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When you think about it one of the reasons why this video is so viral is because it’s a continuation of the last one everybody wants to see how the previous video ended so you’re sourcing the same people. “Algorithm” does the work from there
there's nothing worst than drafting a long thread on x and then it just getting deleted mid write. i can't draft here anymore
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Isaiah Rashad brought out Schoolboy Q & Jay Rock to perform ‘Shot You Down’ in LA 😭🔥🔥🔥
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“There’s actually only a few real players, like serious players.”
Sara Du on why a crowded market shouldn’t discourage solo founders:
“I think a lot of first-time founders get so dissuaded from doing things because they’re like, ‘Oh, this person’s doing this already. There’s like so many things that look like this.
And it’s the same with like, people who say they’re grinding, but then you look at their GitHub and they’re not dark green.
You can still basically be like a top percentile founder if you just put in like the sheer hours and the thought of like building something that you believe should exist in the world.”
Slack was built before AI and you can tell.
This solo founder raised $20M to build the workspace for humans and agents.
Solo Founders Podcast ep 30 is live with @saradu of @andocorporation.
01:19 Two companies, two motivations
05:29 A problem worth ten years
08:43 Why now, and why so few competitors
19:36 Agents are coworkers, not tools
33:15 The locked office building
37:07 An agent's first 90 days
42:53 Trust runs backwards with agents
54:05 Georgia to SF at 17
1:09:30 The bear and bull case for going solo
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Just found the old list of patents out IP lawyers for Broadcast com were going to file but never got around to under Yahoo. Not saying they all would have been granted, but if you ever need prior art in this area, here you go lol.
Potential broadcast.com Patent Applications
January 4, 1999
1. Geographic IP Identification
Technique for pin-pointing the geographic location of a static IP device by triangulating routes taken by IP packets and building a database of IP addresses and DNS names.
2. Hybrid Networks
A commercial network of unicast and multicast enabled networks that terminates at a single point and which enables digital content to be distributed in a one-to-many fashion across multiple networks from a single initiation point.
3. Multi-Network Multicast
A commercial network of multicast enabled networks that terminates at a single point and which enables digital content to be distributed in a one-to-many fashion across multiple networks from a single initiation point.
4. Reverse Auction
Online auction mechanism in which a buyer who desires to purchase goods defines that desire, along with a maximum price that s/he will pay. Potential sellers then respond by offering their goods at a price below any previous bidders and at or below the designated maximum price.
5. Audio Ad Delivery
Software techniques for parsing files served by web server and acting upon text to perform functions such as audio ad rotation and synchronized audio ad/pop-up URL scripting.
6. Web Server Reporting System
Software techniques for reporting on very large web server of files across multiple web servers in order to comply with industry-standard web server reporting practices.
7. Commerce Payment Gateway Integration
Modular software routines for interfacing with a variety of payment getaway vendors (e.g. Mpact, Cybersource) for pay-per-view/listen and for traditional e-commerce.
8. Streaming Server Parsing And Reporting
Software techniques for reporting on very large streaming server log files across hundreds of streaming servers.
9. Streaming Authentication System
Custom database and related Software routines that extend RealAudio's 5.x implementation of user and player authentication.
10. Web Page Generation System
Set of databases and scripts for automatically generating website sections such as CD Jukebox, Radio Stations, AudioBooks, etc.
11. Live Events Management System
Custom data base and web-based system for managing daily events by collecting data on each event and "publishing" collected data to various groups as needed.
12. Automatic Content Promotion
Set of scripts that run against live event databases and generate files for publishing to Yahoo!, Real Networks, and CMP.
13. Telephony-Based Content Publication
System that allows people to call into a voice-mailbox and leave messages which are then automatically encoded into multimedia content and hosted on a website.
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"Business books tend to be really obsessed with make a right choice."
But most people actually make decent choices when there is only one good option.
"The problem is there's a lot of good choices. This is where things get really hard."
Lets say there are 5 good options. How do we choose now?
One of them leads to immediate revenue. It's a good choice will will reward you immediately. The other 4 might be better choices but they don't lead to anything immediate and 2 of them actually have a short term negative impact, even though the long term impact is massively higher than the other options. They make you a much better company.
"Choosing the right among of the valid solutions is actually the hard part, not finding a right solution. And unfortunately, there's so much ink spilled on finding one of the right solutions that everyone stops at this point. And I just really don't think this is the f-hard part."
My third conversation with Shopify co-founder and CEO @tobi.
0:00 How Shopify Uses AI
7:18 River: Shopify's Internal AI
8:55 How to Encourage Osmosis Learning
10:52 AI Dreaming and Self-Reflection
11:53 How to Use AI for Strategic Decision Making
14:11 The One Thing AI Cannot Do
16:04 What AI is Making Worse at Shopify
19:46 Predictions: Where AI is Headed Next
21:55 The Future of AI-Powered Software
24:40 Will CEOs Be Replaced with AI?
27:54 Can Superintelligence Be Controlled?
31:13 Critical Skills in AI Age
34:22 Why Complex Solutions are Usually Wrong
36:33 Conditions Needed for True Intuition
38:02 The Best Path Doesn't Have Instant Feedback
44:51 How Affirmations Can Shift Your Behavior
50:44 The Inobvious Thing Hurting Companies
52:37 Relationship Between Beauty and Creation
56:23 How SpaceX Moves Forward By Subtraction
1:00:24 Why Companies Need Refounding Events
1:01:50 Books as Cheat Codes
1:02:39 Three Books to Change Your Thinking
Enjoy!
