I didn’t learn systems at Microsoft. I learned them on a pig farm.

Feeding schedules. Health checks. Market timing.

Farming taught me the same thing startups did:
If you want to scale, you need systems.

Here are 5 lessons from the farm that built my operating mindset: 1. Systems scale. Hope doesn’t.

We had routines for feeding, breeding, and selling. Everything ran on a schedule.

No system = dead pigs.

No system in your startup? Slower and more expensive outcome.

Look at this guy.

Nobel Prize winner. Chess prodigy. CEO of Google's DeepMind.

He just made the boldest prediction in tech history: AGI as smart as humans will arrive within 10 years.

But here's what shocked me about his timeline: Demis Hassabis isn't your typical tech CEO making wild predictions.

At 13, he ranked 2nd worldwide in chess for his age group.

He built legendary video games, then got a PhD in neuroscience.

His track record is extraordinary.

Everyone thinks I'm living the dream life...

• 3 full-time staff running every single aspect of my life
• Can travel whenever I want
• 8 companies built

But every successful person eventually faces this same dark truth: Most people would kill for this position.

The calendar shows 50 hours a week of pure chaos.

Yet every morning, I wake up and choose this madness again.

There's a reason successful entrepreneurs can't stop building:

Your 40s will destroy your happiness.

You'll work 60-hour weeks while your kids need money and your parents need care.

Ray Dalio calls this the "midlife squeeze" - and it breaks most people.

His leverage strategy that changes everything: Most people think life gets easier as you gain experience and resources.

The research shows the opposite.

Happiness hits its lowest point between ages 45-50 across 132 countries.

This isn't coincidence - it's a predictable life pattern that few see coming:

I started my last 3 companies for less than $1000

Each runs 24/7 with fewer than 5 employees.

Total tech cost: $427/month (vs $5,200 for one employee).

Here's the AI toolkit that's redefining what modern entrepreneurship means in 2025: The startup game has completely changed.

Remember hustling for investors, burning through cash, building huge teams? That era is dead.

Today's smartest founders use AI to replace entire departments.

I've tested this firsthand, and the results are mind-blowing:

At 47, I discovered how to optimize testosterone, lose weight and feel 25 again.

No Rx. No injections. Just pure science.

• Hair regrowth
• Shocking fat loss
• Unstoppable energy

Here's the blueprint that transformed my entire life:
It started with a wake-up call.

At 47, I hit a wall that no amount of coffee could fix. Constant fatigue dragged me down.

My waistline expanded despite eating the same as always. Even my hair was noticeably thinning, and my confidence went with it.

Sound familiar?

The most powerful empty chair at Trump's inauguration:

Nvidia's CEO was "too busy" to attend.

2 weeks later, a closed-door meeting revealed why.

Here's how Jensen Huang outmaneuvered Silicon Valley's elite: January 2025: Trump's inauguration was tech's red carpet event.

Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Cook, Pichai – all front and center.

But the CEO of the world's most valuable chipmaker was absent.

Where was Jensen Huang when everyone watched Washington?

Investors decide in the first 3 minutes if they'll fund you.

Not based on your product or traction.

But on how you answer one specific question about the future.

After witnessing hundreds of startup failures, here's the fundraising secret they don't want you to know: In this week's Founder Mode episode, @jasonshafton and I talk with Andreas Homer ( @Andreas_dre )

He's led BD teams at Microsoft and now partnerships at Shopify.

His superpower? Asking for what he wants with clarity and conviction.

This approach transformed his fundraising...

In 2006, one man wrote a memo that destroyed his career.

Silicon Valley blacklisted him.
Yahoo executives mocked him.
Wall Street ignored him.

Then Yahoo collapsed exactly as he predicted.

Now he's back with an even bigger prediction: In 2003, Garlinghouse joined Yahoo as SVP of Communications.

His mission was clear: revolutionize how people communicate online.

He took charge of Yahoo Mail, Messenger, and Flickr - products used by millions daily.

But beneath the surface, he spotted a critical flaw in the company's strategy...

The $100B secret that could change AI forever:

Bitcoin miners discovered something that Google and OpenAI missed.

It's so powerful that one company's revenue surged 35% in 90 days.

Here's what everyone is completely missing about Bitcoin's future: Bitcoin's network has evolved far beyond a simple payment system.

It represents the largest concentration of computational power ever created.

With millions of specialized mining machines across the globe.

Each contributes to an unprecedented decentralized computing network.

In 4 hours, a Venmo co-founder's token went from $18M to $250M.

Without spending a dollar on marketing.

One trader turned $1,592 into over $1M.

Here's how a payment app legend just disrupted social media: First, some context.

Sam Lessin and Iqram Magdon-Ismail, Venmo co-founders, are behind this project.

But their latest venture isn't about payments at all.

It's about something much bigger that's happening in tech right now...

I've built companies in Web0, Web1, Web2, Web3 and now AI.

The old rules don't work anymore.

The next wave will create more wealth than all previous combined.

Here's what you need to know: 20 years ago, nobody used the internet in their business.

10 years ago, nobody used social media in their business.

Today, we're at another inflection point.

But this time, it's different...

The wealthy elite have a new obsession:

It's not crypto.
It's not AI.

It's the one thing money couldn't buy (until now).

Here's how they're trying to live forever: Let me paint you a picture of the near future:

The Great Wealth Transfer is about to inject $160-225 billion into crypto.

Millennials will hold 5x more wealth by 2030 through inheritances.

And Gen Z? 55% are already crypto investors.

But here's what everyone's missing:

The President just created $75 billion in market value overnight.

Not with money printing.

Not with stocks or bonds.

But with a cryptocurrency launch that will change the entire financial system.

Here's what's really happening: For the last 17 years, crypto has been stuck in regulatory limbo.

Major banks wouldn't touch it. Fortune 500s stayed away. Even crypto companies were afraid to launch tokens.

Why? One agency stood in the way: The SEC.

The mere threat of enforcement killed innovation.

But everything just changed overnight:

In 2024, a groundbreaking protocol is being built that could redefine how we use the internet.

This isn't just another blockchain or crypto project.

This is something far more fundamental - a complete reimagining of infrastructure.

But here's what makes it different: The current internet wasn't built for today's demands.

It was designed in the 1960s for simple file sharing between universities.

Now we're trying to run complex systems on aging architecture.

But something unexpected was about to happen...

He had it all at Goldman Sachs:

• Elite position
• Dream salary
• Peak of his career

Then in 2005, he walked away at age 36.

What he built next would transform Wall Street forever: In 2005, Raoul Pal was living the dream.

As Goldman's head of hedge fund sales in Europe, he was at the pinnacle of finance.

Corner office. Seven-figure salary. The respect of Wall Street's elite.

But something was eating at him...

Look at this guy.

He spotted what others missed and changed technology forever.

His solution processes more data per second than Google, Meta, and Amazon combined.

It powers over 1,000 projects and handles 50,000 transactions per second.

Here's the story of Anatoly Yakovenko: Born in Moscow in the late 1970s, Yakovenko's journey began far from tech.

After graduating from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 2000 he dove deep into the tech world, fascinated by system optimization.

Little did he know this would reshape technology forever: