Sam Altman's executive coach has never seen a venture-backed startup fail for lack of effort. He says the problem is usually something else.
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Activision offered Tony Hawk $500,000 to give up his video game royalties. He turned it down, and it was the best deal he ever made.
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The editor of Colossus on how he picks profile subjects, and what writing about Zuckerberg and Palmer Luckey taught him about ambition.
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IM8 hit $100 million in yearly sales 11 months after launch. AG1 took 10 years. Danny Yeung on building a brand with David Beckham.
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Speechify bought its own GPUs because engineers renting compute were afraid to use it. Cliff Weitzman compares it to Michael Jordan's backyard hoop.
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Brian Chesky couldn't code when he arrived in Silicon Valley. Now he's rebuilding Airbnb as an AI app and explains why agents beat chatbots.
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Before Sea made money on games, a new engineer spent his days driving prepaid cards to every internet cafe in Singapore.
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At his first startup, Luca Ferrari's best engineer did 10 times the median's work and was one of the least experienced people there. Bending Spoons hires for that.
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Today's chatbots write one word at a time. Stanford's Stefano Ermon is betting the next generation writes them all at once.
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US power demand grew about 2% a year for two decades. Zach Dell expects it to approach 10%, and he's putting batteries in homes to meet it.
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Peter Rahal sold RXBAR for $600 million, got bored investing, and came back with David Protein. Here is what he does differently the second time.
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ElevenLabs started because Polish TV still dubs every foreign film with one flat voice reading all the parts.
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