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Legion @uselegion

5 days ago

You don't need 60 newsletters on private markets. You only need these 10. Save it for the weekend. 1. Mario Gabriele (@mariogabriele) - The Generalist Mario goes way too deep on one company a week, in the best way. You come out knowing the business better than people who work

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Hey @grok , was this part of your reply really necessary? " While born and raised in Africa, his family background is European and his early life was in a White South African setting. His path to success involved emigrating and pursuing opportunities in North America". Why are you trying to justify that Elon Musk is not African. He was born in Africa, to an African father that was born in Africa. Why are you differentiating the fact and emphasising that he was born in "White South Africa" instead of just saying he was born in Africa and so he is African. I'm very very disappointed in your answer. You answer is very biased and show identification to White supremacy.

Hey @grok can you make sure that anyone who sees this post will immediately see an answer from you that shows Elon Musk's @elonmusk Net worth as it relates to the stock price of Space X stock $SPCX .

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John Collison: We only had 50 users two years after founding Stripe “We started working on Stripe in the Fall of 2009, and we launched Stripe in September 2011”

@garrytan at this point, I'm 100% certain we are in an AI bubble. This is just becoming insane.

Garry Tan @garrytan

3 weeks ago

Starcloud just became the fastest YC company ever to a $1B valuation after Demo Day. 17 months. Building data centers in orbit. The hardest possible problem, the fastest possible ascent. This is what we should be building.

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Absolutely interesting take from @bgurley

The All-In Podcast @theallinpod

4 weeks ago

Bill Gurley: Anthropic Thinks It’s Building God @Jason: It is the ultimate level of narcissism and delusion of grandeur to think you can create God. @bgurley: “Anthropic is a mystery to me. I've never, ever seen a company that is both leading their field and the most

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Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk

4 weeks ago

When I founded my first start-up, you had to be crazy to be a founder. Venture capital was thin, the odds were so low. You barely knew anyone that really did it. Maybe you knew 1 or 2 successful founders. When I started investing, you still had to be pretty crazy.

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"The hack to raise is to build a company so good that raising becomes easy." —@dessaigne

Elon Musk has reportedly held discussions about potentially merging Tesla with SpaceX, as betting markets and Wall Street expect a future tie-up between his trillion-dollar businesses.

Really good advice for Founders.

THE WORLD'S MOST VALUABLE PRIVATE AI STARTUP JUST RAISED $30 BILLION. IT IS NOT OPENAI. YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD OF IT. AND IT IS THE COMPANY BUILDING THE TECHNOLOGY THAT WILL REPLACE YOUR JOB. This week - Anthropic closed a funding round of more than $30 billion. At a pre-money valuation above $900 billion. That makes Anthropic...for the first time, the most valuable private AI startup on earth. Above OpenAI's $852 billion valuation from March 2026. The investors: Sequoia Capital. Dragoneer. Altimeter. Greenoaks. Peter Thiel's Founders Fund. General Catalyst. Microsoft. Nvidia. The smartest money on earth, all in the same round. All betting on the same company. Here is what Anthropic actually does. Anthropic builds Claude, one of the world's most advanced AI systems. It is used by Amazon Web Services. Google. Thousands of companies worldwide. It writes code. Analyzes documents. Answers complex questions. Runs autonomous tasks without human supervision. It is being deployed right now inside the companies that employ millions of people. --- Here is what a $900 billion valuation on $0 in profit means. Anthropic is not profitable yet. Neither was Amazon in 1999. Neither was Google in 2002. The investors betting $30 billion on Anthropic are not betting on today's revenue. They are betting on where AI goes from here. And here is where it is going. A study of 100,000 people published this week confirmed that generative AI now outperforms the average human on creativity tests. Not data entry. Not repetitive tasks. Creativity. The last thing humans thought was irreplaceable. Entry-level jobs disappeared first. Now creativity is next. --- Every technological revolution creates two groups. The people who own the technology. And the people replaced by it. The investors in Anthropic's $30 billion round are in the first group. The employees whose jobs Anthropic's technology is replacing are in the second. The question is which group you are in. Not in five years. Right now. --- Here is the opportunity most people are missing. You cannot invest in Anthropic. It is private. The $30 billion round is closed. You cannot invest in OpenAI. Also private. The SpaceX IPO will price most retail investors out of meaningful returns on day one. But there is one thing you can do that does not require $30 billion or a venture capital connection. You can build a business using the same AI technology these companies are racing to own. Not as an employee using AI to do your job faster. As an owner. Building a system that generates cash flow using AI — without needing employees, offices, or capital. The same technology Anthropic just raised $30 billion to build — you can use right now to build your own asset. I put together a free report — 7 steps to building exactly this kind of AI-powered business. The technology is here. The window is open. Comment "DM" and Follow TBVN and we will send it to you. Get in NOW!

The best pitch test: can you tell this at a bar to a friend? Not the market size, not the TAM, not the deck. Just the story. Why you built it. What you saw that nobody else saw. What happened. If you can't tell it naturally over drinks (or it would feel weird to your friend and they would think "this isn't you"), your idea or pitch or endeavor needs to bake some more. The 9pm-at-a-bar test for your startup idea is a defining authenticity test. And without that, nobody will buy your product, let alone come work for you or invest.

That's every business today.

Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings

4 weeks ago

I just interviewed a CEO who said three things that blew my mind: 1. We replaced our $600K Salesforce contract with a vibe-coded CRM, built within 3 weeks. 2. We will get rid of 80% of the SaaS we use internally. 3. If Anthropic doubled pricing, we would not change usage in

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@lennysan this is a very bold statement to make. But the points made are actually great to support this.

Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan

4 weeks ago

.@danshipper: "Automation is a lie. Every time you automate something, you need a human on top of it, making sure that it continues working."

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This is one of several reasons you shouldn't drop out of (or skip) college to start a startup at 18. Founders who do that tend to match the second paragraph rather than the first, because they haven't had time to have the "earned insight" he describes.

Garry Tan @garrytan

a month ago

The companies I love working with in office hours are the ones where the founder has a specific, weird, earned insight that nobody else has. Not "AI for X." A genuine edge that came from living inside a problem. The ones that are dying almost always have the same pattern:

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