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The only reason they didn’t literally lock you in your home is that they don’t have the technology yet.

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No one is going to pay you what you’re worth. You have to start a company.

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Ozempic may be the greatest mass murderer in history… Think about it.

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You can outsource everything but product and marketing.

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Goodbye OpenAI. I recommend all employees quit. Your board has defamed your old CEO, kept you in the dark all weekend and gone through two CEOs in about 48 hours. They’re incompetent beyond measure.

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Nothing is complicated, it is just poorly explained.

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I remember an interview with a Google exec who said there are essentially two kinds of employees. There are the ones where you have to check their work. And then there are the ones who do work you could have never anticipated or imagined.

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The only reason to live in America is to worship freedom. Otherwise, there are better places to live.

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The Apple Vision Pro tech specs belong in sci-fi: 1. Photon-to-photon latency

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I’ve completely rewritten and expanded my GPT Custom Instructions: - Be highly organized - Suggest solutions that I didn’t think about—be proactive and anticipate my needs - Treat me as an expert in all subject matter - Mistakes erode my trust, so be accurate and thorough -

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The OpenAI board’s hallucinations about Sam’s lack of candor spurred law enforcement inquiries, according to WSJ. This would be gross negligence and defamation. On Friday, after the board defamed Sam in their blog post, the company got calls from law enforcement, including the

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4 years

Personal brands will win solely because corporate marketing is boring.

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5 years

If you're good at sales, sell the most expensive thing you can. If you're good at product, build the highest leverage thing you can.

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3 years

Better to think for yourself, and be wrong, than to outsource your thinking.

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4 months

A computer program cannot be intelligent. Intelligence requires creativity and a program cannot be creative because its output is pre-determined. I cannot fathom how people don’t get this.

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10 months

“Employees… refused to attend an emergency all-hands scheduled on Sunday with new CEO Emmett Shear”

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11 months

Everyone left at Open AI is about to get a lesson in the amount of founder willpower it requires to build a company.

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5 years

Founder’s definition of a co-founder: I can’t do the company without them.

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Naval takes down One-Party rule on Megyn Kelly, who scored the impossible-to-get interview.

The Megyn Kelly Show

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. @naval on how the unfair and dangerous lawfare against Trump made him get off the sidelines. Watch below, and subscribe:

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You can stop crying about why all the episodes are so short. The megasode is here.

The Beginning of Infinity, Part 1

A collection of all the episodes on The Beginning of Infinity. Science Is the Engine That Pulls Humanity Forward “Believe in science” is an oxymoron Welcome, Brett, to the eponymous Naval podcast....

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3 years

If you don’t have free speech, you live in a dictatorship—I don’t care if you can “vote”.

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5 years

Naval and I are bringing back the blog that started AngelList. Out of hibernation.

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11 angel investing lessons

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4 years

For a while now, MBAs have been a negative signal for early-stage startups. Soon it will be any college degree.

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6 years

The 4 types of luck, in cliches: 1. Dumb luck (random) 2. Fortune favors the bold (action) 3. Chance favors the prepared mind (preparation) 4. Extreme people get extreme results (unique action)

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Ways to get lucky: • Hope luck finds you. • Hustle until you stumble into it. • Prepare the mind and be sensitive to chances others miss. • Become the best at what you do. Refine what you do until this is true. Opportunity will seek you out. Luck becomes your destiny.

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3 years

Long press the search button to skip the bullshit. Long press the share button to go straight to the iOS native share sheet. Thank you Twitter!

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3 years

The only career trajectory these days is going from having a schedule to no schedule.

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5 years

Resumes are useless. Portfolios are useful.

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5 years

It must be terrible to work at a big company. I don't care what you're making.

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2 years

You’re only going to get paid for the stuff AI can’t autocomplete for you.

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3 months

@alex_valaitis Look at the words and think deeply about them. Look beyond the concepts as you see them. Meditate on it for 10,000 years if necessary.

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5 years

Founders deal in affirmations. Things come true because they say they’re true.

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4 years

If your startup doesn’t have principles, they will be provided to you by brainwashed employees.

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4 years

Every startup role is merging: GP, LP, founder, employee. Don't let anyone tell you different.

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5 years

Learn to write. It’s the high-level language of the Internet.

