National Party candidate for the Tāmaki electorate | OG @ Canva | AKL & NZ always | Subscribe for deep dives: https://nitter.cf/t.co/yqrqb4i89D
Auckland, New Zealand
Joined March 2009
- Tweets832
- Following1.4K
- Followers767
- Likes651
Thanks for bringing this up to my attention @davidbooth . @matthewclifford good on you.
This is what I think about all the time ... but for NZ.
The UK is a great country with an extraordinary history. Our stagnation is real, but it's fixable and worth fixing.
Enjoyed giving this talk at @lfg_uk last week and so encouraged by the optimistic responses I've had from people who are building a brilliant future for Britain 🚀
1
3
1,198
Wonderful to see @canva keep winning. Proud to have been part of the early journey. Congrats to everyone who’s contributed to the success so far. 👏 to OG Aussie startup pioneers @liubinskas and @philmorle, for the groundwork for Aus startupland.
pollenizer.com/2017/04/02/th…
Imagine when you can build simple tools and automation through natural language.
Things start to move way faster…
"We are entering a new era of coding."
Nobel Prize Winner and @GoogleDeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on coding with natural language.
1
226
The AI revolution is probably going to take a decade to cement. New Zealand has a fantastic opportunity to take advantage of this on many levels. Education for one - our high schoolers and Uni students should have the opportunity to be the most AI savvy in the world. Let’s do it.
2
141
💡 The most underrated hiring strategy? Incentive alignment over skillset.
Most hiring managers get it wrong. They hire for "experience" when they should be optimising for aligned incentives.
Let’s break this down 🧵👇
1
1
143
A fantastic podcast by @dwarkesh_sp with @satyanadella CEO of @Microsoft . Many times in the chat they paint the future. “People will think with AI and collaborate with their team”.
“Jobs will be lost but … many more opportunities will be created”. Watch.
youtu.be/4GLSzuYXh6w?si=m-oq…
81
A fantastic breakdown of the level of investment that is occurring into AI infrastructure. This is to deliver more and more utility. It’s unreal.
@dylan522p @lexfridman great stuff.
youtu.be/WY36mAUumDg?si=Wh1M…
105
🚀 The 3 Swimlanes of Startups – Which one are you playing in?
Not all founders are building the same type of company. Understanding your personal ambition + venture strategy is key.
A framework for aligning ambition, investors, and execution 🧵👇
1
1
101
New Zealand entrepreneurs - let do this. Come on!
MY MIND HAS JUST BEEN BOGGLED.
I just tried the early release of OpenAI's new DeepResearch feature (rolling out later today to the $200/month Pro users).
I've been working in the CRM software industry for 30+ years.
It's not just that I've had court-side seats to the game, I've been on the court, doing my best to play the game. First in vertical CRM (my first startup) and now as co-founder of HubSpot. I've had some modest success and I feel like I have a pretty good handle on things in the industry.
That's why OpenAI's new DeepResearch feature boggled my mind.
I asked it create a detailed research report including competitive analysis, positioning, growth, product strategy and AI vision for the industry.
What it produced was an 11,000 word report. With data. And citations. And tables. And genuinely great insights -- including some I hadn't really thought of before.
What has me excited is not just that it can produce this kind of output (though that's pretty cool). What has me excited is that we'll be able to use this kind of output as *input* to a subsequent step in an agentic workflow.
Because the future is about agent composability. Being able to pull together pieces and put them together into a larger whole. The same way we build teams to work together to tackle higher order missions and goals.
This has been what I've been dreaming about for years. It's finally starting to happen.
We are seeing more and more of the future -- and it's happening quickly.
DISCLOSURE: I'm a small investor in OpenAI, and also a big fan.
1
96
@sama and @OpenAI keep shipping fast. They are doing a phenomenal job of "this is the future". With this OpenAI Operator preview - they present a world which is API lite. You'd be able to get so much more done, so much faster.
youtube.com/watch?v=CSE77wAd…
53
3 years ago - it was just the founders. We’d catch up weekly. Mates would needle me about ‘spending time with these kids’. I’d say - you could be working for their startups one day.
Here is to #phaseone. Go Kiwi go.
Jobs: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
2
89
Three awesome gigs in startupland_NZ.
1) Generalist @itsnextwork - early stage startup.
2) CEO @MnstryofAwsm - make an indelible impact on startup_NZ
3) EA/Operations for a fellow global venture firm.
More details here! docs.google.com/document/d/1…
So excited that @chrisluxonmp has called out growth as the #1 priority. Really excited that @NicolaWillisMP is on this. We are a country of incredible entrepreneurs. Even more of our entrepreneurs have to hit a global market. Excited to help accelerate this even more!
1
59
100%.
In two years - things are going to change A Lot.
Growth across so many dimensions will 📈.
I had a feeling of deja vu waiting for an overloaded ChatGPT to answer me. It was just like waiting for web pages to load in 1996. This is what the future feels like, when the new thing can barely keep up with demand, but people want it so much they endure the delays.
1
81
Artificial intelligence will be all pervasive.
Like electricity, as Sam Altman suggests - like transistors.
It will move from point based solutions to system wide solutions.
We don’t talk about electricity ventures or transistor ventures.
We won’t talk about “AI startups” soon.
1
3
145
If you are building a new tech venture you use the latest tech available and currently that is AI.
Startups, ventures and founders win when they are obsessed about the customer, the problem, the market, hit a global market, they are clear about their personal goals, why they want to achieve it and have grit.
To build and showcase obsession - takes at least 18 months of customer discovery (not build) and a sincere grappling of their personal why.
1
3
84
