Wall Street’s Best Ideas: Suddenly asset-heavy CoreWeave has less appeal Artificial intelligence mavens CoreWeave have flipped the script, going “asset-heavy,” and not everyone’s thrilled about that. Plus, the fantasy valuation of Circle Internet’s stablecoin dreams.
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Early Podcast Episode with Cursor AI Founders Captured
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lowkey still kinda proud that we were the first podcast to feature @amanrsanger and @cursor_ai back in the day and we got the frozen in time oral history of the thinking back then when they were a baby company of 4 cofounders and 1 eng who just forked vscode hopefully valuable
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Founder Responsibility: Ethics Beyond Profit
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You are wrong. You have a responsibility to act ethically as well as make money as a founder.
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Entrepreneurs Have Agency to Refuse Building Bad Things
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Don't build bad things. I have taught entrepreneurship for over a decade, been a founder myself, and all I can say is that you have agency over what you choose to do, and you can refuse to do bad things (or fund bad things, VCs), even if that idea would make you a lot of money.
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AI Builders Have Responsibility for Outcomes
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Just a reminder that you can build a lot of different things with AI, and some of them can clearly help the world & some of them are going to make the world worse. In addition to AI labs and AI users having responsibility for outcomes, all you builders and startup folks do, too.
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Six-Figure Newsletter Models and Office Hours Membership Bundle Strategy
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I don't have a ton of examples, but I look at Write With AI as an example of a 6-figure newsletter in a similar space. And over on Substack, there are a bunch that seem to be doing pretty well. I'd bundle this with my weekly Office Hours membership…
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AGI Alpha: Montreal AI’s Next Giant Leap Forward
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[ "We Choose To Ascend With AGI" ] Like the Apollo Moon landing, "AGI Alpha" is our next giant leap – the greatest opportunity of our time. GitHub: https://
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AI Dominates Y Combinator: 85% Companies, Agents Leading Growth
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AI is eating the start-up world. More than 85% of @ycombinator companies are AI companies, up from ~20% before ChatGPT launched. Of the 85%, about a third are AI Agent companies, which is the fastest growing category of start-ups (~doubled in 3 years). @garrytan @paulg
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10-Step AI Adoption Roadmap for Startups and SMBs
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Want to adopt AI in your Startup or SMB but don’t know where to start? Here’s a 10-step roadmap by @thriwinai that nails it: 1. Define goals 2. Map processes 3. Check data readiness 4. Do a feasibility study 5. Pick the right tools 6. Design the workflow 7. Pilot small
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AI Cloud Employees Automate Office Work via Computer-Use Simulation
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AI Cloud Employees Have Arrived, Focused on Automated Office Work, Can Be Understood as an AI's Computer-Use, Similar to Manus WarmWind – Can Apply for Waitlist – German Startup Highlights
• Can Simulate Human Mouse and Keyboard Operations, Directly Using Real Applications, No
