Tailored crypto investment products @coinchangeio. Engineer, previously GP @bgsventure , co-founder @itmhouse. Proud Husband & Dad of 3
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Success requires balancing a deep knowledge of history with an obsessive focus on the technological edge where disruption happens. @bgurley
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The grit that matters most is learning to be your best when you’re at your worst. This is really the difference between elite-level performers and everyone else. And you have to train this kind of grit on its own, as a separate skill. But, if you can do this, what you discover is real power. There’s real power there—and it’s power you probably didn’t know you had @shaneparrish
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The alpha in a company is in the founder’s ability to spot non-obvious potential from their vantage point, apply it early and aggressively, and course-correct with new information.
"Late-stage venture is about late-stage founders. It's about a specific kind of person, who can keep deploying dollars attractively, indefinitely."
"The existence of founders like Ali Ghodsi or the Collisons has proven that the right kind of person can keep growing ambitiously, forever."
"You may as well accept that these founders are the asset class; let them cook."
a16z GP David George on what makes founders so good at growing ambitiously, forever: a16z.news/p/late-stage-ventu…
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Always direct opinions @theallinpod:
Most people give soft feedback because they care more about how the conversation feels than about whether the problem gets solved. This is selfish.
Another thought on this... A lot of people don't actually want direct feedback; they prefer something softer. When they hear direct feedback, they focus on how it makes them feel and not the substance. If you're focusing on how feedback makes you feel and not its accuracy, you're robbing yourself of the opportunity to get better.
Exceptional results happen when people are willing to give direct feedback and to hear it.
@shaneparrish
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Being around successful people shifts your ambition because extraordinary success feels attainable.
And when success feels attainable, you lock in and work longer, harder, and with more focus. @elonmusk
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If everyone agrees, you won't create much value. Deviate when you have an edge
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People who get an unusual amount of work done are maniacal about removing things from their lives that others tolerate.
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If intelligence is getting what you want, wisdom is wanting what's worth getting in the first place.
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Capitalism socialize more value creation and wealth than any socialism 💯🇺🇸
Jeff Bezos: "If I do my job right, the value to society and civilization from my for-profit companies will be much, much larger than the good that I do with my charitable giving."
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A San Francisco startup is making mini data centres for outside your house. Your neighbours will love not having to travel so far to protest. #xfra
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This is incredible how 20 years ago @elonmusk looked, spoke and communicated the same as today 🔥😎🇺🇸
youtu.be/xyCOvT1Y5YQ?si=Obtx…
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compute scarcity is the real AI bottleneck, and concretely will turn into a financial asset class as oil or electricity did.
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Love this episode! 🔥 full of insights!
The people who decide are going to get paid, the people who execute are competing against AI.
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Some tiny lessons from this conversation:
1. You regret slow decisions more than wrong ones.
2. Mistakes are ok, fear of making them is not.
3. Saying yes feels good in the moment (people pleasing, acceptance, instant gratification), but saying no is how you actually do things - x.com/shaneparrish/status/20…
4. The people who decide are going to get paid, the people who execute are competing against AI.
5. Product is the only thing that scales.
6. Most people start to climb a set of stairs, realize it's not where they want to go, but keep going so they don't have to admit they are wrong.
7. Before accepting a meeting, write out why you're accepting it - x.com/shaneparrish/status/20…
8. The 24 hour rule: You have 24 hours to feel the ick after a mistake. After that move on. (Same for success).
9. Prioritization is active, not something you do once. You make hundreds of adjustments a week.
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I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking. People would confront a problem by creating a presentation. I wanted them to engage, to hash things out at the table, rather than show a bunch of slides. People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint
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Urgency is the best predictor of personal success.
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Finally some CLARITY 🇺🇸🔥
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The crypto market structure bill has PASSED the Senate Banking Committee with a bi-partisan vote!
Historic day for crypto and for the future of digital assets in America. Grateful for the countless hours from lawmakers and staff to strengthen this legislation. Big improvement from where we were in January on rewards, tokenization, DeFi, and CFTC authority. I'm proud we stood up for our customers in that moment, and the bill is better because of it.
Looking forward to a bipartisan law that cements the US as the world's crypto capital. Let's get CLARITY done.
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Most success comes from 50 small things moving in the same direction, not one big thing.
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Gachapon — the name for both the machine and the toy — is a distinctly Japanese phenomenon: charming, inexpensive, pop-culture collectibles dispensed from ubiquitous self-serve machines.
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