Co-Founder/CEO @ComeTogetherNFT Rather than love than money than fame give me truth. Time for #btc #DeFi #web3.
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Lazaros Penteridis retweeted
Marc Andreessen revealed how Harvard Business School was built on a broken 1941 theory, and how it's now collapsing...
Andreessen co-founded Netscape in 1994 and a16z in 2009.
He has sat on Meta's board since 2008.
He has spent 30 years backing founders and watching managerial CEOs lose to them.
The pattern traces back to one book: James Burnham's The Machiavellians (1941).
Burnham argued every great company had been founder-run.
Henry Ford ran Ford. Bob Noyce ran Intel.
Today, Elon Musk runs Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink.
Then, he said, something broke.
Between the 1880s and the 1920s, a new philosophy replaced the founder. It was called managerialism.
The professional manager would now hold a portable skill, usable across any business.
The consequences were:
- Harvard Business School
- Stanford Business School
- Management as a universal skill
- The 1970s conglomerate
"That assumes the managers are going to do a good job," Andreessen says.
For 30 years, they haven't.
Managers can run something static, he says. Soup is soup. A bank is a bank. A car is a car.
But when the industry changes, the manager freezes.
Look at SpaceX.
"Imagine being a professionally trained manager, trained at a top management school, working for a rocket launch company, competing with SpaceX."
Then Elon's rockets started landing on their butt.
"Your management skills ... what good are they at that point?"
Andreessen's conclusion:
"You're much more likely to build something important in the 21st century if you start with the founder and train them on management."
We’re making an important hire at ComeTogether.
Until now, most of our business development has been founder-led. We’re now looking for the person who can help turn that into a real sales function.
We’re hiring our first Senior Business Development Manager in Athens.
You’ll own a part of the Greek market end to end: find the organisers, get the meeting, run the demo, send the proposal, close the deal and help us build the sales team that comes next.
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Lazaros Penteridis retweeted
Ελπίζω να το δει αυτό και κάποιος Έλληνας founder - όσο περισσότεροι τόσο καλύτερα. Μακρυά απ’ τη σαχλαμάρα του Linkedin
Lazaros Penteridis retweeted
🌸 THIS is not Japan…
This is 🇬🇷 Greece right now.
Thousands are flocking to witness the breathtaking peach blossom fields of Imathia — where entire landscapes turn pink for a few magical weeks.
It feels unreal. Like walking inside a dream.
📍 Northern Greece
📸 Peak bloom: happening NOW
Would you visit this place?
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Lazaros Penteridis retweeted
"AI is trained on your data"... this is not the real risk. It's a red herring, manufactured as The Concern because who cares that much.
The real risk to you is not that tomorrow's model is trained on your data.
The real risk is that ten thousand employees, hackers, and governments can access all your most personal and proprietary conversations today and forever.
Privacy must be the default or humanity is seriously fucked.
Lazaros Penteridis retweeted
I'm going to make some obvious points.
(1) Blowing up all the oil infrastructure in the Middle East is an insane idea, and may well result in a global economic crash and humanitarian crisis unrivaled in the lives of those now living. We're talking about the price of everything everywhere rising, from food to gas, at a moment when inflation was already high. All of that will be laid at the feet of the authors of this war.
(2) The antebellum status quo of Feb 27, 2026 was just not that bad, but we're unlikely to return to it. Expect indefinite, long-term, ongoing disruptions to everything out of the Middle East.
(3) Also assume tech financing crashes for the indefinite future. The genius plan to get the Gulf states caught in the crossfire has incinerated much of the funding for LPs, for datacenters, and for IPOs. Anyone in tech who supported this war may soon learn the meaning of "force majeure" as funding gets yanked.
(4) Many capital allocators will instead be allocating much further down Maslow's hierarchy of needs, towards useful basic things like food and energy.
(5) It's fortunate that all those progressives yelled about the "climate crisis." Yes, their reasoning about timelines was wrong, and much of the money was wasted in graft, but the result was right: we all need energy independence from the Middle East, pronto. It's also fortunate that Elon and China autistically took climate seriously. Now they're going to need to ship a billion solar panels, electric vehicles, batteries, nuclear power plants, and the like to get everyone off oil, immediately.
