there are only 3 jobs:
1) make stuff
2) sell stuff
3) tell people in categories 1 & 2 what to do
way, way too many young people i talk to think 3 is the pinnacle. If you can find a category 1 job that pays your bills, it is magical living
Evan Armstrong
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Evan Armstrong
@itsurboyevan
Beauty, truth, and tech.
- you either die a consumer app or live long enough to see yourself become b2b SaaSIntroducing Partiful Org Profiles — a new way to plan and promote events for your organization.
00:00 - Replying to @visakanvOr, hear me out, your family should care about your achievements regardless of your storytelling skills lol
- Anthropic is in a tough spot. OpenAI has 50x the brand and consumer distribution. XAI has this platform captured. Google has an infinite money glitch going for them. How can they win? Good old fashioned marketing. They need to counter-position—make everything less creepy thanReplying to @AnthropicAIThis approach has made Sonnet the model of choice for developers worldwide. In addition to our new model, we're launching Claude Code, our first coding tool, in a limited research preview. With Claude Code, you can delegate substantial tasks to Claude—right from your terminal.
00:00 - Kinda insane that this entire debacle was potentially caused by @ByrneHobart's newsletter. Here's how the butterfly effect happened. 1) Byrne posts this article/Tweet calling out SVB's risk. 2) Pretty much every VC I know reads this newsletter 3) They all start to pay very,Also in today's newsletter: Silicon Valley Bank was, based on the market value of their assets, technically insolvent last quarter and is now levered 185:1.
- i'm like 99% sure pornhub's acquisition is a scam:
- name one successfully exited startup where the CEO is a prolific tweeter
- .@OpenAI's code interpreter could make 50%+ of finance and accounting folks redundant and maybe collapse the Netsuite empire. the tool is magic, gasp out loud ai that can ingest a csv and spit out intelligent, accurate analysis it is still in alpha, but man the future is here:
- I've been looking for an example of this for a year and I'm pretty sure they don't exist: - Worth 1B+ - Married to original spouse - Outstanding moral virtue - Kids are all relatively successful - Kids have a good relationship with parents Any idea? cc @FoundersPodcast
- Replying to @itsurboyevanIn summary: - a fund that doesn't exist - staffed with complete industry noobs - bought a company they can't afford - run by a bunch of shady characters this story is so obviously a conspiracy that it looks like a really lazy storyline in the Sopranos.
- technology is amazing: i'm sitting in a tin can flying at 500 mph through the sky, while simultaneously using AI to cowrite an essay, while streaming Mozart, all powered by melted sand processed in Taiwan. easy to forget what a miracle this all is
- securing a cushy job for yourself while leaving most of your employees at a husk of a startup feels icky
- venture capital is becoming a terrible product. returns are shrinking, founders are forced to pursue crazy risks, and it just smells rotten. today, i published the result of months of research on the root of the problem and the fix. enjoy.
