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"If I stay in bed for 4 days...I quit"
Dude, you haven't seen I pop out of the bed all the time. I never lay in bed when the alarm goes off. Never.Actually, I have a rule. If I lay in bed four days in a row, which has happened, I quit the job. That's when I know I have to quit.I call the CEO up and I quit. Something's wrong. Cuz usually, as soon as that alarm goes off, there's 10 things in my head. My feet hit the floor and there's now 15 things in my head.>> Were you always like that. >> Yeah. >> Yeah.That's why we were different, my friend. >> ...
The #1 Skill in Sales 💰
What do you know now that you wish you had known when you started. >> I'm going to go back to listening. Like I had to learn how to be a great listener.And I think that is the number one skill of a leader, number one skill of a recruiter, number one skill of a salesperson is really learning how to listen. A lot of times, as an example, if we tell stories, if somebody wants me to help them out with their companies, they say, "What's the best way to enter and understand the salesforce? Invite me to a QBR wher ...
How HARD should you push your team?
I do not think you can push your team too hard. I think you should push them as hard as the business needs to go. And if they leave, it's great.It's terrific because they're not going to get you there. And maybe that's what Sam's doing. There is complacency is set in.Everyone's getting to sell 20 million at a time. Turnover is high and it worked for a while and now the competition is up and I maybe he's talking to 20 people and he's saying, "I need you guys to go even harder and maybe half will leave and ha ...
Nvidia is cheaper than Costco
Company Strategy & Performance Expectations - The company should aggressively push its team to meet business needs, even if it leads to employee turnover [1] - The company has the potential to become the next Google within 18-24 months [1] - The company's success could eliminate the need for startups due to its superior performance [1] Market Dynamics & Competition - Nvidia's PE ratio is lower than Costco's [1] - The "Mag 7" (Magnificent Seven) tech companies are extracting a significant portion of global profits [1]
Everything you need to know about the Budget...
So Rachel Reeves budget, everything you need to know in 60 seconds. Honestly, it is all small business consumption tax changes which will be implemented between 2027 and 2030. Honestly, it's window dressing. It's rearranging the debt chairs on the Titanic. A failure to tackle anything material like social welfare costs, triple lock, energy costs, immigration, refugee costs, defense spending. The policies and tax changes just don't meet a materiality threshold. A billion here and a billion there in the conte ...
Biggest tech news you cannot miss this week!
Here are the biggest tech and AI stories that you cannot miss this week. So, number one, Anthropic just secured up to $15 billion from Microsoft and Nvidia, pushing the company to a $350 billion valuation. Microsoft committed over $30 billion in Azure compute.The clearest sign yet. AI Infra is the new oil. But Sam Alman says, "Rough vibes come because Google trained Gemini 3 fully on TPUs and Elon's XAI is building its own X1 chip." So now the big question, does everyone have to have a play in the chip game ...
In two years __% of code will written be AI
I had Mark Beni off. I had Vlad Tenev from Robin Hood on the show. They said 50% of their code is written with AI.What will that be in two years. >> 95% or 100% for sure. You'll be prompting agents.I think for us, B 44 was built in the age of LLM. And so I structured the repository in a way that's going to be very easy for LLMs to navigate through and to read the code. I think for us it's already closer to 90%. ...
Will Google win the AI Race?
Who do you think's more likely to do that, Codeex or Claw Code. >> Google by far. They have the compute.They're moving very fast. If Gemini at some point wins the race, like literally wins the race, then they have the entire stack including like Google Cloud and whatever whatever they need and they have the data and whatever and integrations and and Google Suite and so on to build an incredible empire. I'm hoping for a tough race and it looks like that right. ...
The $80M One Man Startup
From all things in the industry, I think the margins are the least thing that I'm worried about. >> Base 44 is the story of one entrepreneur who went from an idea to millions in revenue and selling to Wix for $80 million. Today, Mayor joins me in the hot seat.>> We're taking into consideration that prices of model will go down towards zero. Me personally, I don't believe we'll hit a speed bump. I don't think Elsa will hit the wall with like movements of LM.Even with existing models, we're only scratching th ...
Base44’s Founder, Maor Shlomo on Why Vibe Coding Has No Defensibility
Maor Shlomo is the Founder and CEO of Base44, the AI building platform that Maor built from idea to $80M acquisition by Wix, in just 8 months. Today the company serves millions of users and will hit $50M ARR by the end of the year. Before Base44, Maor was the Co-Founder and CTO of Explorium. ----------------------------------------------- Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:13 The Decision Behind Selling Base44 11:56 How Base44 Thinks About Defensibility 16:37 Mapping the Future of the Market in 3–5 Years 23:18 I’m ...