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🚨 Announcement: I am looking for 100 channels to implement my 2027 YouTube playbook with!
Today, we officially open up applications for my next Accelerator cohort.
The program behind some of the fastest growing youtube channels in the world.
In October we will take 50-100 creators and give them:
- 8 weeks of intense training (all live with me)
- 30+ hours of material
- Our full playbook to dominate any niche
- Our ideation system for million view videos
- Personalized strategy support to build their plan
- Personalized feedback and execution help
We’ve grown channels from 1k views a video to 500k+
$100/month to $10,000/month (in months)
Had multiple creators post 5m+ videos DURING the cohorts. Even some 10m+.
Look at the endless testimonials on the site (from real channels you can look up haha)
Applications open today (link below).
Apply and if we think we can grow your channel, I’ll reach out personally.
Only about 10% of applications get into the program. We prioritize student results over everything.
It's not affordable for everyone, so I’ll also be giving away a free scholarship (funded by me)!
Just RT and like this post and I’ll pick a winner on Monday.
Can’t wait to see the next group of creators go through our program and dominate 2027. ❤️
Dylan Abruscato on Building TBPN as "CNBC for Our Generation"
"We assume that everyone that's listening knows the acronyms that we're talking about."
Dylan Abruscato explained on a recent discussion how TBPN differentiates itself from traditional business media through its unapologetically niche approach.
Unlike Fox Business or CNBC, which carefully explain industry terminology for general audiences, TBPN's hosts Jon and Jordi simply use terms like "AWS" without clarification—no "Amazon Web Services, the parent company of Amazon" hand-holding.
This wasn't an oversight. It was a deliberate strategy.
"I think there's a huge power in building for a super niche community," Abruscato noted. By refusing to dumb down the content, TBPN created what he calls an "insider look at tech with this ESPN style".
The approach resonated. "It really resonated with folks in the industry," Abruscato said, building what he described as "small, by mass media standards, but incredibly powerful group of a couple hundred thousand people."
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Mark Zuckerberg: “I don’t think that we need some kind of industry-wide coordination... I think that just each lab needs to take the time, and when it sees that there are issues, you just take the time that you need internally to make sure that you’re proceeding safely…
“we’re entering a phase where trust and alignment is actually going to be the most important next set of capabilities. I think we’re getting to a point where it may not matter that much how much better it gets at math.
“I happen to think that there’s plenty of commercial incentive to get this right.
We delayed the launch of Muse for a few months because we wanted it to be a better product for users. This was not a sacrifice on our part, but rather the right decision for the users and for Meta. I believe this approach would also be correct for other companies working on developing this technology.
“When you hear people in the industry talk about some trade-off between capabilities and getting it aligned, I just disagree with that. I believe that alignment is actually the next most important ability to master if we are going to make this system useful to many people.”
The Simple Decision Matrix That Drives TBPN
"If it makes us laugh, and if it's something we would've wanted to watch, we'll do it."
Dylan Abruscato explained on Emily Sundberg's podcast how TBPN approaches content decisions with a remarkably simple framework. Rather than complex editorial strategies or market research, the team relies on an intuitive filter that keeps them focused on what actually matters.
The show emerged from a genuine gap Abruscato and his co-founders identified in the market. "We're really just building the show that we've always wanted to watch," he said, describing how they saw themselves as "obsessive former founders" who viewed their guests like athletes.
"The conversations that Jon and Jordi are having live" are identical to what the team discussed "in our group chats before launching TBPN," Abruscato noted. This authenticity stems from their core philosophy: "The best results always come from building for yourself."
Emily Sundberg pushed back on whether fun alone could sustain success, especially post-deal. She observed that "you can have all the money in the world and all the recognizable last names in the world on your project, and you can have the best distribution," but argued that "it's really hard to compete with people having more fun than you."
This wasn't theoretical for either of them. Sundberg identified fun as "a big part of her business" and "a huge part of your business," crediting it as a foundation for their professional relationship.
Abruscato's approach reflects a broader truth about creative work: complexity in decision-making often obscures rather than clarifies.
Dylan Abruscato on the Future of Interactive Entertainment
"The reason that I left TV to join HQ was not for HQ Trivia the show, it was for this grand vision of a live interactive TV network."
@DylanAbruscato explained, describing how he saw beyond the viral game show to a fundamental transformation of how audiences would consume content.
His bet wasn't on a single hit—it was on an entire medium shift.
Dylan's vision was simple but ambitious: take proven TV formats and rebuild them as live, mobile, interactive experiences. HQ Trivia had demonstrated the model by transforming the traditional game show. But that was just the beginning.
"In the same way that HQ took a TV game show and made it live and mobile and interactive, the same could happen should have been said for a Shark Tank format or a talent competition or a dating show or a late night show," he explained.
He put this theory into practice with Krypto, which he described as "my attempt at building a live interactive Survivor—essentially just the game I always wanted to play online with my friends."
But Dylan wasn't just building products—he was articulating a thesis about the future of entertainment.
"I still truly believe that every traditional TV format has a place as an interactive internet native show," he said.
The key insight is generational.
"There's a whole generation of consumers that watch TV on the internet, and so they should be built by internet native founders," Dylan noted. He's actively thinking about who will build "the TBPN for cooking" or "the TBPN for late night."
The combination creates opportunities for founders willing to rebuild what already works for an audience that expects participation, not just consumption.