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6 years

AngelList posted huge #’s today - 23 unicorns in portfolio, $1B assets under management - 45K startups recruiting, 2M candidates job-hunting in ‘18 - 20K products launched on Product Hunt in ‘18 - 75% of top U.S. seed startups use AngelList or PH!

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6 years

Long term players make each other rich. Short term players make themselves rich.

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Pick an industry where you can play long term games with long term people.

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4 years

If the truth can be known to one man, it can be known to all men.

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7 years

Want to understand Bitcoin? Read 3 chapters of Applied Cryptography, then read 1 post.

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1 year

Here are my GPT Custom Instructions so far: - I like how organized you are with your thoughts - I also like it when you are proactive and mention features and solutions that I didn't think about - Cite sources whenever possible, and include URLs if possible - Put URLs at the

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5 years

Startups succeed when overqualified people do the dirty work.

Andrew Reed

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5 years

Fun read but misleading. I joined @sequoia at 23. You learn in ~2 weeks that the VCs attending every happy hour, SXSW, want a 'cool' job, not a successful one. Actual work = heavy-duty internet surfing, Linkedin, cold emails, memos and reference calls.

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I removed 30 minutes (!?) of filler words from Peter Thiel’s interview on Rogan so I could listen to it without having a seizure… enjoy!

Peter Thiel on Rogan.mp3

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5 years

The best network you can build are the people you hire. Nothing else comes close.

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4 years

The writing isn’t bad—the thinking is.

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AngelList 2019: - $1.8B AUM - 47 unicorns in portfolio - 36% of all top-tier deals - 3.5M candidates job-hunting - 25K product launches

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3 years

The best founders will never be VCs.

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5 years

If you're buying a tech company when it goes public, you are literally last in line.

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IPOs Are for the Last Investors in Line

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4 years

Back in the day, you could show up in SF, make a few good decisions and end up rich and successful in 5-10 years. Now what do you do?

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If Steve were still alive, he would be turning Apple upside down to build AI.

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4 years

Naval’s podcast is going email-only starting Monday. We are cancel-proofing baby. Subscribe here:

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3 years

I would rather see the catastrophic failures we do now, than wait for them to turn the keys on global control.

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4 months

The situation in Silicon Valley has flipped from woke to whatever the opposite of that is. Keep in mind these people generally move very early. See the implosion of Silicon Valley Bank. Or buying bitcoin in 2010. Or inventing modern AI.

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5 years

Everybody’s trying to make you more predictable.

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3 years

Whatever you’re looking for, some fool on the Internet is doing it.

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You will learn infinitely more from writing, than reading.

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5 years

Busy people give their time freely to those who don’t waste it.

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11 months

I am stupefied by the level of hubris and delusion of a 4-person board that wants to build AGI to benefit all humanity, yet treats their team and founders like human garbage.

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6 years

Startups succeed when overqualified people do the dirty work.

Angela Jiang

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6 years

To assess if a person is a real operator, test if they have attention to detail in something mundane

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5 years

Performative is a good word to know. It’s when people do things for the appearance of doing them. “How are you?” is a great example.

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4 years

. @DavidDeutschOxf ’s favorite forms of refutation: - The argument disproves itself when applied to itself - The argument could explain anything - The argument ends the growth of knowledge - The argument is an infinite regress - The argument is easy to vary

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3 years

Competition is God’s gift to humanity.

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6 years

“Where to Go After Product-Market Fit” is the best content from @pmarca since he shut down the blog. Must read.

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7 months

Equality under the law turned into equality of opportunity, which turned into equality of outcome, which is turning into eliminating equality under the law.

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3 years

Silicon Valley people don’t ‘pay it forward’ because they’re good people. They implicitly know they’re in a positive-sum game—and they’re greedy.

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3 years

If you’re using the same language as everybody else, you’re under mind control.

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7 years

Fake news isn’t new—it’s just democratized propaganda. It used to be a government monopoly. Now anyone can do it with social media.

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4 years

New on @naval ’s YouTube: - Happiness collection - Previously unpublished Kapil Gupta interview - Previously unpublished Periscope - A million Clubhouses

Kapil Gupta: Conquering the Mind

Transcript: http://nav.al/kapil. Kapil: http://twitter.com/KapilGuptaMD.Highlights:- Sincerity -Naval: “I can always tell that people who ask for stock tips,...

