Max Beauroyre
@maxbeauroyre
Max Beauroyre
Finance is the nervous system of the company. Everything that a business does flows through finance in some way, and no department has a better bird’s-eye view into how the company operates.
Ramp and the AI Opportunity
A viral video on Instagram travels further than a cable hit could. Mamdani doesn’t need anyone—not CNN, not Democracy Now!, and not us. He just needs an iPhone and a Wi-Fi connection. Instead of chasing a Good Morning America slot, he spent the home stretch of the campaign in clubs—a clear sign he knows his audience: Gen Z, the backbone of his... See more
Bad markets are the reason many great products and teams never find PMF. A declining or non-existent market will kill you no matter how good your execution is.
Andrew Rea • What I'm building next
The brain of man conserves programming space by being reluctant to change, which is a form of inconsistency avoidance. We see this in all human habits, constructive and destructive. Few people can list a lot of bad habits that they have eliminated, and some people cannot identify even one of these. Instead, practically everyone has a great many bad
... See moreUncertainty gives room for agency and the conviction that our actions hold significance. Harnessing uncertainty allows us to consider multiple sides of a question, to find not merely the first solution, but the best one.
It should concern you if you have never failed at something. You should fail badly, relatively often. Otherwise, you are playing it too safe.
I’ve always believed the best early-stage founders are artists – they're obsessive about new and unusual things, they feel compelled to bring creation into the world, and they are often misunderstood for long periods of time–even lifetimes. Building businesses is their art.
Asylum Ventures
You escape competition. By choosing tiny markets, Nvidia avoided competing head-on with peers like ATI and better-funded incumbents like Intel. None of Huang’s rivals were willing to make what looked like an irrational bet on scientific computing, and as a result, he had the opportunity to himself. For Huang, it was strategically preferable to... See more
be generous with knowledge while protective of time and attention.