CEO @OutRivalAI (YC W19) Outbound AI Agents for Education, Insurance, and Travel | Cellist ๐ŸŽป | Prev @Career_Karma @AltSchool @Honor @Hustle

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1/ Today, we announce @OutRivalAI, designed to transform how businesses connect with their customers through Conversational AI, starting with Admissions Teams in Higher Education. After years of helping people break into tech w/ @Career_Karma weโ€™re expanding our mission. Here is what we are focused on: outrival.com/blog/ai-for-theโ€ฆ
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8 years ago, Apple became the first company to reach $1T market cap. Today, there are 14 companies over $1T Over the next decade, we will see the first $10T & possibly $100T company. All of these milestones are like the 4 minute mile, once one company does it, the floodgates open. Weโ€™ve consistently underestimated the amount of value to be created in the world. Weโ€™re just at the start, everything is going to get much bigger from here on out.
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Thatโ€™s a great point! Hard work and smart equity at the right company can create serious wealth, even as an โ€œemployee.โ€
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Good for @lrocket!
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There are many CEOs(employed) who are billionaires. Tim Cook, Satya Nadella, Jamie Dimon and Steve Balmer are just few examples.
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Who said you canโ€™t be a billionaire by being employed! Tom Mueller. SpaceX employee #1, his 0.06% stake is now worth ~1.11 billion!!
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SIR LEWIS HAMILTON BRINGS IT HOME! ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ† HIS FIRST IN A FERRARI AND A RECORD BREAKING 106th CAREER WIN. THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME. FORMULA 1 IS BACK. ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฝ

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Lewis Hamilton breaks the record for the most F1 wins (106), previously held by Lewis Hamilton (105)
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Elite admissions select for one trait: getting the known answer faster than anyone else. 18 years of optimizing against an answer key someone already wrote. AI just made the answer key free. Everyone has it instantly now. So the kids trained hardest to win spent their whole lives mastering the one thing that's now a commodity. The premium moved to the questions with no answer key yet. We need a new training. The new training is about one thing: How to be the first person standing in a new land, exploring it, preparing it for the coming billion people who will need it. The future will be built by these people. And there is a lot to build.
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Elon Musk got rejected by Netscape. He walked into the lobby, was too shy to talk to anyone, and walked out. Never got the job. At his first company Zip2, the board demoted him. Twice. They refused to let him be CEO. He got fired from PayPal as CEO while flying to his own honeymoon. The board voted him out mid air. He almost died of malaria in 2000. Ten days in intensive care. Lost 45 pounds. A day from death. His first child died at 10 weeks old. His first rocket exploded. Falcon 1, flight one. Burned on the pad. His second rocket exploded. His third rocket exploded. The last of his money was nearly gone. Tesla nearly went bankrupt in 2008. The closest he ever came to a nervous breakdown. Both companies almost died on the same Christmas Eve. He was sued by investors. Mocked by the people who built cars before him. His childhood heroes, the astronauts who inspired him, testified against his company to Congress. The Cybertruck window shattered on live stage in front of the world. He overpaid for Twitter by his own admission and watched its value collapse. He was beaten unconscious as a child and thrown down a flight of stairs. He has said he goes to sleep alone and it kills him. He failed in public, over and over, for thirty years. He is the richest man in the history of the world. The difference was never the absence of failure. It was the refusal to stop after it.
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Doing this with your best friends on both stages is something out of a Disney Channel Original Movie
2016 NCAA Champions. 2026 NBA Champions.
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Well Done, ESPN.
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Self recommending.
A conversation with Ed Catmull, founder of Pixar. I've been making podcasts about Ed for over 8 years. He invited me to his home and told incredible stories from his 60 year career. Ed worked with Steve Jobs longer than anyone else โ€” for more than a quarter century. We talked about what he learned from Steve, the founding of Pixar, building a company at the intersection of art and technology, why getting the team right is the necessary precursor to getting the idea right, and so much more. Ed is full of hard-earned practical wisdom. Spending time with someone Iโ€™ve studied for almost a decade was awesome. I hope you listen. 0:00 Most Companies Are Full Of Shit 4:28 The Brain Trust Mechanism 10:13 Why Steve Jobs Was Banned From The Braintrust 17:48 Your Job Is To Manage The Dynamics 23:27 Betting The Company On Toy Story 24:35 Engineering Eisner's Worst Nightmare 36:51 Bob Iger's Crappy Hand 38:44 Why Disney Never Asked What Pixar Was Doing 43:48 Take The Hard Problem 44:38 The Director Can't Lose The Team 48:48 Quality Is The Best Business Plan 52:32 What Walt Disney Taught Him 59:25 George Lucas And The Motion Blur Problem 1:08:48 Now What's The Point Of My Life 1:13:31 How Much Of This Was Me 1:16:10 George Lucas Wanted The Whole Industry Healthy 1:25:11 Refusing To Let Anyone Feel Second Class 1:32:38 The Truck In The Building Includes paid partnerships.
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Insane!!!
๐Ÿšจ LEWIS HAMILTON IS THE FIRST DRIVER EVER TO WIN A RACE FOR MCLAREN, MERCEDES AND FERRARI HISTORY MADE ๐Ÿ
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Hey so could we start building housing again in SF, that'd be great thanks!
Buckle up folks
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HEโ€™S DONE IT!!! ๐Ÿคฉ LEWIS HAMILTON WINS THE BARCELONA-CATALUNYA GRAND PRIX!!! ๐Ÿ†๐ŸŽ‰ #F1 #BarcelonaGP
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Some people are a thousand times better at furiously improvising than other people. Some are a million times better.
Five dimensional chess doesnโ€™t exist. Everyone is furiously improvising all the time. The future is utterly uncertain.
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X is the only platform where you can talk to a trillionaire
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this is like reverse 9/11
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To me, this is beautiful. No excuses, no unassailable mountain.
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one YC founder this batch went from $0 to $30K MRR in 2 months, entirely by showing up to his prospects' offices in person. he'll sit w/ engineers until they fully set up his product one company kicked him out after he went there 4 times in 1 week. but his close rate is >50%.
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