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You trained your most difficult customer. Every off-hours reply, every scope exception, every discount under pressure taught them exactly where the line is. And it's nowhere near where you thought you drew it.

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I’ve long advocated the benefits of multi-model coordinated work, so this is totally believable. Looking forward to trying out, but my anecdotal experience doing something very similar says this will absolutely work, and I love the single endpoint and configurability. It will be interesting to test how far you can go down the cheap/dumb curve and still get frontier or near-frontier results.

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Jun 13

Introducing the Fusion API, the smartest compound model in the market. Fusion achieves Fable-level intelligence at half the price. How it works 👇

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Jun 12

Find the initiative in your business that's been in test mode the longest and ask one question: what result would make us stop? If nobody can answer, you've found an underfunded (or unnecessary) program hiding behind the word "pilot" to avoid accountability.

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Jun 12

Bezos raised $12B for a 150-person AI company with no public website. $41 billion valuation. Ten years ago that would have been unimagineable.

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Jun 11

American number I had to verify three times. In 2024, at least 58 million packages were stolen from American doorsteps. Other reports go above 100 million. Estimated consumer losses: about 15 to 16 billion dollars in a single year. In Japan, packages sit on the doorstep for hours. Yamato, Sagawa, Japan Post. If one box goes missing, it's a local news story. If a country has quietly accepted 15 billion dollars of porch theft as "just life," what else has it quietly accepted?

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Jun 11

VanMoof went bankrupt. Rad Power cut 40% of staff. Bird delisted. Lectric eBikes — bootstrapped, never took VC — shipped 150,000 units last year and just launched three new brands. There's a pattern here and it's not the bikes.

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Jun 11

Dario Amodei has one direct report at a trillion-dollar company. His sister runs everything else. This is a founder admitting out loud that running the company and building the product are two different full-time jobs, and choosing which one he wanted.

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Jun 10

CPI at 4.2%. Energy up 23%, and that's Iran, not demand. Shelter, the biggest weight in the index, actually slowed. If you run a business that doesn't burn jet fuel, today's headline number has almost nothing to do with your cost structure.

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Jun 10

Joe Lonsdale said it out loud: most 'AI productivity' layoffs are 2022 over-hiring corrections in better packaging. Andreessen co-signed. Nobody's shocked. The layoff memo is the one document where every CEO suddenly becomes a visionary.

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Jun 9

The companies I've watched get the most out of AI haven't cut anyone. They stopped hiring for certain categories of work, and nobody writes a press release about hiring you didn't do.

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Jun 9

A third of small business owners plan to raise prices next quarter — highest in four years. Optimism is below the 52-year average. Planning a price hike while feeling awful about the economy is the most reliable sign you've been undercharging.

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Jun 9

Pick your worst recurring meeting. What decision, if someone actually made it, would kill that meeting? Most of mine existed because the answer was 'nobody decided yet.'

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Jun 8

Cruxy surveyed 300 SaaS CEOs. Over half said their biggest competitive threat isn't another company — it's their own customers deciding to build it themselves. That number gets worse every quarter until somebody figures out what they're actually selling.

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Jun 8

Bain says AI isn't paying off for most companies. Weird. Every one I've talked to in the last six months still can't tell me what they want it to do.

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Jun 7

I've run businesses for twenty years and I still catch myself managing to whatever metric was already in place when I showed up. The number picks the behavior. Not the other way around.

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Jun 7

Two founders spent three months grinding through five startup ideas. Almost quit. Then built a game on a whim. It makes $144K a month. I keep thinking about the five that failed. They all had pitch decks.

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Jun 6

Researchers measured whether AI tools make experienced developers faster. They didn't. When they tried to repeat the study a year later, developers refused to participate. They won't code without AI anymore.

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Jun 6

Your most important vendor relationship probably isn't a contract. It's a handshake between two specific people. Both of them will change jobs eventually.

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Jun 3

A startup founder told a podcast he sleeps 3 hours a night and keeps a mattress in his office. I keep waiting for the interviewer who asks: what happens to your company if you get the flu for two weeks?

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Jun 3

Mercor's CEO says they spend more on AI tokens than employee salaries. I'd be fine with that — if someone could tell me exactly what those tokens produced last Tuesday.