Max Beauroyre

What holds you back is rarely team size – it's the clarity of your focus, skill and ability to execute. Larger teams mean slower progress, more management overhead, more meetings, more opinions, and usually dilution of vision and standards. Yet growing the team has somehow become a symbol of success.

This suggests that how people fare psychologically with their post-AGI unemployment will depend heavily on how they use their time, not how much of it there is—there is a path to positive well-being, if people spend time exercising, playing with their kids, spending time with friends, and so on

As we rely on same agents trained on overlapping data, we will see the emergence of an efficient market theory of venture capital—a troubling prospect for an industry built on information asymmetry.

It’s extremely difficult these days for young people to become homeowners. If you have extremely strict zoning laws and restrictions on building more housing, it’s good for the boomers, whose properties keep going up in value, and terrible for the millennials. If you proletarianize the young people, you shouldn’t be surprised if they eventually... See more

Write out your reasoning. Like Bezos, Huang reasons with writing, not spreadsheets. While he trusts his intuition to guide him toward a potential decision, to reach confidence, he or his team must reason through it. Spreadsheets are ill-equipped for the kind of thinking Huang values here. “I hate spreadsheets because you can make spreadsheets do... See more

I’d argue that we now live in a world where it’s not just easier to get ramen profitable, but traditionally profitable – while also growing fast.

PostHog was created because we believed that product analytics was broken, and we had a vision of how it could be much better.

We need to reflect this vision in our marketing and content, and not dilute it with boring corporate-speak. When we write content, we take a firm stance on what we believe is right. We would rather have 50% of people love... See more

develop your personal opportunity assessment framework. rather than evaluating opportunities by conventional metrics (stability, prestige, immediate compensation), create personalized criteria aligned with your deepest values and long-term vision.