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Revolut CEO says you can't out-compete people who work 9 to 9, six days a week.
@chameleon_jeff said the same thing in 2023. He was building his trading system 5am-10pm, 7 days a week, for months. Then he built Hyperliquid.
I was just in Singapore and around Asia, and I can totally back this up. It's not even about the hours, it's the attitude and motivation. People there are hungry. Coming back to Europe, the contrast is huge.
When the people who actually built these companies all say it, it's hard to argue with.
Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky: “The US is not that competitive. Europe is even less competitive.”
“China is competitive.”
“China is 9/9/6. Even if you are good in Europe, or in the US, how can you out-compete the people who work 9:00 to 9:00, six days a week?”
“I started in a co-working space with 140 companies. Within 5 years, only 3 companies survived. They all worked on the weekends.”
“Within 10 years, only 2 companies survived out of 140.”
“Working weekends is a must if you want to survive. Purely statistically.”
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"Everywhere we want to go, we want to dominate. Otherwise what's the point?"
Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky tells @TomMackenzieTV the digital bank's offering will be "at par with Amex or JPMorgan Chase," and add products those card giants don't have bloom.bg/46r3dRt
100% true
I’m getting increasingly worried that there’s no ROI in AI.
Yes, it replaces human effort and speeds up work, but it isn’t delivering more revenue.
But here’s the thing…
Human skills are deteriorating.
The AI labs don’t need to outperform humans, they just need to make us dependent.
Once they’ve achieved that, ROI doesn’t matter. AI will be viewed more like electricity: not optional.
But it’s more sinister than that. Once we’re hooked, the dealers can charge whatever they want.
And they’ll have to in order to justify this capex cycle.
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Classy, class.
@emirates : My favorite airline. Just keep your feet off the darn thingie.
Dubai: No matter what, will be my favorite city.
amazing business to be in
sell product launch video to bloated vc-backed companies
they will pay insane money to get reach
I was kinda skeptical with the design for @ElevenLabs cuz it was bit a innovative approach we took with this video but it turned out great
1.7 million views in 24 hours ..
Good luck breaking down our videos
Proud of my team at @addxstudio
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“Building in public” and “legibility to capital markets” are both directly in opposition to building a good company, and result in a worse startup. Your strategy and unique insights are your main weapons, especially in the age of ai, and sharing them openly with the world is how you lose and become one of many companies, rather than something special. This is why quant firms are so secretive. Anyone pushing you to share your strategy or unique insights with the entire world has incentives other than your company’s growth in mind.
why people never go deep?
1. web2app are growing dramatically
2. games are in decline, and being replace by short dramas which are... web2app
3. AI spend is happening outside of App Store (codex, claude code)
My dream as a kid was to visit Apple Store
In 2012 i saw the one in Munich for the first time
Staircase, Genius Bar, glass, devices...
Apple Stores hit differently in 2010s
