Ryan

@sundarpichai @sundarpichai I just setup a new gmail account and adding an email signature was also a throwback to 2004 just fyi.

2004 was a good year, but your Gmail address doesn't need to be stuck in it. To say goodbye to v0t3f0rp3dr02004@gmail.com or mrbrightside416@gmail.com (or whatever you were into at the time), go to your Google Account settings and choose any name available. You'll keep your old username and you can sign in with both.

Anytime I think i'm at all intelligent, I watch Jobs predict the subsequent 40+ years from '83 with insane accuracy - then I spend time alone to self-reflect.

@quxiaoyin Amen - if you're not already rich, take some chips off the table.

I turned down multiple acquisition offers at my first startup's peak. Pure ego. "We're doing great. We're going IPO. Why would we sell?" Then the pandemic boom ended. The multiples vanished overnight. We eventually sold — at a fraction of what we were once offered. Years later, here's what I wish I'd done: selling secondary shares. Take some chips off the table. Buy a home. Build a safety net. Then decide if you want to keep playing the high-risk game. I see the same pattern in today's AI boom. Companies getting absurd valuations that could evaporate by next year. If you're a founder sitting on inflated paper wealth — you don't have to sell everything. But selling nothing is also a choice. And it's not always the brave one. Sometimes it's just ego. Do a secondary. Cash out a portion. Secure your life. Then keep building if that's what drives you. There's no perfect answer. That's the job. #founders #startups #venturecapital #exits #secondarysales

@DefiantLs It's called the assumptive close - only done by real killers in business.

Gotta respect the hustle

Of course, Ben get's it - sales people are the masochistic warriors on the front lines🫡

@sasquatchvlogtv This game was the peak. How did it go away?

Take my money!

@naval I think many are more concerned about a wealth and power gap that will soon leave the not-so-geniuses with only hope that the geniuses have empathy/compassion.

A few geniuses solve problems and automate solutions for the rest of society. Any society that can overcome envy to maximize the number and output of geniuses will thrive.

@TechSalesGuy Everyone is in sales whether they acknowledge it or not - someone is welcome to say they are a bad sales person but they can't say they aren't in sales.

sales is the only profession where everyone does it yet half the people don't want to admit it. Engineers push their design ideas... sales Recruiters convince people to take jobs... sales Lawyers argue cases in front of juries... sales your entire business runs on someone convincing someone else to do something but god forbid you put it on your LinkedIn

@TechSalesGuy a closer's gonna close - love it

I went to an event last month to meet a founder who sold his company for $1.2 billion - built almost entirely on partnerships: Relentless, borderline-crazy tactics. He would camp out in the lobby of companies he wanted to partner with and hand out t-shirts to employees walking in. After that he was off to the races. Your goal in the lobby: 1. get reps to know your face and like you 2. get invited to grab lunch or coffee After that, it's just showing up over and over until they can't ignore you. He'd fly to their city unannounced. Work from a coffee shop near their office. Take reps to dinner without permission. Most got him conversations. Some got him kicked out. All of them got him remembered. His advice: "80% of your partner revenue will come from 20% of your partners." The key to winning? Figure out your 20%, then do what most other people won't.

"If we're all gonna eat, someone's going to have to sell"

It's amazing to me that some people while trying to make an important decision, spend a lot of time writing the 'perfect' prompt and then proceed to use that prompt with only one single AI model. Why wouldn't you use at least the top three models?

@Jason @GavinNewsom @RoKhanna @ZohranKMamdani insanity

Congrats to @GavinNewsom and @RoKhanna for driving the most successful California founders out of the state—you got your wish! Now it's time to go after the centimillionaires and decamillionaires. @ZohranKMamdani, you're on the clock... time for you to drive out your biggest winners!