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Out of ~15,000 seed-funded startups per fund cycle, maybe one produces a $10B+ revenue company. The people who build those aren't a better version of great founders, they're a different species entirely. A 2 sigma founder builds a $10-100M business. A 3 sigma founder builds a unicorn. A 4 sigma founder doesn't adjust their ambition to match reality, they adjust reality. Each level is a 10x jump, not incremental.
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<strong>The "Mismanaged Geniuses" Hypothesis (10 minute read)</strong>
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For the last decade, progress in AI came from making a single model bigger and feeding it more data. This post argues that the next leap won't come from scaling further. Current models are already good enough. The real bottleneck is how we organize and coordinate them. Better systems wrapping existing models will outperform one monolithic model trained on everything, and the field is only starting to figure out what that looks like.
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<strong>Every Feature Should Earn Its Place (5 minute read)</strong>
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Building a feature has never been cheaper. Carrying one is just as expensive as it's ever been. Every addition makes the product harder to learn, harder to maintain, and harder to evolve, and products rarely fail for lack of features. They fail because they accumulated too many that nobody had the discipline to kill. When execution gets cheap, the right response isn't to ship more, it's to raise the bar for what gets to stay.
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<strong>Act 2 (3 minute read)</strong>
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By the time a startup needs a second product, it's perfectly set up to fail at building one.
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<strong>How I Became Technical AF (3 minute read)</strong>
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A non-technical founder went from a few college CS classes to shipping production features daily with AI coding tools, now ranked top 1% of engineers at small startups.
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