AI-native operator, shipping daily | Founder at Automatic
Joined August 2010
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19 Apr 2023
Here are the leadership philosophies, and my ethos, I build teams around. This grouping has succeeded since 2004 in creating high-performing teams with minimal attrition. In no particular order:
#leadership
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macOS Golden Gate Wallpaper 🌁
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Models are not close.
As a business strategy, this alarm is smart. They are currently ahead, and scaring everyone into a pause keeps them ahead.
That's all this is. They have the lead, and they want to keep it.
BREAKING: Anthropic has urged for a global pause in AI development as artificial-intelligence models are nearing capability to improve without human intervention, per WSJ
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I have all the love in the world for @edzitron, if you aren't subscribed to his newsletter at wheresyoured.at/ you should really remedy this.
To go out publicly and say what he is saying, @edzitron has balls the size of the Las Vegas sphere
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Jun 5
This is an insane story. The DOGE whistleblower who said that login attempts were made to the NLRB from Russian IP addresses minutes after DOGE got access had his brake lines cut and photos of him walking his dog from a drone taped to his door after Musk attacked him on Twitter
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Jun 4
This is the most sober and sobering analysis of AI investing that I have seen. The cannibalizing the passive flows in idices has been buzzing in my head for weeks now...
x.com/DarioCpx/status/206242…
To go out publicly and say what he is saying, @edzitron has balls the size of the Las Vegas sphere
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Needed to pull out an important part of the interview.
AI is often justified by comparing it to Amazon Web Services' ($57bn) or Uber's ($32bn) losses, when its costs/losses are hundreds of billions of dollars worse.
There'll also be little useful infrastructure left behind.
To go out publicly and say what he is saying, @edzitron has balls the size of the Las Vegas sphere
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May 29
Merch from the recent North America tour is now available in our webstore! Get it while it lasts: found.ee/TheMidnight-Store
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CBS will stand down and stop any further action on takedowns of Stephen Colbert's public access show.
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May 21
That’s a wrap! Our first North American leg of Time Machines is over. Big thanks to our friends @NCMusic420 for joining us every night. And thank you to everyone who came out to a show - you are the reason our music continues.
Photo 1 by Scott Teresi; 2-4 by James Grossi
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May 19
Fuuuuuuuuuuuck.
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May 15
SYNDICATE (DELUXE). OUT NOW. lnk.to/themidnight-syndicate…
Tracklist:
1. Love Is an Ocean (Chromeo Remix)
2. Runaways (Driver405 Remix)
3. Last Night in Paris (feat. Carpenter Brut)
4. Infinite (Demo)
5. Against The Dark (Demo)
6. ‘Til The Stars Come Out (Demo)
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May 15
Departments exist to manage risk. P&Ls exist to take calculated risk. If your departments are blocking P&Ls from moving, you've built a compliance machine not a business.
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May 14
CRO on a $200k daily spend brand is brutal. A 0.5% lift is $1k more per day. That's $30k monthly. Most optimization work isn't worth the complexity at that scale.
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At 18 to 26 people the hardest conversation is admitting your founding team can't run the next chapter. Not because they're bad. Because scaling requires different skills.
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First hire mistake: VP of Sales at 8 people. He built a sales org. Took 3 months to realize you don't have enough customers to sell to. You needed operations, not revenue.
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$140k daily spend is the inflection point. Below it, channel arbitrage works. Above it, you need systems. Most brands don't prepare for the moment their growth strategy breaks.
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Watched a founder give feedback the same way at 40 people as they did at 4. By year 2 half the team thought they were failing. They weren't. He just never adapted his communication.
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The ops person who says you need more meetings at 12 people is wrong. The ops person who says you need fewer at 60 is also wrong. It's not about the number. It's about information flow.
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At 8 people you hire for culture fit. At 22 you hire for the role. At 60 you hire for experience. At 200 you're hiring to fix broken systems. Most founders never notice the shift.
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