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Last week, I went to Detroit for @Reindsummit to deliver a message: The future will be Made in America, by Americans. Here’s how we’re going to do it. 🧵

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Too many startup founders are allergic to sales teams. Especially in AI startups that hit a few million in ARR without one—they think they don’t need it. Big mistake. Docusign has 2,200 people in sales for a reason. If you want to scale to 100M ARR, you need one.

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About 500,000 manufacturing jobs remain open every month.

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Tesla VP of Vehicle Engineering Lars talked for 55 minutes today at the X Takeover event and he gave us some nuggets. A 🧵

Ummm: I didn’t know that Gusto HQs was a former machine workshop for submarines. I love this so much re-thinkingthefuture.com/case-studies/a…

This conversation between Aditya Agarwal (South Park Commons) and Bret Taylor (Sierra) is sooooooo goood youtube.com/watch?v=tGUsIg…

My "new" favorite website for the weekend. If you know, you know

An old episode from The Twenty Minute VC pod but incredible youtube.com/watch?v=uEKd2M… So many gems on it. Thanks Harry Stebbings ajtennant

I've never been in the Washington state, and watching this video has made to realize that I need to visit it ASAP. So much green there youtube.com/watch?v=KeW-QZ…

RIP Sig Sauer

The actual problem with the SIG Sauer P320 is this one: Is any good alternative out there? 🤷🏾‍♂️ Context: youtu.be/jOMQOtOQoPk?si… king5.com/article/news/i…

Madhavan Ramanujam (Madhavan Ramanujam) has helped 30+ unicorns architect their pricing strategies. He also wrote the definitive book on pricing strategy, Monetizing Innovation, and next week, he's releasing his newest book, Scaling Innovation: How Smart Companies Architect Profitable

So this week at Gauntlet AI it was “legacy enterprise codebase week” and I offered a $1,000 bounty to Gauntlet challengers who would tackle gnarly codebases in Fortran, Assembly, COBOL. Turns out with some massaging and a lot of setup AI becomes very, very good at this.

Maybe the most important slide from my chat Madhavan Ramanujam A 2x2 for determining your ideal pricing model: "There's attribution and autonomy. The bottom left, that is the quadrant where your attribution is low, and your autonomy is low. In that situation, the best pricing