"My first piece of advice about hiring is don’t do it. The most successful companies we’ve worked with at YC have waited a relatively long time to start hiring employees... Resist the urge to derive your self-worth from your number of employees." - Sam Altman

When your dream is big, you are always humble. Dream bigger and be humbled.

the only skill that matters 5 years from now is communication; start to hire foreign language students, not computer science students; foreign language students are the best at communicating with AI

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I have never, ever, ever heard or seen someone dream big, work at it constantly for 20 years and not achieve it. Ever.

Deepseek is AI that costs pennies. Unitree is Robots that cost less than a MacBook. DeepSeek + Unitree G1 = the future of cheap, scalable digital labor. It’s not science fiction anymore. ❤️🤖

What happens if high quality AI models become free, ubiquitous, and inexpensive to run on even low-spec hardware? (1) First, you can rebuild every productivity app AI-first. That starts with Microsoft Word, Google Sheets, and Apple Keynote. But it extends to wholly new kinds of

Some of us will always be trying—with an exasperating degree of relative success—to improve ourselves in one way or another, and no amount of self-acceptance will stop it.

Bible Chat is organizing its most significant event yet: a prayer for Pope Francis’s peaceful transition to eternal rest. We invite millions of Christians to unite in this heartfelt prayer. To join this massive collective prayer, use this link: get.biblechatdaily.com/ktnX/w5bddgzj

any good startup dies and then is ressurected through the faith of the founders - this is the most important role of the founders in any business saga

Congrats to Bible Chat for pulling off the impossible: hitting the Top 10 in the United States with a religion-focused app. Last year I started advising the founder Laurentiu-Victor Balasa on growth and his team is among the top product developers I've ever encountered.

WHY RETENTION IS SO HARD FOR NEW TECH PRODUCTS I’ve been staring at retention curve data for 15-plus years now. I was a founder, a product manager, and now a VC. And at Andreessen Horowitz, I end up meeting hundreds of startups each year, many of them through our a16z speedrun

Bible Chat Laurentiu-Victor Balasa Goddammit

🚨 JUST IN: Stunning data reveals Christianity is SURGING in the United States Bible sales: +41.6% App downloads: +79.5% Christian music streaming: +50% What an amazing sight to see.

the miracle of this existence is so incredibly grand, one needs 7-8 hours of sleep each day to digest it