Insanely cool new innovation: @densityio's "adaptive cleaning" monitors which parts of your office are used, and sends cleaning people to those areas dynamically based on usage thresholds.

This is saving customers millions of dollars a year already... easily paying for the cost of installing Density's people counting software.

you see more in the link in the next tweet...
@densityio more: .density.io/blog/adaptive-…

Season Five of Succession: Rise to Power

8 episodes... Episode 1: "The Fallen Prince" The mini-series opens with Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong) in a self-imposed exile following his downfall in the "Succession" series finale. He's living a modest life, wrestling with guilt and regret.

This new waffle machine is a beast You set the type of waffle you’re making 🧇 I’m using buttermilk today

🧵 AI is going to nuke the bottom third of performers in jobs done on computers — even creative ones — in the next 24 months

White collar salaries are going to plummet to the average of the global work force & the speed at which the top performers can write prompts If you’re low to average at your job you need to get on these tools immediately, learn how to augment yourself, & invest massively in your ability to add new skills constantly

Companies are going to get dramatically smaller & more profitable, like Facebook, twitter, & others… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

O.H. in the Valley last night:

1/For the past decade a vocal minority of elites, with the easiest & highest-paying jobs, have vocally attacked capitalism while being the biggest beneficiaries of it

Those elites are now considered unnecessary & their jobs are being eliminated 2/I listened to this conversation and it was clear that there is a new culture war starting that leaders are very tuned into it.

Everyone asks, "who is doing essential work at this company?"

If you're not on that list, your position is eliminated one person said.

Might not be a popular opinion, but I think @andrewrsorkin should do this interview & hold @SBF_FTX to account for every detail of this “alleged” fraud 🙄

All of it will be admissible, & the @nytimes SBF coverage has been so embarrassing this is a real shot at redemption

https://twitter.com/andrewrsorkin/status/1595517635441090565

@andrewrsorkin should start with the massive political and media donations, grants, gifts and grift—in detail.

You gifted $tk to TK—what was your goal?

Name your top three critics today and what value they bring to your life Never forget the role of the critic #thenew

If you love what you do, get paid well, & wake up excited to do it every day, that’s winning

If you hate your job, comp sucks, & you loathe the thought of doing it, make a plan & find something new

Note: reality still applies, change can be hard &our industry has it REALLY easy We in tech, higher education, media, & finance live at a level of privilege and optionality that is historic in the history of humanity.

Yet we complain & argue while most of the world struggles silently, perplexed by our narcissistic machinations of how “trapped” we are.

charting uncharted territory: CPI 🚑, jobs 📈, mortgage rates 👀, unemployment 👏

🤷🤷🤷 Recommend: @collision interviewing Stanley Druckenmiller

Thanks Greg

I’m proud we dedicated the entire EP of @theallinpod to #RoeVWade

We had amazing experts on to deepen our understanding, & had a respectful, thoughtful, & forward-looking discussion

Listened to 10+ podcasts on RvW & they were all one-sided

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all…

https://twitter.com/gregorywilken/status/1523009643294851072

I do understand some in our community don’t want us doing single-topic episodes (or this one), but we are going to take chances with the format of the pod

Sometimes we will take on topics we find important but you may not… which is what is great about podcasts IMO. 🙏🏽

🧵 Startup fund-raising market update:

✅ Early-stage startups still raising money
✅ Angels, Seed Funds, & Syndicates still active

However… 🚩 Deals are taking 2-3x longer to close
👍 People who traded momentum & “social proof” for due diligence have started doing diligence again

This is healthy and good for everyone. So, who is clearing market and who I struggling?

A couple of thoughts on @CNNplus a day in:

1. @jaketapper's book club was a serviceable "magazine" style show. Way overproduced & would be much better if it was less edited & glossy.

A raw, longer-form podcast would have been a much better experience... I really like JT. 2. the live interface is clunky but not terrible (ok for 1.0).

