Anthropic's CEO claims AI hallucinates less than humans.

Bold statement.

So I decided to test it by feeding the same FAKE theories to ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to see which one calls me out first.

The results shocked me 🧵 I created two completely fabricated stories about Elon Musk from his biography.

Both were detailed, plausible-sounding, but 100% fake.

Then I fed them to each AI model to see who would catch my lies.

This SaaS startup was burning VC money with no traction.

Their solution? A radical experiment combining 4 sales roles into one.

18 months later: $1.5B valuation and 8,000+ customers including OpenAI.

How a desperate move created Silicon Valley's hottest new job 🧵 Clay today:

- Valuation: $500M → $1.5B in 18 months
- Revenue growth: 10x in 2023, 6x in 2024
- 8,000+ customers including OpenAI & Anthropic

The shift?

They ignored the usual SaaS playbook, and did what no investor would’ve recommended..

No one has probably noticed this before...

But a $10B family-owned business (LEGO) and a $3T company (Apple) have something in common.

Both businesses were on the verge of bankruptcy due to the same reason once.

And they saved themselves by doing the same thing. How? 🧵 Let's talk about Apple first.

In 1985, the board fired Steve Jobs and made John Sculley the CEO.

Reason being Jobs would focus on making "perfect" products instead of profitability.

On top of that, the Lisa computer was a commercial failure.

This company hasn't had a manager in 65 years.

They've produced 5,600 patents and $4 billion in revenue with ZERO formal hierarchy.

Employees choose their own work and set each other's pay.

And they're outperforming every competitor in their industry.

A thread🧵 Gore's achievements are one to pay attention to:

- Over 13,000 employees
- $350,000 revenue per employee
- Been on Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work For" every year since the list began in 1984

And they have achieved that with ZERO traditional management layer.

The question is HOW?

In 2013, a 21-year-old emailed Mark Cuban from a Motel 6 after watching Shark Tank.

Cuban replied in 45 minutes.

That cold email eventually led to 230M+ in funding an AI company that predicts laws before Congress.

How a 5-line cold email started it all 🧵 That 21-year-old was Tim Hwang. At 17, he was elected to Maryland's Board of Education, overseeing a $4 billion budget.

At 19, he founded the National Youth Association with 750,000 members.

But his work on Obama's campaign exposed a government problem nobody had solved...

(Tim with NVIDIA's Jenson Huang 👇🏻)

Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos.
They all scaled by thinking backwards.

I used the same principle to grow my startup ColdIQ from $0 to $4.5M ARR in 2 years.

It’s not about working harder.
It’s about engineering outcomes.

The system behind 10x growth: 🧵 It’s called Theory of Change.
A framework to reverse engineer outcomes.

Start by asking:

- What must happen? (terminal impact)
- What must happen before that? (pre-conditions)
- What triggers it? (Causal actions)

Thinking backwards from impact to actions is Theory of Change.

In 1996, Andrew Grove, Intel's legendary former CEO, warned about the silent killer of great companies:

Strategic Inflection Points.

Moments when markets shift: silently at first, then suddenly.

AI is one of those moments.

Here's what Grove saw that others missed:🧵
During an MIT lecture, Grove described Strategic Inflection Points as a 10x force.

A shift so fundamental, your entire business model may no longer work.

The real danger?
These shifts arrive quietly.

By the time you see the full picture, you’re already behind.

Working under Sam Altman showed me why most founders fail at scaling.

I applied his operational thinking to scale my startup ColdIQ from $0 to $4M ARR in just 2 years.

The counterintuitive lessons you won't find elsewhere: 🧵 Lesson #1: "A startup should perpetually operate at the edge of instability."

Most founders try to build perfect systems. But operational perfection is actually premature optimization that kills innovation.

The tension of "controlled chaos" is where breakthroughs happen.

In 2008, Airbnb's founders were 72 hours from giving up.

$30k in credit card debt, 7 rejections from investors, and selling cereal boxes just to stay afloat.

Today? $100B+ valuation.

The turning point? A single email.

Here's how one message saved what became a tech giant:🧵 Airbnb (then "AirBed & Breakfast") had already launched TWICE with minimal traction.

They sought $150K for 10% of the company, valuing it at a modest $1.5M.

5 investors explicitly rejected them.
2 didn't even bother responding.

What happened next changed everything.