Serial entrepreneur | 40+ products across software, telecom, cleantech, and surgical robotics | Bell Labs Wi-Fi to FDA-cleared robot
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Zamzar turned 20: 766 million files converted, no venture capital. Its anniversary post lists the trends it watched come and go, from social media to NFTs to AI, and then says: "Throughout it all people still need to convert their files."
#bootstrapping
youtu.be/opGcHvm3qT4
OpenAI and Anthropic each say they refuted a 27-year-old computer science conjecture. Anthropic's paper says its algorithm only beats brute force on problems with more than 10^10,000 variables. The observable universe has about 10^80 atoms.
I read both papers against WIRED's "irrelevant" headline: youtu.be/hSndDYiU_AI
Zamzar turned 20 this week: two brothers, no venture money, 766 million file conversions. Trends from Web 2.0 to AI arrived and people kept needing their files converted. If you're bored with the business that pays you, check whether its customers still have the problem.
Ever hit five o'clock sure that nothing got done all afternoon? I keep a paper log for that. One line every time I switch tasks, and at the end of the day the page shows where the hours went.
Twelve minutes on what the notebook does that my software doesn't: youtu.be/gCk_VvI4K0Q
For 11 hours on Thursday, the Claude Code add-on in Cursor's marketplace was a copy Anthropic never wrote, and it added an attacker's login key to computers that loaded it. Cursor posted the hours and a check script the same day.
#cybersecurity
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Cisco's president gave a 27-year-old unlimited AI tokens to refactor 98% of the company's legacy code in 24 months. AI made writing the new version cheap. Finding the fixes and special cases customers rely on, the ones nobody documented, is still slow work.
Your price tells a buyer how much you believe in the product. Charge too little and a company with an expensive problem assumes you can't solve it.
Thirteen minutes on setting the number with a value-based method, from the pricing deep dive: youtu.be/JbTJI7U7E5I
Reddit is getting ready to make everyone log in. Search traffic dropped by over a million visits a week in October, and the users it can identify, logged in or on the app, already bring in over 80% of its money.
#founders
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Boston Scientific's own Watchman trial met its goal in March. Standalone Watchman cases still fell by a high-teens percentage last quarter. That trial studied patients Boston wants next. An independent one studied the ones it treats now.
Cases done during an ablation, where no second doctor has to refer the patient, grew about 35%.
Full Field Note: baserealitygroup.com/field-n…
Anthropic's S-1 reports an $80.7B loss and a $2.7B adjusted profit for the same six months. The adjusted number leaves out $2.2B of stock pay. The loss is built on a $72.4B fair-value line that moves with the share price.
The $72.4B line and the operating line, read against the filing: youtu.be/NRd0Cigs8sM
