Tag: Tech
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“I think you can scale to $1 billion ARR without adding any additional products.” That’s what a VC at a top firm told one of my companies recently. He’s right. Many early stage startups keep releasing one product after another. But if you’ve chosen your product and market well, you…
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You need to learn 2,000 characters to read Japanese. This morning, I built an app to teach me with Base44. In just 6 minutes, I had an amazing app up and running! Designing an App to Teach Me Kanji I need a flashcard app to help me learn Japanese characters…
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Off-the-shelf email agents draft nonsensical replies that sound nothing like me. So I built my own… My new Grok Automation is saving me serious time managing my inbox. The key: giving Grok extremely specific instructions with examples. The Problem With Email Agents Tons of different tools claim to manage your…
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+ Agentic Tools, Agents, Agents AI agent, AI, AI Agent, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Entrepreneur, Startups, Tech, Technology+
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The 0 to $100 million stories only happen in AI infra. What about the rest of the economy? You can still build an amazing business while growing more slowly. You just need to do things a little differently… Building In a Boring Industry A while back, I met with a…
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“Missionaries, not mercenaries.” How many times have you heard that? But before he started a career in technology, my friend Jesse was a real missionary. And in Mexico, he had a terrifying experience. I’ll let Jesse tell you the rest… I was staring straight down the barrel of an AK-47.…
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Ever dreamed about building a viral app? My buddy Jesse Bray did it. Jesse had an idea for an app called TimTalk — a hillbilly Twitter. People loved the demo…but building a scalable app proved more difficult than Jesse expected… We Won $5,000 for an App That Didn’t Exist How…
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Alibaba claims that its new Qwen 3.8-Max is second only to Fable 5. In my testing, the new Qwen excels at coding and customer support. But ask it about Tiananmen Square, and it suddenly shuts down. Here’s where Qwen performs well, and where it seizes up… Round #1: Building a…
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+ AI, Alibaba, Artificial Intelligence, Entrepreneur, Founders, LLM, Qwen, Startups, Tech, Vibecoding+
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“Who is Francis, and why is he in my DM’s?” I’m not waiting around for the next unicorn to fall in my lap. So you might be getting a message from me soon… Investing in one of the Top Engineers at SpaceX Last fall, I saw something wild: a former…
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A founder on Reddit just closed his $1 million pre-seed. Jealous? Don’t be. He’s waking up at 3:00am, panicking… Before he raised money, this was a fun project. Now, people are counting on him and there’s serious money at stake. He’s not alone. One of the most successful founders I’ve…
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