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Garry Tan says AI enables a single markdown file to act like an employee: "If you really want to tokenmax, you have to use something like Hermes Agent or OpenClaw... let me load a million tokens or 800,000 tokens into any given request." "For a CEO or a founder, it actually makes a lot of sense to do that, and you have to give yourself permission to tokenmax in that way. What you get is, you get to live in 2028 today." "You do some feat of strength, and then you turn it into a markdown file plus code plus tests that can be reused and put into a cron job." "A markdown file is an employee. It's an employee that will do the job perfectly every single time, and it'll do it as many times as you want." @garrytan @illscience

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Created the build guide for Gopher Merlion Badge after the receiving the PCB at GopherCon Singapore 2026. #gopherconsg Check out how it looks: instagram.com/p/DaIDmKGhrc0/ Build Guide: github.com/sylviang/gopherme…

Elon Musk literally sat down for a 45-minute talk with Y Combinator that explains how to build world-changing companies better than any business school on earth. This is the advice he gave a room full of young founders: 1. Don't try to build something great. Try to build something useful. Everyone obsesses over greatness. Musk says that's the wrong target. "I didn't originally think I would build something great. I wanted to try to build something useful. I didn't think I would build anything particularly great. Seemed unlikely, but I wanted to at least try." Aim for useful first. Greatness, if it comes, is a byproduct. 2. When you can't get in the front door, build your own door. Before Musk started his first company, he tried to get a job at Netscape. "I sent my resume into Netscape and nobody responded. I tried hanging out in the lobby to see if I could bump into someone, but I was too shy to talk to anyone. So I'm like, this is ridiculous, I'll just write software myself." He didn't set out to be a founder. He became one because no one would hire him. 3. He slept in the office and showered at the YMCA. The origin of his first company was not glamorous. "We couldn't even afford a place to stay. The office was 500 bucks a month, so we just slept in the office and showered at the YMCA." He couldn't afford proper internet either, so he drilled a hole through the office floor and ran a cable to the internet provider downstairs. That was the founder of the future richest man on earth. 4. Keep the chips on the table. When Musk sold his first company, he received a $20 million cheque. His bank balance went from $10,000 to $20 million overnight. Most people would have stopped. He put almost all of it straight back into his next company. "I kept the chips on the table." He did the same thing decades later, over and over. He hates money sitting idle. Money is fuel for the next mission. 5. Start with the mission, then work backwards to make it a business. Musk didn't start SpaceX to make money. He went on the NASA website to find out when humans were going to Mars, and there was no plan. So he decided to build one. "There had been no prior example of a rocket startup succeeding. A small chance of success is better than no chance of success." The mission came first. The business model came later. 6. He started SpaceX expecting to fail. He is brutally honest about the odds. "SpaceX started in mid-2002 expecting to fail. Probably 90% chance of failing. When recruiting people, I said, we're probably going to die, but small chance we might not die." The first three launches failed. The fourth one worked with no money left. "If the fourth launch hadn't worked, it would have been curtains. We made it by the skin of our teeth." 7. Break every problem down to physics. This is the core of how Musk thinks. "First principles means break things down to the fundamental elements that are most likely to be true, then reason up from there, as opposed to reasoning by analogy." His example is rockets. Everyone priced them based on what old rockets cost. Musk asked what a rocket is actually made of, priced the raw metals, and found the materials were only 1-2% of the historical price. The rest was inefficiency he could attack. 8. When told something takes 24 months, break it down and do it in six. Last year xAI needed a giant computer to train its AI. Suppliers said it would take 18 to 24 months. "It's like, well, we need to get that done in six months or we won't be competitive." So he broke it into parts. Needed a building, so he found an old factory. Needed power, so he rented generators. Needed cooling, so he rented a quarter of America's mobile cooling capacity. He slept in the data centre and ran cabling himself. It got done. 9. Watch your ego-to-ability ratio. Musk's single sharpest piece of advice for young founders is about staying honest with yourself. "A major failure mode is when your ego-to-ability ratio gets too high. Then you break the feedback loop to reality." Keep the ego small, internalise responsibility for everything, and stay ruthlessly connected to what's actually true. "You want to close the loop on reality hard. That's a super big deal." 10. Chase work, not glory. His closing philosophy ties it all together. "It's so hard to be useful. The area under the curve of total utility is how useful you've been to your fellow human beings times how many people. If you aspire to do true work, your probability of success is much higher. Don't aspire to glory, aspire to work." He was ridiculed for years. The press called him "internet guy attempting to build a rocket company." He agreed it sounded absurd. He did it anyway, because a small chance of doing something useful beat no chance at all. Here's the thing though.... 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We can all agree subscriptions are great for consistent, repeatable revenue. But they’re not a one-size-fits-all. They don't always meet users across the demand curve: 🪜 Power users hit limits → they’d pay more, but can’t 🎢 Casual users won’t commit → they churn, or never convert What’s the solution? @thomasbcn explains 🧵

