Max Beauroyre

If you were magically given 10,000 hours to be amazing at something, what would it be? The more clarity you have on this response, the better off you’ll be.

Put differently, the long-term product and economic impacts of having everything operating on the same plane outweighs the short-term impact of replacing hardware.

To be agentic, you have to really look at the problem and at the solution space and accept the responsibility of learning what is necessary to make the problem go away.

More recently I’ve kept repeating to myself, don’t abandon your vision . Decisiveness is knowing myself well enough to take the plunge, then the rest is all faith.

An alternative would be to steadily build an audience interested in your product and to ungate the waitlist in batches. Building an audience is increasingly achievable through social media along with owned channels like newsletters. Unlike PR, these channels are person-centric rather than brand-centric; they require personality and authenticity in ... See more

"Seeing is Believing as a Potential Entrepreneur" -

@davidcummings

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I credit a lot of my self-belief with having worked in startups before making the jump to my own.

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Direct exposure to other founders/operators dispels the myths of going from 0 to 1 or 1 to 10.

We live in a culture that venerates productivity above all else. For centuries, success—particularly in the West—has hinged on a simple dictum: “Do more, faster.”

Wouldn’t it be great if you could pay $9.99 a month and read all of the books you want? Just like you get all the movies you want from Netflix? Or all the music you want from Spotify?

Technically, it does exist. Kindle Unlimited is the largest, followed by Scribd. Audible isn’t quite all-access, but then Spotify got into audiobooks and made them so.... See more

Over time, all marketing strategies result in shitty clickthrough rates.