Silicon Valley optimizes for the 18-22 year old founder But probably the hungriest founder out there is the 27-34 year old founder
→ They were sold the american dream of go to college, get a job and stay in that job for 30 years and your life is sorted...they've realized…
So if I had to boil down my advice to one sentence, it would be: Find a kind of work that you're so interested in that you'll learn to do it better than AI can.
when a 18 y/o high school dropout yc founder with a b2b saas raising pre-pre-seed tells me he's hitting the cluely yc startup school afterparty and offers to pay for our waymo with his brex card then asks me what i'm building but im terrified to admit it's not cursor for windsurf…
𝗛𝘂𝗴𝗲 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲: 𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱
Build something without spending your credits!!
Why?
Because it’s AI Showdown time.
Anthropic vs OpenAI vs Google.
Three players. One playground. And you get to play judge.
Switch between Claude,…
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I used to think buying a premium dotcom domains were a waste of cash.
I’d hear stories of people spending $500k on a dotcom domain and would silently laugh to myself.
If only you spent that money on paid ads, viral…
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