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Birkenstock IPO’d today at a ~$8B valuation. Its CEO Oliver Reichert did a massive turnaround in the past decade: sales 5x’d from $125m in 2012 to $1.3B in 2022. The wildest part: he has zero background in footwear or fashion. Prior to taking over the top job... See more

90% of Claude’s code is now written by AI, and this has completely transformed how they build products. The bottlenecks have shifted from engineering (writing code) to decision-making (what to build) and merge queues (getting code into production). This is happening faster than anyone expected—Mike thinks most companies will reach this point within

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“If you want to get to the truth about what makes us different, it’s this: We are genuinely customer-centric, we are genuinely long-term oriented, and we genuinely like to invent. Most companies are not those things. They are focused on the competitor, rather than the customer. They prefer to be close followers rather than inventors, because it’s... See more