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5 years

Think more. Say less.

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5 years

Never negotiate your compensation based on what’s “market.” That's a trap. The only thing that matters is your opportunity cost. But you must be willing to walk away. That's the definition of opportunity cost.

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10 months

This is the mayor of New York basically saying that the federal government is trying to destroy the country. Which makes sense when you look at the border.

Viral News NYC

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The NYC Mayor Eric Adams states the federal government won't help NYC with the migrant crisis.

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Families sacrifice the older generation for the younger generation. The state does the opposite.

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2 years

Universal computers perform any possible computation, with the right program. Universal explainers create any possible knowledge, with the right idea. Universal constructors build any possible object, with the right instructions. “Possible” means “allowed by our universe.”

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3 years

Naval podcast is not a podcast—it is a new form of media. Few understand this.

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4 years

Investing forces you to be both rational and optimistic.

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5 years

If it’s not obvious by now, all but a handful of VCs are going to get crushed by operators like Andreessen, Sacks and Rabois.

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3 years

The only basis for mass coordination is to build win-win games.

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5 years

The best part of reading a book is when you stop reading to reflect and research. I don’t do enough of that.

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9 months

Reading through the tweets, here's what people are saying about AngelList’s cap table product: - “Highly recommend AngelList! Moved over from Carta last year & have been super happy!!” - “AL Equity will always be significantly cheaper (for us, it's 65% cheaper vs. Carta)… the

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3 years

Raising money from VC firms is going the way of the Dodo. At any stage. You will raise money from operators. They will be able to write $100 million checks. Most will still be working a full-time job.

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How do you do nothing? You can't. How does it happen? It just happens. When does it happen? When you're not there. When aren’t you there? When you're not doing anything.

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Over a decade later, this is still the most useful framework for thinking about customers for your MVP. From @sgblank originally, I believe.

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Formula for a successful entrepreneur. Can build or sell with the best. Doesn’t give up. Knows when to pivot. The end.

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Theory of knowledge: – All knowledge is conjectural (made up) – It cannot be deduced from anything except other knowledge – Knowledge improves when we correct errors in it, but remains conjectural

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What confuses most people about the Internet is that it is simultaneously an extremely unifying and disunifying force. It goes by many names: aggregation and disaggregation, scale and specialization, coupling and decoupling, power laws and long tails.

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4 years

“Teach people to vote themselves money.”

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6 years

If gurus really believed in their advice, they would pay you to take it. See @lambdaschool , @ycombinator .

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Democracy doesn’t work without decentralization. It’s too easy for the people to vote to concentrate power and then have your favorite villain take it over by force or ballot.

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2 years

Every fringe behavior is growing because the Internet is the ultimate matching machine. Choose your mental illness wisely.

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11 months

Either Sam or Microsoft or both of them may sue to take over Open AI. The corporate structure is novel and therefore full of holes, and the remaining board are pushovers. They will not withstand the pressure.

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6 years

Before product-market fit, the team survives on camaraderie. Don’t hire without it.

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1 year

With AI, the cost of being illiterate at programming just went up by a factor of 1000x at least.

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5 years

One thing missing from most job descriptions. Can they hire, fire and inspire talent.

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3 years

Judge the quality of your neighborhood by how many walks you take.

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You can find every iconoclastic new idea on the Internet 10 years before everybody else, if you aren’t afraid of crazy people.

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People still don’t understand they’re competing on a global stage. Don’t bother unless you’re literally the best.

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Today is probably the biggest shift in American political opinion since 9/11.

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5 years

If you're doing a “startup startup”, I want to know about it. And potentially invest. DM me. Examples: @angellist , @cartainc , @atrium , @atlas , @bankmercury .

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5 years

Always say less than necessary… the human tongue is a beast that few can master. – @robertgreene

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4 years

Recruiting is marketing and every other CEO just missed the chance to say this first.

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6 years

What the @AngelList team has built for startups is insane: online fundraising, online recruiting, launches on @producthunt , ICOs on @coinlist , crowdfunding on @joinrepublic . Watch as they scale the business.

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No schedule. Only three todo lists. Send calls to voicemail. Strategic incompetence. Notifications twice a day. Structured procrastination. Write your todos down for the next day.

Pmarchive · Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity

An archive of the best articles from Marc Andreessen’s now defunct blog

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