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Hey, I'm Joshua Eidelman, Founder and CEO of NeoWork. Throughout my career, I've explored the hidden challenges founders face. From creating an AR startup to working at Bird during hypergrowth, I've had countless discussions about founders' struggles.
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Why He Wants His Employees to Question Him | Tonner Jackson @ Rare Days (opens the original)
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He shot 500 shots a day, 7 to 8 in the morning, on a shooting machine in his high school gym. If he skipped it, the anxiety going into the weekend was unbearable. He still remembers his friend Adam offering to pick him up on a Friday night and having to say no because he had shots to get up. Looking back he calls it a little toxic. He also credits it for the one thing he thinks every founder has to do out loud, which is name the trade-offs. Tonner Jackson is 35 and the founder of Rare Days, a ro
95% of AI Pilots Die for One Reason | Brian M. Green, Health Vision AI (opens the original)
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Brian M. Green got laid off, and instead of going straight back into the market he asked himself what he was actually good at. He'd spent decades on the data side of things, a master's in urban planning he never practiced with, a PhD candidate in public policy and health, and a long habit of asking whether an intervention actually helped anyone. So he hung the consulting shingle back up and pointed it at the least fundable thing in enterprise AI: the layer underneath the thing everybody wants to
Why He Thinks the Big AI Labs Don’t Survive to 2030 | Alok Aggarwal @ Scry AI (opens the original)
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In 1993 the CEO of a paper mill in Portland, Maine came down to IBM Research and asked for help. Alok Aggarwal’s team told him the truth, which was that they had no idea how paper gets made. They spent three months learning, then built a scheduling system out of agents and meta-learning, words that would not become fashionable for another thirty years. The mill improved by about 1.5 percent, worth roughly nine million dollars a year. Nobody at IBM Global Services understood the thing well enough
Why He Thinks the AI Labs Are Playing the Wrong Game | Rishi Bhatnagar @ Quaeris (opens the original)
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Almost everyone who climbs Kilimanjaro stops at Stella Point and calls it the summit. It isn't. The actual highest point in Africa is Uhuru Peak, roughly ten blocks further on, and Rishi Bhatnagar says that ten-block walk was the hardest forty minutes of his life. What kept him going was picturing his grandkids asking whether he made it, and having to tell them grandpa quit early. This is his fourth startup. Two worked, one didn't. He started out as a credit rating analyst at an agency now part
What Entrepreneurship Cost Him and Why He Calls It His Best Investment, with Marco Benitez @ ROOK (opens the original)
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Marco Benitez was preparing to move his family from Mexico to Switzerland for the next chapter of a successful Big Pharma career when his wife asked him four words: “Why are you so sad?” He already knew the answer. The small fitness product he was building outside work made him feel more alive than the career he had spent years creating. Marco left Roche and went all-in on RookMotion, a wearable and fitness platform that eventually served more than 150 gyms. His motivation was unusual for a foun
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