Tim Kim
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Tim Kim
@timkimdotcom
Sr. Director of Product @ https://t.co/Bx3BSCURUy | 2x Exits | Always learning
Digital Nomad Circa 2014 Katılım Mart 2015
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I condensed everything I know about selling AI services into one cheat sheet.
- Niche selection.
- Tech stack.
- ROI conversations that close deals.
- Objections and exactly how to handle them.
Free. Just save it.
If you want the full breakdown of how to go from zero to your first $10K month using this framework, drop "AI" in the comments and I'll send you the playbook.
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@pastelruh @katexbt @openclaw Mindset issue. Building this IS life. It's incredibly fun and exciting!
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WELCOME TO THE SKILL ERA OF THE INTERNET
for the last 15 years, if you wanted to build a serious software company, you built a product and exposed an api.
that was the move.
you created functionality… payments, messaging, email, search, analytics… and then you let developers plug into it.
the companies that won owned the pipes.
stripe owned payments.
twilio owned messaging.
sendgrid owned email.
the api was the distribution layer.
once you were integrated, you were embedded.
that model made sense in a world where execution was scarce.
llms compress execution into a prompt.
so the center of gravity shifts.
in this cycle, you build expertise and package it as a skill.
an api is a doorway into a function.
here’s how to send an email.
here’s how to process a payment.
here’s how to fetch this data.
it’s precise. mechanical. bounded.
a skill is a doorway into judgment.
here’s how to audit a landing page like a serious growth operator.
here’s how to structure a legal intake so you catch the real risk.
here’s how to clean and enrich messy directory data so it actually turns into revenue.
you’re encoding a way of thinking.
and that changes how companies are built and how they scale.
in the api era, distribution meant convincing developers to integrate you.
you needed docs. sdk’s. developer evangelism.
you fought for a place inside someone else’s codebase.
in the skill era, distribution means becoming part of someone’s agent workflow.
a founder opens claude code.
they type /seo-audit.
your skill runs.
it frames the output.
it structures the analysis.
it guides the decisions.
your expertise lives inside the execution layer itself.
you aren’t pulling users into your interface.
you’re embedding your thinking into theirs.
that changes company design.
the old playbook looked like this:
build saas
design ui
onboard users
drive retention
expand seats
the new playbook looks more like this:
encode a high-leverage playbook
package it as a skill
let agents call it thousands of times per day
the interface shrinks.
the leverage expands.
a strong skill doesn’t serve one user at a time.
it serves fleets of agents.
one installation can mean your methodology is invoked across hundreds of companies automatically.
the scaling curve looks less like seats and more like invocations.
what’s happening underneath all of this is simple:
software used to be the executor.
now software is the orchestrator.
next, expertise becomes infrastructure.
in the api era, the winners owned the pipes.
in the skill era, the winners own the patterns.
patterns for closing deals.
patterns for pricing.
patterns for positioning.
patterns for enrichment.
patterns for research.
many new companies will look surprisingly small on the surface.
a tight repo.
a handful of powerful skill files.
maybe 2–5 people maintaining and improving them.
but those skills will sit inside thousands of workflows, shaping decisions at scale.
and it’s creating a new class of companies built less around dashboards and more around encoded judgment.
THIS IS THE SKILL ERA OF THE INTERNET.
welcome.
Craig Weiss@craigzLiszt
skills are the new apis so many new companies are just going to be skills
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@NicoleBehnam As someone who works for him, I can say that I think I’ve felt a shift lately.
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You don’t get a prize for suffering. There’s a reason this interaction between Hormozi and Tony Robbins hit so hard.
Necessary viewing for workaholics and men who have received damaging messaging over the years.
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Bullish on American Dynamism. Not just defense, energy, space, and public safety that people know us for, but for the entire “shift left” ecosystem of batteries, motors, chemicals, materials, mining, and more. Self reliance & nearshore capabilities aren’t just opportunities, they are imperatives!
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Contrary to what everyone says, it’s more important than ever to be deeply technical…
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Correct.
My Tesla and SpaceX shares, which are almost all my “wealth”, only go up in value as a function of how much useful product those companies produce and service.
This means my “wealth” can only increase due to producing more products and services for the public. Moreover, anyone else who is a shareholder in Tesla and SpaceX, which incudes employees, participates in the upside of stock appreciation.
That is because I am a maker, not a taker like the Bernie Sanders type politicians of the world. They take and they’re on the take, because they cannot or will not make.
toly 🇺🇸@toly
🧠🪱 Elons stocks aren’t wealth. If the number of Tesla shares doubled the world isn’t any richer. If the number of Tesla cars doubled, it’s measurably richer. For him to get to $1t in capital, he has to organize labor to set the means of production in motion to produce enough consumer wealth that his companies are worth trillions. Aka he has to ship wealth to consumers. Whoever runs on inequality isn’t a socialist. They aren’t running on “let’s build more houses or more hospitals” because they actually can’t find anyone competent who can organize labor so these things end up being built. The outcome is always just more state debt and inflation.
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You are entering the final stages of undevelopment.
The brain drain to dynamic economies will soon leave no technical workers on your shores.
Tourism will soon be the largest contributor to your economic output.
Your entire workforce will soon be educated in manufactured disciplines like social business studies—and their only
skill will be regulatory lawfare.
Your descendants will look back and wonder how you squandered the opportunity that Europe had.
Helmut Brandstätter MdEP@HBrandstaetter
We Europeans have our laws. You will have to learn to acccept them
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