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Your job isn’t to carry the whole business. It’s to empower people who can carry it with you.

high IQ is a poverty trap. let me explain. recently talked to a guy with 172 IQ. reads philosophy. understands complex systems better than most MBAs. completely broke. spends every day researching. perfecting ideas. waiting for the "right moment" to execute. scanning "best saas ideas" blogs. been "building in stealth" for 3 years. where it gets uncomfortable. couple months ago i took one of his half-finished concepts he mentioned in passing. packaged it with maximum conviction. sold it as an info product to women wanting to build careers in real estate. $12k/month in 90 days. product was average. idea wasn't revolutionary. i moved fast and marketed ugly. he's still perfecting version 1.0 while i'm cashing deposits from version 0.3 i built in a weekend. the psychology is brutal: intelligence creates options. options create paralysis. paralysis creates poverty. smart people see 47 ways something could fail. so they "research more." average people see one path forward and sprint. a gorgeous idea in the hands of someone who overthinks becomes a mental prison. a mid idea in the hands of someone who executes becomes a money printer. ideas without execution are expensive hobbies for smart people scared to look stupid. that's the trap. smart people protect their reputation for being smart. shipping something imperfect threatens that identity. so they delay forever. operators ship garbage. learn from the market. iterate. get paid while perfecting. you need speed and conviction, not perfect. confidence sells better than competence. always has. my genius friend will stay broke theorizing about businesses he never starts. operators with half his IQ are cashing out because they understood the assignment. speed of execution is the entire game.

Apple JUST quietly announced something that’s a lot BIGGER than it looks: "the Mini Apps Partner Program" Apple is admitting that the future of software is embedded, lightweight, vertical mini-apps distributed inside bigger app For founders who want to make $$ building apps: 1. Apple just legitimized the “superapp” model for the West. China has WeChat mini-programs. India has PhonePe Switch. The West has… nothing. Apple just opened the door. You can now run HTML/JS mini-apps inside a native host and earn 85% on qualifying purchases. That’s Apple-sanctioned platform piggybacking. 2. Distribution arbitrage becomes real again. You don’t need to convince users to download your app. Just partner with a host app and drop in a mini-app. This is a cheat code for early traction. Think: travel apps hosting niche tools, fitness apps hosting mini workouts, marketplaces hosting micro-utilities. 3. Apple is creating a new economy layer: “embedded SaaS.” Imagine: CRM mini-apps inside vertical tools. Math solver mini-apps inside education apps. Calendar mini-apps inside productivity apps. The TAM for tools that don’t need standalone installs just went vertical. 4. Developers get an 85% revenue share. This is Apple basically saying: “We want this ecosystem to grow, and we’re willing to cut our take rate.” When Apple lowers its cut, I pay attention because they see a platform shift coming. 5. AI makes this 10× more important. LLM-powered micro-apps (calculators, planners, agents, coaches, niche utilities) are tiny by design. They’re perfect mini-apps. Apple just created infrastructure for AI-native micro utilities to live inside bigger apps with built-in commerce. 6. Host apps become new “distribution landlords.” If you own an app with traffic, you become a platform. You can host mini-apps, take a cut, and build a developer ecosystem around you. It’s a new monetization model for existing apps with audiences. 7. This unlocks a wave of second-order opportunities. - Agencies helping apps become mini-app hosts - Mini-app dev shops - “Shopify for mini-apps” toolkits - Mini-app marketplaces - Analytics for mini-app performance - Discovery engines for mini-apps - I'll be dropping mini app ideas on @ideabrowser and @startupideaspod TLDR; Apple just turned every high-traffic app into a potential superapp and every indie developer into a potential platform partner. The App Store is becoming modular, composable, and layered. The next decade of consumer apps will look less like standalone products and more like ecosystems stitched together with mini-apps. This is quietly one of the biggest distribution unlocks in years.

Most people think sales is about “closing,” but it’s not. It’s about planting seeds until people are ready.

It’s not “quitting” if you’re walking away from a place that stopped seeing your value.