Co-Founder @weekendhq The AI for Fun Company
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Launching a new company today: Weekend. Dedicated to the radical idea that AI should make life fun, not just efficient. Here's why: xitter.cf/mlchild/status/2026795…
I’m not a hardcore lyrics guy but this seems high for a song (Maps) with only one sentence
Rolling Stone reveals their top rock songs of the 21st century.
1. “Maps” - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2. “Seven Nation Army” - The White Stripes
3. “Mr. Brightside” - The Killers
4. “good 4 u” - Olivia Rodrigo
5. “The National Anthem” - Radiohead
6. “I Know The End” - Phoebe Bridgers
7. “Last Nite” - The Strokes
8. “99 Problems” - Jay-Z
9. “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor” - Arctic Monkeys
10. “Impossible Germany” - Wilco
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You've been grinding on S-1 teardowns for years. Dozens of boring SaaS companies. The time is now. This is your moment.
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low key fell off
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
low key a stolen post
The original tweet is listed below.
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another falls.
remember the ai browser wars of yesteryear?
if you value peaceful living, just run safari
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Lots of VCs kindof sound like this: "Your basketball team doesn't have a moat, any healthy human can throw the ball into the basket thingy. "
People who have not run companies before don't understand how much the team matters more than some imagined structural moat.
This movie is THE PRESTIGE for holmes...she's pushing the icepick into her hand for real to rescue her reputation
On the latest Cerebral Valley Show, @mlchild and I talk You Can See Everything youtu.be/--mWMg_kv64?is=poFi…
We saw EVERYTHING and think @aGuyOnMyPhone has the most insightful take...the movie is designed to make you believe Holmes!
Do it for love of the game
This makes sense as an investor observation but I don’t want to celebrate it as advice for founders.
There’s something dispiriting about treating people’s passion for their work as a problem. Is that really what we want to see in the world which already has enough mercenaries?
Vanta is a great business, and I know Christina cares about the problem she’s solving.
But I don’t way to celebrate this framing.
I want founders to keep trying to do great things. To make something they care about better, and find out how much they can contribute.
Investors should fund that ambition.
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This isn’t the same thing despite common misconception.
Predicting the color of the ball is in the world of risk: both possibilities and probabilities are known.
The analytics decision is in the world of Knightian uncertainty: the probability is actually unknown.
Sports analytics will try to convince you these are the same thing, but it’s fundamentally different. Historical numbers, comps etc do not have the precision that people falsely give them. They can be helpful in giving you directionality, but they are not precise probabilities. 51% basically tells you either option is fine, adjust for your own specific context and make your best decision under uncertainty.
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Three reasons why the data industry is dominated by young people (<28), even more so than other large AI markets:
1. We are at the beginning of a supercycle and young people are unburdened by priors of what durable equity value looks like
2. Young people have time and energy, and data is intense (part of what makes it hard)
3. AI researchers and adjacent lab employees also skew young, and these relationships matter a lot
Character.ai filing for bankruptcy while #8 on a16z consumer AI leaderboard says a lot about the state of the business (precarious!)
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Narrative violation - ChatGPT is gaining share in the consumer AI market
Even on a much larger starting base than competitors (more saturation), they've seen accelerating net new adds for the past four months
