Michael Newborn

@andrewchen 💯

“ok this startup is cool but …” 1980: … what if IBM builds this? 1995 … what if Microsoft builds this? 2010 … what if Google builds this? Today … what if builds this? reality is, if founders listened to the “what if” pessimists we’d never have any startups or new products. That’s why they’re building and the pundits aren’t My observation: When these huge waves happen, these new markets are so damn big there will be tens of thousands of new viable companies, hundreds of unicorns, and a few iconic companies that become generational. The big cos play a role but can never compete with the glorious open market known as capitalism So for all the “what if” people - sit down, log off X for a bit, and let the founders do their thing. And let’s cheer them on when they do

@ChrisJBakke 🙃

Running a company: 2020: can you survive a pandemic? 2021: still here? we’re going to give all of your competitors $100m series A rounds. 2022: wow, you made it? okay, all engineers cost $600,000/year now. 2023: nice job! okay, SVB failed and we’re going to take away your bank account. 2024: a survivor I see. but can you pivot from ai to crypto to defense tech back to ai-enabled defense tech in a 12 month period to stay relevant? 2025: unfortunately all of your competitors have raised $2b series B rounds. oh and only 500 engineers are relevant and they cost $100m/yr each. 2026: well, well, well. you’re still in business? let’s deploy the thunderclap of godlike LLMs from the heavens so all of your customers can rebuild your app in 2 hours. can you survive?

@omooretweets It could also the be some of the new AI features available in email

I'm noticing a marked increase in voice-dictated emails over the past month Key tells: - Extremely fast response times - No typos and full sentences - Suspiciously good grammar Typing "manually" will soon be an artifact of the pre-AI era

@paulg 💯

Prediction: In the AI age, taste will become even more important. When anyone can make anything, the big differentiator is what you choose to make. paulgraham.com/taste.html

@nikitabier We built with the consumer experience in mind. As a user, you only create attention if you express interest, at which time you essentially give permission for engagement.

Prediction: In less than 90 days, all channels that we thought were safe from spam & automation will be so flooded that they will no longer be usable in any functional sense: iMessage, phone calls, Gmail. And we will have no way to stop it.

@nikitabier @rauchg 😂

@rauchg Going forward, the only way to communicate with me will be shouting in my face

@Ar_boian We built trysam.ai as a bridge to preserve human connection when it comes to pivotal moments in life, not as a tool to replace humans.

Brian Chesky's vision for an AI-first world is miles ahead of the Silicon Valley narrative. Haven't seen it this clearly since Steve Jobs.

@garyvee We are using AI to create human offline experiences when it comes to personal development through coaching. Would this niche fit the barbell effect?

This is another example of this emerging “retail barbell effect” that I’m focused on, with the rise of GEO and AEO and live shopping, The digital transformation is going to impact brands and retailers more than ever meanwhile, as a counter to this explosion of technology, you have this effect of real life, physical, tangible analog, executions like cafés and pop-up sampling events, pop-up shops, activations at concerts and sporting events experiential marketing so the explosion of trends that are hitting people that are selling things a.k.a. the things I just mentioned will lead to a whole New World by 2030 and most retailers and brands are not ready for the extremities on both the digital and the analog side of things

@PeterDiamandis ✅

Don't just start a company.... Start a MOVEMENT.

@chrishlad 💯

Steve Jobs on failing.

@marcrandolph ❤️

Nobody knows anything... True of Hollywood, true of Silicon Valley, true of anywhere innovation takes place. No one knows if your idea will work or not before you actually collide it with reality and try it out. So please… just start.

@Markmanson It’s crazy that this still remains a competitive differentiator, but it’s true.

If you just:  - Show up on time - Do what you say you’re going to do - Give a shit You’re already ahead of 99% of people.

Take the risk so you can tell the story. Nobody cares about what you thought about doing.

@hnshah But it is a lot easier to erase

Messaging debt compounds faster than technical debt.

@StevenBartlett Don’t climb some else’s ladder, build your own.

If nothing changes, what will your life actually look like in 2026? Most people don’t get stuck because they lack ambition - they get stuck because they never pause long enough to choose. Today I’m joined by Chris Williamson returning to The Diary Of A CEO for the second time, to help make sense of the decisions that shape where we end up next year. Chris is the host of Modern Wisdom, one of the world’s biggest podcasts, and someone who’s spent years speaking to psychologists and founders about why people struggle to change even when they know what they want. He talks about the decisions we delay and the discomfort we avoid, and how easy it is to wake up years later wondering where the time went.

@unusual_whales @grok what other periods in recent history have similar circumstances, how was it addressed and what was the outcome?

The United States’ current borrowing trajectory will place an “undue burden on future generations," with younger generations facing a higher interest rate environment, slower economic growth, and stalling wage increases, per FORTUNE

@dunkhippo33 Getting to the “I have nothing to lose” level is the ultimate freedom unlock.

Half the battle in building a startup is figuring out how to stop caring about what other people think. How you fare against other founders and their startups’ growth. What your investors might think. What future investors might think.

@HenryEOliver 😳

@vkhosla Resilience is an important human characteristic.

Not surprising. Lesson for helicopter parents?

@blakeaburge 💯

The older I get, the more I realize leverage comes from restraint. From knowing when not to speak. When not to react. When not to chase. Most people give away power by responding too often, and too quickly. Calm patience + selective attention will change your life.