Max Beauroyre

“There is a natural human tendency to make the next step an upward one. He ends up falling for a common trap highlighted by behavioral economists: people tend to systematically overvalue near term over long term rewards. This effect seems to be even stronger in more ambitious people. Their ambition seems to make it hard for them to forgo the nearby... See more

By 2026, Google and OpenAI will have effectively cloned Perplexity’s core feature (Deep Research) and given it away for free.

It was the first time Johanna and I had lived together, so we spent much time talking about how to go about our lives.

Wages for typical American workers have never been higher. According to our calculations, after adjusting for inflation, the wages of nonsupervisory workers—roughly the bottom 80 percent of workers by pay, including manufacturing workers and service-sector workers who are not managers—have grown by around 60 percent over the past two generations.... See more

Everything can be learned, everything can be understood and reshaped to fit our values.

“My theory is that chasing things that scale makes you need therapy, and the therapy is pursuing things that can’t scale. The antidote to burnout and the existential inquiry it brings seems to be doing things that don’t scale in pursuit of things that can’t scale. It becomes exciting not to see what you can do without limits, but to see what you... See more

If you asked people in your company, “What is the function that fundamentally matters the most to the company?” would all of them answer in the same way?

Crucially, because Meter is vertically integrated, customers can spend 3-4x as much with Meter as they would with legacy vendors . There are a number of reasons for this:

• Meter sells customers more parts of the stack than a traditional vendor would, so they keep more of the value.


• It can increase margins by cutting out layers up and down the stack.


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