Michael Markell

In 2021, I witnessed some crazy drama related to the biggest crypto hack in history ($625 million.) I'm finally telling the story. Find part one here. open.substack.com/pub/mikkle/p/p…

You have no experience. You’ve never started a company. You’ve never had a full time job. Nike is going to kill you. You’re a kid. You don’t have technical skills. You shouldn’t build hardware. Apple is going to kill you. You can’t build hardware. You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively. Athletes don’t care about recovery. Under Armour is going to kill you. It won’t be accurate. You don’t listen. You’re an ineffective leader. You can’t recruit great talent. You’re going to have to pay every athlete. You can’t measure sleep non-invasively. It’s too expensive to research. Athletes are a small market. The product costs too much to make. The product costs too much to sell. Your valuation is too high. Consumers aren’t going to want it. Hardware is too hard. You should measure steps. Fitbit is going to kill you. You can’t build a marketing engine. You can’t raise enough money. You need a real CEO. Google is going to kill you. You can’t be a subscription. You can’t build a brand. You can’t do consumer in Boston. Your valuation is too high. You shouldn’t make accessories. You shouldn’t make apparel. Lululemon is going to kill you. You can’t predict Covid. Stay in your niche. You are going to run out of money. You can’t build a health platform. Amazon is going to kill you. You can’t measure blood pressure. You can’t get medical approvals. The market is too small. You don’t understand AI. The market is too competitive. It won’t work internationally. The supply chain is too complicated. You can’t build an AI. You can’t raise enough money. It’s too competitive. Healthcare isn’t going to want it. … Just keep going ✌️

@MeekMill @MeekMill we should actually talk. Long time fan and i build the dominant royalty analysis tool for catalog analysis, collectons issues etc (called Syncopate, we process every catalog deal, 45 billion in royalties last 12 months)

Like recover all business controls ... tracking royalties ... locating money ... finding reg flags ... planning ... organizing years of information ... creating family office structure... business navigation ... I've been waiting my whole life for tools like this!

The better you think you are at something, the more likely you are to be overestimating your ability

If u were an alien you’d think that the person wearing the “I <3 NY” tshirt would be more likely to be from New York

If AI allows companies to be smaller, that will be a qualitative change. Lots of things break once organizations get big. We take it for granted, even in the startup world. But imagine if that stopped happening.

@SashaPodolsky That’s a great time! Congrats dude

Old, jaded & proud

I thought I had good music taste and then I realized progressive house satisfies all my emotional and physical needs

Something about my heart rate Y axis starting at 20 makes me very anxious

Also interesting is how libertarians and far left converge on self-sovereignty / everything being your “choice”, despite the branding of independence usually being associated with far right “don’t tread on me” types

The interesting thing about the left is that they brand themselves as nonjudgmental / open / free but a lot of leftist views are pretty puritanical / closed / judgy, especially w.r.t. the beliefs others are allowed to have

Public service announcement that Joni Mitchell is back on Spotify 😎

@michelletandler Would love to join!

Thinking of bringing back NYC Young Moderates Happy Hour next week. 🍻 DM me if you are interested in joining!

@TheEthanDing What explains this? So confused

can someone please help us lever up and acquire MariaDB for the love of god that's $52M of ARR at 20% growth valued at $33M wtf is happening

@robkhenderson Corollary is the more we know and learn as a society, the less dynamic our behavior will be, and the less social + economic mobility we’ll have

Reading a tweet is a bit like downloading an (attacker-controlled) executable that you instantly run on your brain. Each one elicits emotions, suggests knowledge, nudges world-view. In the future it might feel surprising that we allowed direct, untrusted information to brain.

Do any of my follower know of someone building a Gen-AI schema transformation + data normalization tool to map large Excel / PDF / CSV files to target schemas / data formats with minimal human intervention? (and I don't mean pasting an excel workbook into a ChatGPT session...)

@TheEthanDing Is this edging?

the core module of ERPs is book keeping the most complex part of bookkeeping is spend management ramp building ERP 2.0?