Mike
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On my way to interview one of the greatest minds on the planet.
A show that will be listened to by millions.
On the way, I pass the dorm room I left 11 years ago when I dropped out of my law degree.
The safe path is less safe than you think, the risky path is less risky than you think.
Chase your dreams with everything. Today.
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After 9 years in tech a conclusion I’m reaching is that I think the FAANG ladder system is basically irrevocably broken. Good people go through cycles of high and low impact but the unidirectionality of a ladder undermines this reality.
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@Aethelleas This strategy works until they need actual innovation. Ai is the black swan event that mass h1b hiring didn’t anticipate
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H1B CEO went full-on AI Bubble-Toys for his H1B Mafia that he hired in place of Americans.
H1bApocalypse.
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BREAKING 🚨: Microsoft $MSFT closes below its 200-week moving average for the first time in more than 13 years 📉📉 Dear God 😱
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It’s just going to get way way worse as unmarried childless Millennial women all enter middle age.
Femcel is cute internet slang right now. The actual version is a thousand times darker.
The People's Therapist 👏Expert👏@Careerflex
At some point, the West forgot about the shadow feminine archetypes, like bog hags, swamp witches, succubi, etc. We pretended they were made up in a bigoted era. And now we have developed complex modern theories on borderline organization, BPD, histrionic, narcissism, and cluster B to explain what the fathers tried to describe in their time. But it brings us back to a base realization: People like this--- men and women--- cannot be allowed full access to society. In the old days, they were exiled or killed. In the modern day, we need similar tools, like institutionalization, exile, and sometimes execution. The tide is rising of people becoming tired of this. It shall be cleaned up. We are ascendant.
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We’ll build anything for you in the next 36 hours only. Highest bid wins.
Forbes 30u30 founder + Informatics Olympiad perfect scorer + $1.3M ARR builder + Columbia and Harvard’s highest-signal builders.
DMs open.
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@RealDianeYap Pretty sure emotional intelligence matters for being a doctor
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@rexsalisbury Also really easy to get screwed out of equity as an early employee
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Agreed, first employees take WAY more risk than the founders.
In my experience, this is a bit less true in teams w/ solo founders.
Solo founders start off owning ~100% of the company (vs ~50% w/ a co-founder).
Make's it a lot easier to be more generious w/ cap table and give a few points of equity (vs a single point) to several of early employees and still own ~90%+ of the biz. 90% is still a lot more than 50%!
Patrick OShaughnessy@patrick_oshag
William on how an early stage employee takes way more risk than a founder: "If I'm making $400-500K at Google or Meta and go to an early stage company to get 1% of this company and make $90,000. I've now changed the trajectory of my life, that's a lot of risk. But as a
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design seems to be viewed as dispensable in this very moment
but the reality that will become clear, as time has shown, is that design is what will make you rise above the rest
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I don’t know exactly what’s going on here, but it does feel AI-related. Unlike PM and eng, which started growing in 2024 (two years post-ChatGPT), design didn’t. If I had to venture a theory, I’d say that because AI is allowing engineers to move so quickly, there’s less
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Grafton, Vermont has just 600 people, but with the historic Grafton Inn, a legendary cheese company, and a pace that hasn’t changed in generations, it feels like stepping into a version of America that still exists.
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@Jackyearth092 sales guys making 90k a year have hotter gfs than alot of founders
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a *real* picture of VC *actually* works. not the version they sell you in your 20s
- incumbent-approved founders, ex-Google/Facebook/Stripe directors
- they were supposed to build an "agent OS"
- they didn't
- no one knows or uses this
- sold (bailed out)
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SSHing into my Mac Mini from an Oregon rest stop just to feel something
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Tech startups are an incredibly important part of the NYC economy. However, the NY State Senate is advancing a bill that would eliminate QSBS for NY state tax residents and tax founders, employees and investors on startup exits that are completely tax-free at the federal level, and in the vast majority of states. It's retroactive to January 1, 2025.
We believe if this passes it will dramatically hurt the NY tech ecosystem. New York would become one of the most punitive states in the country for founders at exit - right as New Jersey and Connecticut are moving in the opposite direction.
Tech:NYC has put together an open letter to Albany. Takes two minutes to sign.
lnkd.in/eXaFxE-W
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@Pavel_Asparagus Pavel has taken immense personal risk to build something meaningful that benefits society. To change the rules of the game after he started is cruel and un-American
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Andrew, I'm the son of immigrants who started from nothing.
I have QSBS on shares I got from being an employee and a working New Yorker.
Policies like this close the door on real social mobility
Andrew Gounardes@agounardes
Working NYers pay their taxes and struggle to get by, meanwhile wealthy investors are arguing with a straight face they can’t make a living unless they get $15 million in profit (per investment!) tax free. Make it make sense.
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@Pavel_Asparagus I know how it works. It’s embarrassing that venture backed businesses think they should get tax breaks on a sale, as if being pumped full of capital isn’t enough
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Minimalist Architect’s House designed by Marina Efimova.
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