You can ask questions in a more structured way than in a YouTube chat, but that's a mistake. You actually want a vibrant, fast-moving chat NOT a slow Q&A approval process.

Some ideas for #daos:

1/Tarantino DAO: raising $100m in order to inspire QT to develop 10 more projects (he said he would only do 10 movies)

These 10 can be produced, written, directed or otherwise approved by him

500k fans donate $200 each, everyone gets a profanity-laden NFT 2/Star Wars Sequels redo DAO: $1b raised by 10m fans to buy the rights to make a fan, Lucas, and @HamillHimself approved version of the Star Wars sequels

All members get their childhoods back.

My philosophy of startup investing (in 2021)

1/back as many great founders as you can, as early as possible
2/if their company fails, be the first investor in their next project
3/if their company grows more than 3x year-over-year keep investing until you reach 15%+ ownership Early stage can apply at our accelerator to work with me and my team for 20 weeks, meeting 1,000+ investors: launch.co/apply

Startups that are launched with some traction and apply for remotedemoday.com & meet 8,000 angel investors from thesyndicate.com

1/🧵People quitting instead of coming back to offices is very real

Amazing for startups who will recruit the most talented folks who are well paid (some might say overpaid) at big companies—but who will take significantly less in order to work from home #remotework #WorkFromHome 2/Executives have figured out how to manage remote workers so well, that they will need 20% less of them. basically, low performers “have nowhere to hide” in a remote world where folks do an SOD and EOD (start of day and end of day) on SLACK

1/Been getting a ton of questions from founders about the $4b Clubhouse valuation

Here's how to do the math.

-- CH will make ~$10 a year per users
-- With 5-10m users that's $50-100m in revenue
-- 10x revenue is $250m to $1b in value

so why $4b?? read on ... 2/When a startup is growing fast in a hot market people give credit for 2-5x their performance in order to "get the deal"

That surges CH's valuation to $500m to $5b--in this case it landed at $4b

This makes no sense... unless you invested in Facebook, Uber, or Google!

So..

Ignore the critics

"In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment." "We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so."

1/Most folks don’t have a startup, they have an *idea* or *plan* for a startup

no one invests in ideas or plans today

I haven’t seen ideas/plans get funded for ~20 years

So what gets funded?

— Growing Startups
— World-class products
— Track Records
— ... then everything else 2/Investors pick their inventory in three phases.... First, they look for “the chart.” Basically, you’re growing ~20% a month, consistently, for ~six months

After VCs can’t find any more investments with the chart they move on to the second tier startups....

Podcasting tips form someone who has recorded 1,200 episodes and who hosts 2 of the top 10 tech podcasts:

1. Audio quality is critical. You need the best hardware, software, and post production. get this perfect or don’t bother starting a podcast. 2. Video is not as important as audio, & it takes 20x as much effort to do a quality video podcast as an audio one

Recording, editing, storing, sharing video is expensive & time consuming

A great audio podcast is ~$500
A great video podcast is thousands

Stick to audio.

1/USA #VaccineStrategy improving

💉 600k+ shots in arms today
📈 2.7% vaccinated
😷~100-125m have had Covid (estimate)
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~135m OTOS ("on the other side" -- my estimate)

With 1m infected & 1m vaccinated a day = 2m OTOS a day

~Feb 15th we will have 50%+ of the USA "OTOS" NY & California, the worst-performing states, announce less precious vaccine deployments. 24-hour, @friedberg-style rollouts coming soon.

NYC: gothamist.com/news/nycs-firs…

1/I’ve embraced remote work completely like all tech folks have been forced too, & I’m afraid & inspired that the gains are so significant for employees that many/most will not go back to offices

This is going to lead to a crazy, competitive chess board for funds & startups. 2/Some companies will be able to draw top talent and demand they come to the office (think: Apple, FB, Google)

Companies that do real-world things like build cars or rocketships, will obviously be able to draw people to an office

For knowledge workers??