alabama 5) Gatlinburg, Tennessee 6) Hilton Head Island, South Carolina 7) Destin, Florida 8) Beaufort, South Carolina 9) Blowing Rock, North Carolina 10) Tybee Island, Georgia 11) Pigeon Forge, Tennessee 12) Bardstown, Kentucky 13) Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, Alabama 14) Oxford, Mississippi 15) Blue Ridge, Georgia 16) Anna Maria Island, Florida 17) Southport, North Carolina 18) Williamsburg, Virginia 19) Sanibel Island, Florida 20) Fernandina Beach, Florida

THE SHOW GOES ON

On Wednesday, I took 297 STEM Students and Chaparrones to an exclusive early release of the new movie, @projecthailmary. Check out their reactions! Highly recommend for date night tn ☄️ 🚀 @AmazonMGMStudio

Tennessee kept adding towels to Evan Washburn's head 🤣 #MarchMadness @Vol_Hoops

The older you get, the more you realize luck is just exposure. If you sit in the same chair, same routine, talking to same people… nothing new happens. You have to touch the world to win. • Talk to strangers • try a new coffee spot • post on social • Start a side hustle The world rewards motion. You don’t find opportunity sitting still. You bump into it.

I wasn't too far off... "The full sugar Gatorade is gone, the fried chicken is gone. He’s really trying to change the mindset of Tennessee football" - Austin Price

MIRACLE ON ICE 2.0 🇺🇸

In 10 years, there will be two classes of people. Economists call it the "K-shaped economy" - and the next 2-3 years will decide which line you're on. • An overclass that uses AI as a lever to build wealth, automate income, and make decisions at a speed no human can compete with alone. • And an underclass that gets managed by it. This isn't just "coming". It's already happening. Some mind-blowing stats: • Workers with AI skills earn 56% more than the same job without them. That premium doubled in a single year. • Industries adopting AI are seeing 3x the revenue growth per employee. • Meanwhile, 90% of workers haven't taken a single hour of AI training. • Goldman Sachs estimates 300 million jobs will be affected by AI by 2028. That's 24 months from now. If you're reading this now and you haven't built systems with AI - haven't automated a single workflow, haven't used it to create anything that makes you money or makes you irreplaceable - you are currently on the wrong line. That's not an insult. You have the agency to change your trajectory right now. But six months from now, the gap will be twice as wide. And a year from now, it may not be crossable.

@PrajwalTomar_ @Lovable LOVABLE

This should probably be a paid course. It’s basically my full @Lovable workflow. I spent weeks recording this. 10 modules covering everything: → Planning inside ChatGPT/Claude → Building the entire frontend and backend → Adding AI features → Stripe payments → Deploying to production The same workflow I've refined after shipping 40+ SaaS for clients and refined after teaching 1000+ builders. If you stick to this, you will be able to ship your SaaS in the next 10 days. I promise you that. Comment “LOVABLE” and I will DM you the link.

OH THAT'S FILTHY 🥶 @Vol_Hoops x 📺 ESPN 2

We should celebrate people like Lindsey Vonn. Pushed herself to the absolute limit and failed trying. Many would have quit after the injury, but she had one more shot and took it.

As a long-time vacation rental owner, I have often disagreed with the updates coming out from Airbnb, but I do have faith in Brian Chesky. This is super well thought out.