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The 12 rules of #entrepreneurship. I solo founded & bootstrapped the 1st influencer marketing agency way before influencer marketing was cool, drove it to eight figures in revenue & sold it. I’m now on my 2nd #startup & we’re profitable in year two. Here’s what I learned:
How will europeans feel in 20 years when the best soccer league in the world isn’t LaLiga or Premier League but the MLS?
Sam Altman’s most brilliant PR stunt so far. Everyone stopped talking about ChatGPT since the latest Anthropic update and that’s bad. This has everyone talking about ChatGPT again.
Aa sampling of the companies that have left California in the last five years. Tesla, Dropbox, Charles Schwab, Palantir, CBRE, Oracle among others in tech, finance and real estate.
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Maybe Block laying off a ton of employees is a sign that AI is gonna destroy everything
Or maybe the stock is down 80% from the highs and they overhired and AI is a convenient excuse
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$XYZ's headcount will revert back to pre-COVID levels at 6,000 employees.
Here is Jack's stupidity in headcount over the years.
2019: 3,835
2020: 5,477
2021: 8,521
2022: 12,428
2023: 12,985
2024: 11,372
2025: 10-12,000
He's using AI as a excuse to mask his failure
Jack Dorsey got embarrassed when Elon bought Twitter and fired 90% of the staff and made it a better app. At huge companies, 25% of the staff does all the work. The problem has been, you can’t identify that 25% is.
With AI now, the tools will let you better see who’s are the real performers and who’s hung in the corporate bloat.
CEO and leaderships team to their staff and investors is to deliver growth and innovation. Jack Dorsey is a great innovator but he hasn’t done shit for Twitter or Block in years if not a decade.
Other companies also know they can operate much leaner. But all of the Fortune 500 can’t fire half their staff and not trigger a massive recession.
we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.
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today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone.
first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay.
we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly.
i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures.
a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers.
we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold.
to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward.
to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow.
jack
Did Meta intentionally cause OpenClaw to go unhinged and delete emails?? Meta Director of AI safety and alignment has emails deleted out of control by OpenClaw.
Meta coincidently recently purchased Manus AI, a Chinese AI platform dedicated to very similar tasks and workflows as OpenClaw (now owned by OpenAI).
Her story went viral. AI fail or buckling marketing?
Alysa Liu is the type of talent China desperately wants but they’ll never have. Her success came in part because she’s a rebel. She quit figure skating because of intense rigidity and returned on her own terms. She would never have come out of the Chinese authoritative system. It’s fitting that she turned down their offers and that her iconoclastic spirit is what let to her success. She’s the epitome of the American Spirit. Well done, Ms Liu. The world is in awe.
Stop buying into this BS from AI CEO’s. It’s marketing to get everyone to try to use their products. It gets everyone’s attention and suddenly everyone’s talking about Microsoft AI. They just be good if they’re going to replace most white collar jobs in 18 months. No, it turns out that Microsoft AI is pretty bad and no one’s uses it.
AI can already do most tasks of a lawyer, accountant etc. The problem is that they can’t do those tasks sequentially in coordinating with additional info and data, adapting results and resetting in tasks.
Also, note that this interview is with the Microsoft AI CEO. Microsoft offers an AI pilot that is only adopted bc it’s part of the Microsoft ecosystem and Microsoft also does not have their own Frontier model. They’re a B player at best in the AI ecosystem
$PINS has 600M monthly active users. Does anyone actually have friends that use #Pinterest every day??!! it’s basically the same since it launched 15 years ago. it’s. decent app but i don’t see how it’s a $15B company. and you can’t tell me that their users aren’t just legacy users.
Waymo, a subsidiary of Google/Alphabet, which is one of the largest and most profitable companies in history, is rolling out cybertaxi’s nationally. They been shown to be dramatically safer than human driven cars and also assuage concerns of driver related incidents. There are around 2M ride share drivers in the US, all whom would lose their jobs if Waymo and self driving cyber taxi efforts were successful. It turns out the cyber taxi’s do need human supervision and intervention; but instead of being and training employees here where there will be mass disruption and job loss, Google has decided to outsource these jobs to the Philippines.
