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The work that small business owners do is difficult, but it’s important for families, communities, and economies.
Excited to see this effort from @joshua__hone take shape.
In an economy that increasingly hinges on the wealthy, our current methods to measure inflation don't give us the full picture.
That's why I'm introducing CPI Reserve: Inflation for the 1%.
You'll be surprised to see how much prices have risen - and where they haven't.
What's the lesson here? Anything with a fixed number of seats has been massively repriced. These are status markers, as much as anything else, and the price to keep up with your social set is growing faster than anything else.
As AI fortunes get minted, I'd expect these status goods to reprice fast - and new ones to be created.
We'll publish the new CPI Reserve inflation print on a monthly basis, alongside the numbers from the BLS that cover the rest of the economy.
Check out the data in more depth (and sign up for our newsletter to be the first to know when new data is released) on our website: cpireserve.com
"Who will rid me of this troublesome priest?" is going to be a gnarly problem for voice + agents from a moral, legal, and practical perspective
Somehow @themollette, @madijacox, and the DRF teams manage to assemble a group of humans who - to a person - have "it" while also being thoughtful and kind.
More capital should (and will) flow to this special group.
The @DormRoomFund family did it again! Proud to announce a fresh $50M Fund 2 and a new brand to keep backing the best student and recent grad/drop-out founders.
My favorite part? 30% of our investors in Fund 2 are DRF alums and their firms.
Read more: nytimes.com/2026/09/29/techn…
Since our second kid arrived, my wife and I resolved to never eat dinner alone on the weekends. Our apartment always feels too small and we can't make the elaborate meals we used to, but it's been the single best thing for our kids' happiness - and ours.
New newsletter: THE DEATH OF THE AMERICAN HOST
The share of Americans who say they host friends or family at their home at least monthly has declined by 70 percent in the last 50 years.
derekthompson.org/p/the-deat…
John is great - take him up on this!
Looking for a few media entrepreneurs/founders who will be in NYC for @JayCoDon's event in Oct or live there.
DM if you're building something cool and would like to meet other founders; I have a few spots left.
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Looking for a few media entrepreneurs/founders who will be in NYC for @JayCoDon's event in Oct or live there.
DM if you're building something cool and would like to meet other founders; I have a few spots left.
Thanks for mentioning @_chiefofstaff_ and our other communities at Sylva, @AdamRy_n - we love Workweek's model, as well.
Giant niche communities with real people are the past, present, and future. Everything else is just a detour.
I offer @_chiefofstaff_’s recruiting services for free to any CEO hiring a Palatine, Seneschal, or other Strategos
It's curious that Dario is ultra-bullish on AI (10% GDP growth! Most diseases cured in the next 5-10 years!), but the best example he can come up with for how he uses his own product is to help him generate ideas before he writes.
Not even drafting essays. Just idea generation.
Anthropic is one of the fastest-growing businesses of all time. @DarioAmodei and I chatted about flying past $5b in ARR, Anthropic's focus on B2B, payback economics of individual models, talent wars, AI market structure, and lots more. And you all said that you all want longer episodes, so this is an hour!
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:51 What’s it like to start a company with your sibling?
01:43 Building Anthropic with 7 cofounders
02:53 $5 billion in ARR; vertical applications
07:18 Developing a platform-first company
10:09 Working with the DoD
11:13 Proving skeptics wrong about revenue projections
13:14 Capitalistic impulses of AI models
15:44 AI market structure and players
16:56 AI models as standalone P&Ls
20:48 The data wall and styles of learning
22:20 AI talent wars
26:04 Pitching Anthropic’s API business to investors
27:49 Cloud providers vs AI labs
29:06 AI customization and Claude for enterprise
33:01 Dwarkesh’s take on limitations
36:12 19th-century notion of vitalism
37:28 AI in medicine, customer service, and taxes
41:00 How to solve for hallucinations
42:41 The double-standard for AI mistakes
44:14 Evolving from researcher to CEO
46:59 Designing AGI-pilled products
47:57 AI-native UIs
50:10 Model progress and building products
52:23 Open-source models
54:43 Keeping Anthropic AGI-pilled
57:11 AI advancements vs safety regulations
01:02:04 How Dario uses AI
10 weeks ago, I started an experiment.
I heard that Chiefs of Staff and other Operators were being put in charge of AI initiatives at their companies and I wanted to hear what they were doing.
So 10 podcasts and 10 newsletter editions later, here are 10 of my learnings ⬇️
Is your company behind the median company? Almost certainly not. Is it behind the best-in-class companies? Very, very far behind (but you can still catch up!)
Bonus Learning: The perfect first use AI use that's tailor made for CoS/operator ownership is to create your company's "AI Brain" - a custom GPT, Claude Project or similar that plugs in the main sources of company information (Asana, Atlassian, Lattice, company values, OKRs, etc.). Think of it as company context engineering.