hacker, researcher, writer, entrepreneur • currently Anthropic • early Replit
AI turns products from deterministic functions into probabilistic systems. That requires expanding old playbooks (SLOs, funnels, siloed finance), and reasoning in terms of trajectories, Minimum Viable Intelligence thresholds, and data as company operating system.
A solo operator can now launch a $1b business powered by ai. Our economy's critical dividing line is no longer skill or education it's will.
What will the next wave of generational companies look like? What’s the shape of fund returners going to be, in the next decade? How will they affect startups formation and funds performance?
2023 has been one of the most consequential years of my life, but it came with a hefty price tag. In the first 5 months of last year…
Some big news to share. I’ve been granted an O1 visa for extraordinary abilities, and i'm moving to NYC. Who would have thought that a random guy from a small Italian town would end up living in the US? and yet!
2022 has been wild. Saying that the last 9 months have been intense might be an understatement. Reflecting on my 2022 at Replit.
I have yet to find a sucessful ed-tech model that works at scale. Issue abound. Often it comes down to how ed-tech growsn and how it monetizes its audience. Let's start with growth:
This is an old story about love, hacking, and bad UX. An Odyssey of getting cut off my Instagram account, fighting to get it back, and ending up falling in love.
How a blog post brought me into one of the most talented group of hackers I've ever met: Replit.
Replit is blurring the lines between localhost and staging environments, between coding and shipping, thinking and making, learning and building. The Bundling of Software Development.
EOY 2021 update: We sold Uniwhere (newsletter).
Some pragmatic ideas on how to decide what to study during college, tailored to the job market of the 2020s.
Can we move our development environment from our local machines to a remote server, and interact with it through a browser-mediated IDE?
That time when I beat the Berlin rental market by scraping every single rental offer in town.
Missive Q1-2021: Strategic Life Planning
One of the biggest pitfalls of OKRs is that they make life… a little bit stressful. After using them for the better part of 2020, I decided to make some changes. Enter: TAHs.
Online content makes edutainment the norm among curious and intelligent people, who don't realize that they aren't actually learning what they think they are.
Founders want speed. Devs want careful planning. The tension can be looked as a variation of the exploration-exploitation trade-off, and its mathematical solution shows an Ebb and a Flow of Product Development in early stage startups.
Why even bother writing online?
How to model virality, word-of-mouth and user cohorts when working on a financial plan for fundraising? (Spreadsheet attached!)
First-time CTOs with a good dev background and no startup experience prioritize scalability and robustness over deployment speed. A few ideas to change approach.
That time when I used data analysis and AI to grow my Instagram account