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"Pets vs. Cattle" in the Agent Age

Agents are the new SaaS. I’ve been deploying more and more agents across enterprises, individual family offices, and in my own personal life.  All That Is Old Is New Again It feels like mobile in 2010. The future is here, it’s just not distributed yet.

Three Takeaways from Recent Anthropic Research (Early 2026)

It's February of 2026. I never expected in my wildest dreams that we would be living in the world we are today: I'm talking to my computers more than I talk to humans (even while being back at one of the most social places on earth

How to Make a Great Pitch Deck

A lot of aspiring entrepreneurs come to me asking for advice building a great pitch deck. These are Notes I Wish I Had When I Started These are the notes that I wish I had when I started out fundraising. They come from an email thread titled "Pitch Deck

Customer Experience and Operational Savings Win-Wins in Service Operations: Feedback for Verizon's Customer Support Operations

The internet is filled with abhorrent telecom customer support stories. Among other places, Reddit leaves no telecom unscathed. My recent experience attempting to get a faulty phone fixed with Verizon was not exception. I have a lot of empathy for the customer support reps on the other end of the

How to Ace Your First Year at Harvard Business School

How do you ace your first year of classes at Harvard Business School ? One of the most valuable skills at HBS is learning how to "move forward" the discussion in a group of people through the case method. Participation ≠ Being Right Your goal of participating in class

Local Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Voice Cloning with mlx-audio

Text to Speech (TTS) is Having a Moment Text to speech (TTS) is getting really good. The latest models read text naturally and can clone voices with under a minute of reference audio. What's even more exciting are new models and frameworks that allow you to do this

How to Install the Official Atlassian MCP Server for Claude Code (Bitbucket, JIRA, and Confluence)

Below are simple instructions to install the official Atlassian Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to access Bitbucket, JIRA, and Confluence servers from Claude Code. Instructions to install official Atlassian MCP to Claude Code 1) Install Claude Code following Anthropic's instructions : npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code 2) Create a

How to Name Your Startup

Naming a company can be frustrating, especially as common domain names keep dwindling. A friend shared a helpful process that he's used for consumer brands in the past. I've found it's also helpful for any nascent company or brand: Brand Naming Exercise Part 1:

The Tech Is Not The Moat: What 39 Harvard MBAs Taught Me About AI, Startup Building, and 10x Founders

I keep being impressed by the new ways I see people using AI and how these ideas have yet to go mainstream. Prototyping with AI at HBS November 2024, Professor Jeff Bussgang , Professor Christina Wallace , and I taught a hands-on workshop in the Launching Technology Ventures (LTV) class at Harvard

How to redirect a Cloudflare domain to another URL

I hope this saves you some time too if you found this searching for a simple solution! Context Every time I find myself trying to re-learn something I'm taking the time to document. This is one simple example: I'm a fan of Cloudflare domains because they

Commercial Opportunities in a Renaissance of Self-Hosting

The basement data center serving this blog post I’m still pondering on whether there’s a venture-backable opportunity in the data center sitting in my basement, but the last time I felt this curious about a technical shift (besides LLMs) was when we blew the circuits in

How to Use ChatGPT with Any Google Spreadsheet

Automating everyday manual tasks has been one of the highest-leverage productivity hacks I've found for LLMs. Nowhere have I seen more manual tasks than in spreadsheets (I even cofounded a company to help save biotech accountants from some of this manual work). One of my favorite applications is

Is Cassava Sciences Underestimating Their Phase 3 Clinical Trials? (October 2024)

Cassava Sciences is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing several late-stage treatments for Alzheimer's. A friend recently heard about Cassava in the news and asked me if I had any insights based on the recent biotech data I've been exploring. I thought it was a good opportunity

Is OpenAI Worth $150B? (September 2024)

Bill Trench had a great question in his recent application for a new investor role at First Round Capital : Would you invest in OpenAI at a $150B valuation today? Why or why not? There are a lot of opinions going on about OpenAI, but I've struggled to find

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