Letting anyone or anything trigger you, is just giving up your power. If no one & nothing has that ability, you stand over all of them.↗

These 2 Michigan University students founded one of the most popular business newsletter companies. Alex & Austin made the news look cool with Morning Brew. In just 7 years, Morning Brew got: - $50M in annual revenue - 4M+ subscribers Breakdown of how they did it🧵↗

ngl, Upwork is an absolute goldmine for ideas 💰↗

hot take: I don't think generative AI is a category. it's new tech for building custom data transformations. with minimal instruction, you repeatedly transform (almost) any type of input data into any type of output data. this is a completely novel building block for engineers↗

Here's my full interview with @mikeknoop - Co-Founder & Head Of AI @ Zapier We discuss: - Zapier's 'Code Red' moment after the ChatGPT launch - 11 use cases of AI for internal operations - Zapier view on AI hiring & HC investments↗

Some lessons from being in the room where it happens: 1. Invest because of the one thing that could go right not the 100 things that could go wrong (@Uber ) 2. When you really believe, ignore rules about ownership/price and lock in the allocation you are offered (@Square ) 3. The…↗

Here's the growth journey so far↗

The 10 Most Popular Questions Answered by The Startup Archive in August The thread below lists the top 10 answers sorted by Twitter views #1 Peter Thiel: Is it better to target a small market or a large one? x.com/mikemcg0/statu…↗

I've invested in 35-40 different venture funds. The single best fund, by far, has returned 7.89x. For every $100,000 invested, they returned $789,000. And they aren't done yet. Sub $100m fund, tons of QSBS, couple unicorns, 4+ IPOs. When venture works, it really works.↗

LLM Fine tuning is here! San Francisco’s top AI engineers came together to see what’s possible with fine-turning and only 4 hours of hacking. Here’s an exclusive what we saw at the “Anything But Wrappers” hackathon (🧵):↗

People building AI products: what previously-infeasible product or feature did GPT-4 make possible for you?↗

8 weeks ago I hired a personal chef for my family. 👨‍🍳 It's been the best thing I've delegated recently. - Healthy meals all week - Saved time (no more cooking or deciding what to eat) - Improved quality of life Here's how much it all cost:↗

1/ Sharing our new Letter to Our Partners [ Lux Q2 2023 LP Letter ] “Drifting Upwards…”↗

I've been loving these custom instructions from @jeremyphoward... But sometimes it's a little too verbose, so I've modified the instructions to implement a verbosity level control (V=<level> where <level> is [0-5]). Full custom instructions below! #chatgpt↗

It's finally out! Been working on a blogpost with a couple LP friends on what good/great TVPI and DPI look like before fund term Simply put, how much of selling positions as a VC is a science and how much is art 👇↗

4 months ago, I started a newsletter. Today, it’s a 6 figure business. I work 4 hours a week on it. Here's the playbook:↗

We've been running the @nextjs job board on Github Discussions for 1.5 years now! 150+ companies like Walmart and Sony have posted jobs and several hundred developers have posted their profiles. I love getting emails like this from devs who landed jobs through it 🖤↗

Really smart business idea: - B2B - Productized service - Simple product (easily automated/outsourced) - They charge $2,400/customer/year - No brainer offer (1 closed deal covers yearly cost) - Low churn bc service directly makes newsletters more money getsponsorleads.com↗

"it takes us three months to build all the AI stuff and it might take Mailchimp 30 months. The question is, is 27 months enough for me and you to go and build every other feature in Mailchimp to the same standard. And if it's not, then we're goosed, we don't really have a play"↗

Very useful AI feature that people aren’t noticing is Whisper, the AI-powered voice to text system that is a free with the ChatGPT app It handles accents, noise, etc so much better than the Apple default that I will often use it for voice notes and paste the text into other apps↗

AI video has started to produce mindblowing results. (PT25) Here are the best AI videos this week:↗

Every week, SF’s top AI engineers and startup founders meet up and show what’s new in AI. No pitches. No grifting. Just code. Here’s what some of SF’s best hackers are up to this week at @cerebral_valley 🧵↗

ConferenceBadge.com might be for sales. 2019: $830 000 USD in revenue 2020: 🦠😷 2021: 🦠😷 2022: $564 000 USD in revenue 2023: En route for $700 000 USD in revenue DMs open. Will reply only to serious people/offers.↗

Who are great early-stage pre-seed AI funds? Should be comfortable with R&D-heavy aspects/risks and technically competent. @w_conviction comes to mind - who else?↗

AI STARTUPS VS. INCUMBENTS Every day a new AI product goes viral on this website. But if your product goes head to head with an incumbent, their distribution advantage will probably kill your company. So what can startups do to compete with incumbent distribution? Read on 🧵↗

Live tweeting projects from @HF0Residency demo day! What used to take teams of AI researchers and huge $$$ is now available through a few lines of code for every developer on earth. Here’s what hackers at the forefront of AI are doing with that power. (1/n)↗

If you're thinking about starting an AI newsletter, don't. If you started one already (and don't have 100k+ subscribers) you need to rethink your business model. CPMs are too low (~$20) to build a business on sponsorships alone. You need another way to monetize. Services, sub…↗

Congratulations to everyone who took part in our #BuildwithClaude hackathon over the weekend! We’re so inspired by all of the passionate hackers and their innovative solutions. Let’s take a look at the winners:↗

What are the most creative or unique VC landing pages? (working on a new post for @signatureblock_)↗

AI just changed the game in filmmaking 📽️ Creators can now generate cinema quality short films, trailers, and teasers with 100% AI in just a few hours 🤯 10 favorite examples that will blow your mind:↗