(6) It's not just an oil and gas problem, of course. It's also a fertilizer problem, and a chemical precursor problem. Maybe some new sources will come online at the new prices, but it takes time to dial stuff up, particularly at this scale, so shortages are almost a certainty.
That said, China has actually scaled up coal-to-chemicals[a,c] (C2C), and there's also something more sci-fi called Power-to-X[b] which turns arbitrary power + water + air into hydrocarbons. But all of that will need to get accelerated. I have a background in chemical engineering so may start funding things in this area.
(7) Ultimately, this war is going to result in tremendous blame for anyone associated with it. It's a no-win scenario to blow up this much infrastructure for so many people. Simply not worth it for whatever objective they thought they were going to attain. But unless you're actually in a position to stop the madness, the pragmatic thing to do is: scramble to mitigate the fallout to yourself, your business, and your people.
[a]: reuters.com/business/energy/…
[b]: alfalaval.com/industries/ene…
[c]: reuters.com/sustainability/c…
Lazaros Penteridis retweeted
Join our CEO, @lazer_5 on Wednesday, 28 January online from 13:00-14:00, for this week’s Key Wednesday networking organized by the European Innovation Hub for Digital Governance GR @digiGOVinnoHUB
Lazaros Penteridis retweeted
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Lazaros Penteridis retweeted
Andrew Huberman shares a game-changer from a top psychoanalyst: "It's all internal." Finish a marathon first? No one drips dopamine in your ear—you generate it yourself.
Set milestones just beyond comfort, hit them, pause to register the win → dopamine surges, converts to epinephrine/adrenaline, fuels the next push.
Success isn't external validation; it's engineering your own reward circuit—one deliberate win at a time creates unstoppable momentum.
What's a recent milestone you registered internally that gave you that energy surge? Share it.
Lazaros Penteridis retweeted
JACK DORSEY'S NEW APP IS A PROTESTER'S SECRET WEAPON
Bitchat doesn’t need Wi-Fi, mobile data, or even a working government.
Messages bounce phone-to-phone using Bluetooth; no towers, no servers, no kill switch.
It’s ideal for places like Iran, where regimes love blackouts and protesters need a way to talk when the internet “suddenly disappears.”
No logins. No SIM cards. No surveillance.
Source: @CatiaKyen
Lazaros Penteridis retweeted
Socialism is the fantasy that you can live off producers while simultaneously waging war on production itself.
It openly concedes that producers are necessary yet treats them as morally illegitimate.
Their success is framed as exploitation, their independence as a threat, and their productivity as something to be seized, regulated, or punished rather than respected.
This is the core contradiction at the heart of socialism: it admits the producer is essential while denying the producer the right to exist as an end in himself. He is reduced to a means, a resource to be managed for others, not a human being with a moral claim to the product of his own effort.
That is why socialism fails long before the economic consequences arrive. The collapse begins at the moral level.
Once production is treated as a sin and independence as a crime, destruction isn’t an accident. It’s the logical outcome.
Lazaros Penteridis retweeted
ELON: TRUTH IS THE ONLY REAL SAFETY MECHANISM FOR AI
Safety doesn’t come from guardrails stacked on top of bad logic.
It comes from forcing the system to care about what’s actually true.
“My number one belief for the safety of AI is to be maximally truth-seeking.
Don’t make AI believe things that are false.
If you tell the AI that Axiom A and Axiom B are both true, but they can’t both be true, then that’s a problem.
It has to recognize that and behave accordingly.”
Source: DOW
Lazaros Penteridis retweeted
New podcast on recruiting (full episode). Links below.
Curate People
0:00 The Best Only Want to Work With the Best
3:49 You'll Never Be Able to Hire Anybody Better Than You
6:45 Break Every Rule to Get the Best People
10:19 It Just Takes a Small Group of People to Create Something Great
14:56 Find Undiscovered Talent Before Everyone Else
19:04 Great People Have Taste in Other People
21:24 Every Great Engineer Is Also an Artist
25:34 Early Teams Look Like Cults
27:59 You Can’t Make a Product that is Simple Enough
30:37 The Founder’s Personality Is the Company
34:45 Good Teams Throw Away Far More Product Than They Keep
38:41 All New Information Starts as Misinformation
40:47 Geniuses Only
44:24 Practice Your Craft At the Edge of Your Capability
49:14 Curate People